FEBRUARY | VOLUME 2023 | ISSUE 1
CROSS CURRENTS UPCOMING IN WORSHIP DESIRING ETERNITY:
A Three-Week Series with Jesus and His prayer in John 17 February 5 Longing for Life | John 17:1-5 February 12 Longing for Holiness | John 17:6-19 February 19 Longing for Unity | John 17:20-25
I AM:
A Lenten Sermon Series dwelling in Jesus’ statements of identity in the Gospel of John. February 22 - Ash Wednesday Worship Service - 6:30 pm - Sanctuary Before Abraham Was, I Am | John 8:48-59 February 26 I Am the Bread of Life | John 6 March 5 I Am the Light of the World | John 8
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FROM PASTOR PETE Greetings St. Andrew’s! A couple months ago, I was trying to explain the Presbyterian process steps of calling an installed pastor to someone in the church. The more I spoke, the more confused they became. While what seemed to me a clear and straightforward explanation about the structures and steps involved, I might as well have been speaking to them in Swahili. Mungu akubariki! (This means God bless you!) Then I remembered a way to communicate that I first learned when I was leading a Middle School youth ministry: Draw a picture and tell a story! I’ve included here a diagram that I first drew on a post-it note, to explain the structure of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. If we were to think of the church as a bunch of large and small groups, the Congregation would be the largest group. The Congregation has the formal authority and responsibility to approve the calls of installed pastors. But how can the largest group of people possibly make such an important decision? All jokes aside, the Presbyterian answer to any question like this is: by forming a committee!
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