We are very excited about one of our very own staff members transitioning from the Care Center to a new role at Willow DuPage. Here is a brief picture of that journey:
What is your role and briefly what will you be doing? My new role is the Community Life Pastor at Willow DuPage. I will mainly be responsible for the adult discipleship. My job will be to pastor and care for the Willow DuPage congregation. I will be working with connections, assimilation, membership, small groups, possibly a mid-week expression, teaching, hosting services and most importantly helping build up a thriving community of believers.
What are you most excited about and looking forward to? I am excited about helping build the local church in a holistic and transformational way. In this role I feel that I will be stepping more fully into my spiritual gifts and living more out of who God has made me to be. God has made it crystal clear that I am a Pastor, Evangelist and a Leader. I have been dreaming about being a part of something like this since I was 18 years old. I am 30 years old now and I am pumped about what God wants to do in me and through me in this next season. There is an incredible opportunity to build the local church in DuPage county and I couldn’t be more excited!
How did you know God called you to this? This is a tough question and I will answer this one with a prayer that gave me peace in making this tough decision. Obviously this wasn’t the ideal time to step away from the Care Center, but God made it very clear to me that it was time to move on to a new assignment. This prayer answers this question better than I ever could.
Oscar Romero Prayer
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts; it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen.
2 Comments:
Congrats Tyler….I can certainly see you thriving with that team and this role…Way to go!!
Tyler,
We miss you greatly, but you are already making a difference in your new role. You are in my prayers as I know those of us at the Care Center are in yours.
All the best.