Pastoral Search Committee Update

Happy new year, OMPC!

Thank you for your encouragement, trust, and prayers! We have felt supported and bolstered already in this process, and we are only beginning. We sense the Lord at work, and we are resting in and surrendering to His timeline, path, and guidance. Thank you for your part in it.

Our team has been meeting regularly since November working to build trust and rapport among the team; learning the search process under the guidance of our consultants, McGowan Global; and praying for the upcoming transition for both our church, and for the man we will eventually welcome to OMPC.

As a team, we have selected the following chairs for our team:

• Co-Chairs: Scott Baker and Robyn Felton

• Communications Chair: Nathan Kirkpatrick

• Prayer Chair: Lisa Donohue

  We have felt guided and protected by McGowan Global. Their advice, counsel, and experience prove to be a means of grace in this journey, and by God’s grace, we continue to develop with them a healthy trust and line of communication.

  Coming Up:

  Over the weekend of January 20-21, McGowan will conduct our “Discovery Weekend,” at which they will speak with a cross-section of engaged church members to learn more about OMPC, our culture, and distinctives. The insights gathered from these interviews will help inform our search as we seek and evaluate candidates who fully align with our congregation’s values and vision for the future.

  Eventually we will invite nominations through a form located here on our website, and we will communicate when that link is open to do so.

  Pray With Us:

  Join us in praying through Colossians 1:9-12 during this process:

  “And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”