Children's Ministry is an important and vibrant ministry in our church and we are blessed with many young families and children.

Recently, Rachel Thurman tendered her resignation as the director of our Day School. She has served in this capacity for some time and has chosen another career path. We thank her for her efforts and wish her the very best in her new career.

In evaluating whom we would choose to replace Rachel, we looked at the qualifications that we wanted in that position and determined that the person who could best serve there was already on staff, our Children's Minister, Kathy Carter. The Youth Cluster of Elders met and prayed and decided to meet with her about this. She took some time to pray and talk to her family about it, and has decided to become our Day School Director and will remain our Nursery Director.

That means our Preschool and Elementary Departments will be handled by other people. Tina Brown has been our Elementary Department Coordinator, part-time, for some time and will retain that position.

We will begin seeking a part-time Coordinator for our Preschool Department. This will be a different arrangement; we have had a full-time Children's Minister for some time. We felt that having the Nursery and the Day School under one umbrella had benefits, as well as dividing that big group and age-span under three different leaders.

We ask for your prayers as we begin this new arrangement, for Kathy, for Tina and the new Coordinator to be named later, and Rachel as she begins her new career.

~ David Tipton, on behalf of the elders
Sunday, August 16, 2009