It is that time of year again we most of find ourselves shifting gears as the new school year begins. For most of us we continue to order our personal schedules not by quarters, as in the business world, but by semesters. With the changing of semesters it usually means a shifts in roles and responsibilities. Sometimes these shifts are minor and at other times they require a complete restructuring of our priorities. As the Otts’ Family gets ready to kick off this fall we find ourselves in the complete restructuring of our priorities and we are excited about what lies ahead.
This past Sunday we made it official before our church that we are moving into a new role and taking on new responsibilities. Our new role at ACC-W is Family Zone Pastors. We accepted this role knowing that we were taking on greater responsibility for spiritually carrying not only families within our church but also the youth & children’s ministries. It is a great honor to be entrusted with such outstanding people and we believe that we have been given the best job in the world.
So what is a Family Zone Pastor? Within the context of our church we have 5 different zones of ministry: families, young professionals, college, youth, and children. As Family Zone Pastors we will provide oversight, vision, and leadership for the families, youth & children. Since these zones of ministry are already so tied together it only makes sense that they more synchronized. We will provide leadership for our youth pastor & children’s director as well as for the leaders serving in the families lifegroups. We will also be organizing the momentum building events for these zones of ministry. We view momentum building events as intentional times of accelerated spiritual and communal growth. For example these are things like marriage & parenting conferences, women’s retreats, men’s gatherings, & mission trips.
Chris has also been asked to join our churches teaching team that provides biblical teaching and instruction for our congregation on Sunday mornings and in our training schools. This is something Chris is quite excited about especially after the opportunity he had to teach during our Tijuana mission trip this past summer. He will be consistently teaching on a number of different topics in Elevate and will be teaching a couple of times a semester on Sunday mornings. One of the main reasons he is excited about this is the weight that teaching the scriptures bring. It is a great honor to equip the saints for the work of the ministry and it demands a greater level of accountability on a teachers life. He knows that by accepting this responsibilities he is saying yes to greater dependency upon Jesus to live out what he teaches.
Please pray for us as we embark on these new roles & responsibilities.
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