On September 15th, I will begin as the interim pastor at the Jefferson Evangelical Church. If you don’t know, the church is on the main street in Jefferson, across from the grade school and next to Freres Building Supply. I will preach on Sundays, and at some point, I will start to mentor someone to be the church pastor. I will probably preach there for several years. I have moved my Leadership classes to Tuesday and Thursday evenings so that I can take on this new ministry, and I will also preach at our Wednesday night service at JBC, which will start in the middle of September.

I am excited about being able to help this sister church in Jefferson. They have not had a pastor for five years; they just have had a series of interims and fill-in preachers. I did this for Talbot Community Church, Buena Vista Community Church, and our daughter church, Agape Family Fellowship in the past. I enjoyed the challenge and the opportunity to bless the greater “Body of Christ.”

I hope that because we have a Saturday service, three services on Sunday, and a Wednesday night service at JBC, several people will want to attend the Evangelical church with me and a JBC service. This will help fill up the church service, give more life and volume to the worship time, and have more people to laugh at my jokes.