December 2022
Dear Starling Avenue Friends, Thank you! Thank you for the warm welcome that you gave me when I was with you in worship last month. Thank you for the honor of calling me as your next pastor. Thank you for a wonderful Sunday. I am looking forward to our ministry together. It feels like a forever ago since I met you. And it feels like it will be another forever before we see each other again. We have waited a forever and we must wait some more. It is perhaps appropriate that we are doing all this waiting during Advent – the season of waiting. In my Advent reading, I have been reminded that our waiting should not be passive, but active. We should be preparing ourselves to welcome the Christ Child once again. Writer David Davis adds that “Advent is a season to boldly lean into God’s future unafraid.” These things are true about Advent. These things are also true about waiting for our ministry together to begin. As we endure this prolonged season of waiting, I trust that you will join me and actively prepare to boldly and courageously lean into the future that God has for us together at Starling Avenue Baptist Church! Looking forward to seeing you in January! May the gifts of Advent – hope, peace, love, and joy – be yours in abundance. Angela Angela Zimmerman Future Pastor Starling Avenue Baptist Church