In Unity There is Strength -- Thank God for Our Presbytery

 

THE PRESBYTERY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
“Serving Jesus Christ by equipping congregations for ministry and mission.”

January 2, 2012

Dear Pastors, Session Members and Members of the Congregations of Our Presbytery:

              Thank you for assisting us in our efforts to serve God in our Presbytery through the work of the Committee on Ministry (COM) this year.  It has been a privilege for our committee to serve with you in our service to Christ in this time and place.  This past year has been a time of considerable change and some struggle.  But there have also been many encouraging things and God’s light shines in the darkness.  When God’s light comes, darkness runs.

                With your help, and with the concerted effort of the members of the Committee on Ministry, I believe the COM has done a good job of meeting the challenges that have come before us.  Certainly, it has been our united intention to do our best to help the churches of our presbytery in their ministries, and to preserve the peace, purity and unity of our presbytery and the Presbyterian Church, USA.

                I have been blessed to serve with a gifted committee.  The Lord brought together a great group of elders and ministers to serve for such a time as this on the Committee on Ministry of the North Central Iowa Presbytery.  As we always hope with the committees of our denomination, each person brought strength to our whole.

                And what a blessing it is to have the support of our amazing staff – Pastor to the Presbytery David Feltman, Stated Clerk Blake Wood, Administrative Assistant Kaylene Hoskins and Secretary Vicki Thordsen, as spiritual and polity advisers, and special guides.  They are an awesome team.

                Now it is time for me to step down as COM Moderator, and leave the committee, along with a number of other faithful members.  We will miss serving with those who remain, but excellent people are coming on, as our committee renews itself.  Our polity provides for such needed transfusions of ideas and personalities.  And Dr. Marcia Rich, a remarkable leader, will be a tremendous new moderator.

                I have fully enjoyed my six years on COM.  From the view of COM moderator I have seen in new ways the abiding values of our Presbyterian connectedness, the scriptural strength of our polity, and the richness of the fellowship we enjoy in this presbytery. Every church in this presbytery has great things and good news to rejoice about.  I pray we will all stay together, bound together in love, as there is significant spiritual strength in our unity in Christ.

                May we all have open minds and open hearts to the Holy Spirit’s leading as pray and listen together, to God and to each other, as we move boldly into the tomorrow God has for us. 

IN CHRIST,

The Reverend Dr. S. Glenn Wilson

Moderator, Committee on Ministry

glennwilsonnusa@hotmail.com