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About Us  | Developing characteristics of the church, and my unique gifts, skills and experiences The church God has called me to serve with can be described as being and/or becoming: Christ-centered, Biblically grounded, evangelical, reformed, and conservative/orthodox in theology, passionate for the presence of God, manifest in a vibrant life of praise and worship, missions focused and service oriented with a heart for the surrounding community and the world, and dynamically purpose driven in ministry. In our journey of faith, we are together: growing in Christ to know Christ and make Him known, being and becoming equipped, empowered, and anointed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit for ministry, glorifying and enjoying God, witnessing and experiencing God’s healing grace, and devoting ourselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, the sacraments, and prayer. We are embodying Christ in community for the glory of God and the advancement of God’s kingdom in our midst. With the breadth of my background in theology, music, theatre and the arts, broadcasting media, technology and business, God has uniquely equipped and prepared me for pastoral leadership in the church committed to reaching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ in today’s multimedia fluent society. Anointed by the Holy Spirit with the gifts of preaching and teaching, my experience through seminary and continuing church service fit me to exercise my gifts further in pastoral ministry. Having served as a chaplain in the medical setting, my skills in pastoral care are suited for collaborative ministries of compassion, including serving as one among other pastoral leaders in Stephen Ministry. |
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD...
The Company of Pastors'  Quote for the Day: "After theology, there is no art that can be placed on a level with music, for besides theology, music is the only art capable of affording peace and joy to the heart." — Martin Luther http://www.pcusa.org/pastorselders/dailyquote#23 (September 2006)
| Leadership style The style of leadership we aspire toward can be described as collegial, prayerful, pastoral, incarnational, and professional, with a team-oriented approach. We endeavor to partner with others called in ministry, seeking God’s face through the collective discerning of individuals sharing in leadership. The college of teaching and ruling Elders on Session serving in concert with Deacons and other spiritual leaders offer a body of leadership with a broad array of gifts, skills, and experience, providing spiritual direction for the church. In view of these, we employ professional skills and apply our experience from business in the corporate arena to render apt supervision within a pastoral environment conducive to bearing fruitful ministry and spiritual growth. Setting and monitoring concrete goals with confidence in leadership, abilities, and proficiencies to accomplish prayerfully discerned objectives, we entrust one another to God’s power that is at work within us, knowing that in our weakness, God is also strong. As a parent of six children, promoting effective communication, mutual understanding, and clarity of boundaries with well-defined purpose in our deliberations are important for me when leading groups and supervising others. Approaching life and work with attentiveness to God’s leading from moment to moment, we encourage looking for God ordained opportunities to come alongside others to help support, encourage and excite each other with vision toward the greater works God has for us in the work of ministry to God’s glory. | Key theological issues currently facing the church and society, shaping our ministry As postmodern ideologies pervade the media in the new millennium, the key theological issues facing the church and society revolve around the notion of the existence of Truth as absolute. When relative truth and tolerance are deemed as axioms embraced to the extreme, even to the point of absurdity, a truth claim such as this is viewed as undesirably exclusive. Yet, The Truth is, in a sense, radically inclusive. As one song lyric goes, “Truth has a Name: Jesus.” Jesus said, “I AM The Way, The Truth, and The Life; no one comes to [God] the Father except through me.” This exerts a strong proposition that all are invited to consider, confronting any idea raised against the knowledge of God with The Truth that sets us free. Speaking The Truth in Love, we take captive every thought to obey Christ as Christ’s ambassadors entrusted with the ministry of reconciliation. How this ministry is shaped in the 21st century’s missional context is now being discerned in the post-Christendom environs of society as we see God transforming and liberating God’s people from denominationalism’s vestiges to the new wineskins of today’s emergent Church. “See, I AM doing a new thing! Do you not perceive it?” How we participate in what God is doing anew while keeping and obeying the core Truth God has given us in the riches of reformed tradition will be key to our experience of God shaping our ministry in the season of heeding the Lord’s call upon us. In this, we look forward to God’s better future. |
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