NEW RESPONSIBILITIES
Last week was our Fellowship’s Annual Convention. It was good to get together again with our dear friends who pastor churches all over the country or serve on the mission field around the globe. We heard challenging messages from some great and accomplished speakers, including Dr. Paul Walker, who formerly headed the Church of God denomination. Dr. Walker shared memories from his early days of pastoring and the miraculous outpouring of God’s Spirit in a great revival. I pray another great revival visits our nation.
Our Fellowship, CMI Int’l, is changing. We completely rewrote our By-Laws, restructuring the way we operate. Instead of having competitive elections for officers, we are reorganizing to be built on relationships. The entire fellowship of ministers will be overseen by twelve Pastoral Oversees, whose responsibility it will be to give pastoral care to ministers under him. And every member of CMI will choose which of the twelve he/she desires to connect with. That removes geographical boundaries and focuses upon relationships.
I was appointed to serve as one of those Pastoral Overseers for the next year. It will take a month to allow all of the CMI member ministers to respond and I know how many men/women will be under my care. Pray with me that God will give me the time and compassion to give proper care to these men and women of God.
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