Today was my second Sunday preaching at Jefferson Evangelical Church in Jefferson. Today was also the formal commissioning of me as the church’s pastor. I am not abandoning JBC as I take on this new role.

I preach at JBC’s Wednesday service each week, I teach my Leadership class material on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, I am actively involved in helping the “Senior’s Ministry on Wednesdays from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, I am on the Leadership Team of “Men’s Ministry” at JBC, I am coaching four different Pastors in different churches, I am mentoring a young man at JBC who wants to go into ministry, I coach and train people at JBC who want to start a ministry at JBC, I attend the 8:30 am service on Sunday mornings at JBC, I am on the Elder board, I am part of a “Men’s Accountability Group” and working on starting two more groups, and I participate in three different corporate prayer times at JBC. I have been at JBC for 48 years as its pastor, and it will always be my church, but now “Jefferson Evangelical Church” is my church as well. Why do this?

I love the Church of Jesus Christ and strongly believe in God’s desire to see unity between various churches, especially those in the same town. I have the time now that Pastor Mike Dedera is preaching at JBC; I have the desire to preach and the passion to do as much as possible with my life for the Lord, and one of my life mottos is, “When God gives you an open door, walk through it, He will give me what I need to succeed.” My goal is to preach here for two years, maybe more, and to mentor someone who would take my place, love the church, and serve it well.