Well as it would obviously happen, the week that Mandy and I have decided is right for us to announce our resignation both the Senior Minister and Chairman of Elders (a trusted friend) are on vacation. -ugh!
I didn’t realize the elder was gone and sent him a message saying we needed to talk. He called, but he is in the country side in Kentucky (what the heck kind of vacation is that?) and doesn’t have great phone coverage. I didn’t want to talk about this sort of thing over the phone, but we couldn’t really talk well, and his curiosity was already up. So, he asked me to email him.
I was going to post the email here, but I don’t think I will. Once I put an official resignation letter together, I will post it just as a documentation and reminder of this process we are going through.
Anyways, I haven’t heard anything yet from sending the email early this morning. But a huge weight has been lifted off of Mandy and I’s shoulders as we are still grasping on to God, but are now fully dedicated to this move. It feels good to know that you are moving on something you can’t possibly do on your own. That God has to be in it, otherwise it will fail. It is scary, but awesome to see God’s providence and blessing on us during this time.
Pray for us as we now get into the messiest part where we will start having the hard conversations with people about us leaving. This church has a lot of hurt from previous Youth Ministers. So, I am at peace in this process, but aware that there will be some people who don’t react well to this.
