This coming Sunday May 18 is a unique day in our church family. We have invited in some guests that we all need to meet and get to know them. We have talked of this for weeks now, but just in case you didn’t get it, they are coming for a visit to LifeWay and the NW with the possibility that Tim would join our Sr Pastor team in a few months, and eventually take the role of the next Sr Pastor at LifeWay. Now… this full decision has not been made at this point, but we had lots of conversations and visits, and our leadership has felt strong enough about this that we are having them come for a visit. At the time of this reading… they are now actually here! There will lots of visits with groups of people. But very important, Tim will be preaching this Sunday, followed by a fun and important lunch to follow our worship service. Please O please… if at all possible try to be physically present for this. If you have to listen online, but honestly only join in online if you just cannot attend in person for whatever reason. You need to be physically present if at all possible. Be present for both our Worship gathering at 10am as well as the lunch to follow. At the lunch we will have plenty of opportunity to have both Tim and Cassie tell about themselves, ask questions of our church family, and have us at LifeWay ask questions of them.
How do you prepare for this Sunday’s worship? Yes we do have a guest, but it is absolutely a time of worship and growing in God’s Word. I ask that you prepare for Sunday’s worship with prayer for Tim and Cassie, and prayer for our LifeWay Church family as we seek God’s Will for next steps for LifeWay and our mission we are assigned to fulfill for Christ.
I will indeed be part of this weekend in every way. I’ll see you Sunday morning at 10am.
