THE NEXT PHASE
If you missed the announcement last weekend, we announced that Rev Jeff Pike will be joining the pastoral staff at New Hope the first week in January. Pastor Jeff will be working with the administration and financial aspects of the church, as well as scheduling many volunteers, and giving guidance to our GET (missions) Team.
Pastor Jeff was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, but moved to Florida to begin a civil engineering career. While there he felt called to the mission field. After completing biblical training, he left to serve with YWAM, a well-known missions agency, with whom he spent about 20 years serving in South Africa. He and his wife, Robin, have three adopted children, ages 6, 8, and 13.
We flew the family up here two weeks ago to see if we all felt a connection, and we did. Many of the church leadership got to meet them, because I didn’t want to make a decision of this magnitude by myself. We are all in agreement this is the leading of the Lord for the next phase in ministry at New Hope.
Rejoice with me as we prepare for great things in 2015.
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