Dear Church,
I am pleased to announce that Alan Cook has agreed to come on board as a short term Part-Time Interim Director of Age Level Ministries. This is a huge blessing to our church and I hope you will join me in expressing your gratitude to him!
As Alan returns in this short term part time interim role it is important that we recognize he is not “returning” what he used to do!
Alan has very generously agreed to bring his skills, experience and expertise to support our children’s, family, youth, and young adult ministry areas on a part time basis. The addition of his skills and expertise will allow us to focus on training, equipping, supporting, and nurturing our lay volunteers in these areas. Further Alan will allow us to do some important ministry needs assessments with our families to help us shape impactful ministries going forward. Finally Alan will work in youth and young adult ministry to support parents, and prepare for our next generation of youth engagement and ministry. All of Alan’s work will be to lay the foundation for our future ministry. The short term nature of this work will allow our church leadership to continue to discern the best permanent staffing solution(s) for our ministry needs and proceed with hiring in this complex time.
As Alan undertakes this important work in our midst we must remember that Alan is still retired! Alan’s time interim time with us will be precious and limited. Our work is to gratefully receive what Alan is able to do while being very mindful and careful that we respect the limited short term and interim nature of his work with us. I cannot stress enough how important it is for all of us to embrace this gift and respect it’s boundaries.
I am excited to work with Alan and with all of you as we continue through this difficult ministry moment together.
Peace
Pastor Mark