We had a pretty good turn out with one new pastor arriving, Dick Tietjen from Grace Lutheran. Great to have you and your 25 years of ministry in South Tacoma with us Dick. In addition to Dick, we had seven other ministers/elders present: Jim and Jeff from Celebration Fellowship, John from Green Pastures, myself from Manitou, and Kaj from Puget Sound Christian Center and Bruce who is an elder/lay leader at Grace Lutheran.
We had planned to discuss two questions, but only had time for the first question which was, "What is a current struggle and joy in your ministry?" It was good to hear updates and opportunities from folks. One of the items we spent some good time discussion was John's question about how to best approach marginally involved couples seeking to get married. Thanks for raising that question John.
Since we didn't have time to get to the 2nd question, we decided to post it on the blogspot, (which is located at www.sotacministers.blogspot.com) and start getting comments on it. The question surrounds an initial 'agenda statement' for the group. It goes like the following:
"As ministers in South Tacoma, we desire to develop trust between one another so that when God presents us with an opportunity or challenge that is uniquely suited for us to collectively engage that we would be united enough to faithfully do so."
What do you think about this statement? What would you change? Add? Remove? Feel free to comment.
We decided to take April off from meeting and hold our next gathering on the first Wednesday in May which is May 6 at 8:30 at Manitou Park Presbyterian.
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