Duck United Methodist Church:

A place of worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry and witness.

Dear Members and Friends of Duck Church,

How happy I amto be with you as we love, serve, and follow Jesus together! You have made my family and me feel so welcome that we have already begun to feel that we are “home.”

One of the first things I’d like to do is identify a group of spiritual leaders whom you love and trust, to join me in seeking God’s guidance as we look to the future of our ministry together. The group will not have any “official” responsibilities, but we will seek the Lord together; and we will learn to grow together in loving one another, in serving him, and in discovering pathways of spiritual leadership.

So I’ll need your help. I am asking you to respond with the names of 3 people you would describe as a “spiritual leader.” These would be individuals who could be described as people of integrity, influential in our congregation, committed to Jesus Christ and His Church, and who are gifted for spiritual leadership.

Would you do the following for your church, and in order to help me as we look to God’s plans for our future together?
•Pray that God will lead the right people to be part of this team.
•Take a few days to considerwho youbelieve is a person described above.
•Email or call me with your nomination byAugust 31, 2010.

My email address is:
DuckUMCPastor@embarqmail.com.

Once again, I thank you and all those who have done so much to welcome and receive us. I continue to pray that God will indeed do “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”

In His great love,

John