Elder Updates

Hello, Fellowship Alliance Chapel church family. The elder board is starting a new approach for bringing updates to our church family that avoids detracting from our Sunday morning worship time. This will be the place where we can share updates of the work of the elder board.  

So with that, here are the updates of this past month:

• Our three new elders, Jay Appleton, Bob Burch, and Sajay Mathew, have officially started their terms of service. We are thankful to God for their faithfulness in answering the call to service and are joyful to have them on board.
• Praise God! Orchard Alliance has approved our application to refinance the loan on our building, which will reduce our monthly payments by more than 20%. Helping to secure the loan was the result of the Engage campaign, with pledges of almost $1,900,000. Thank you, church, for your generosity and prayerful consideration of support. 
• Handouts of the Q2 Finance Report are now available at the welcome tables in the Worship Center atrium, sharing both attendance trends and our income/expense actuals vs. budget. Please continue to pray over the offering that we may be good stewards with God’s provision and blessing.
• The Elder Board completed our Theological vision and provided it to the pastor search team as they now prepare to post the opening for our Senior Pastor position. The search team has been meeting and praying weekly for the past two months in preparation and discernment, and we are grateful for their dedicated service in listening for God’s direction in calling our next Senior Pastor. The search team will be providing progress updates here as part of future elder updates.
• We are also grateful for Pastors Marty, Glenn, and Erik, as they will continue to fulfill the interim preaching responsibilities as a team until a new Senior Pastor is found. Please pray that the Holy Spirit would bless their words in sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• The Elder Board is excited to share that Pastor Eddie Jurimas and Pastor Chris Rose have started the journey toward ordination with our denomination, the Christian & Missionary Alliance. This is a two-to-three-year process of study and examination that requires a time commitment beyond their full-time jobs. Please keep them in prayer and give them words of encouragement and support if you see them. Going forward, the elders will provide these updates monthly if not more frequently. As always, please email with any questions you have at Elders@myfac.org and watch this spot for future updates. Thank you, and may God bless each of you.

 
The FAC Elders