This Sunday will be an exciting one as WCPC hears and then acts on a recommendation from your Associate Pastor Nominating Committee (APNC) that a call be issued to our next associate pastor. The meeting is called for 10:30 a.m. in the sanctuary. The call system of the PC USA is such that confidentiality up until the name of the candidate is announced is maintained. On Sunday, Roger Richardson, the Chair of the APNC will provide both verbally and in written form biographical information about the candidate, as well as specifics in regards to their terms of call (salary).

This is not the only business we will conduct. The current Nominating Committee will place into nomination Amy Lothringer to fulfill the unexpired term of Rae Ward whose family recently relocated. They will also offer into nomination the following individuals to serve as at-large members of the 2009 Nominating Committee: Deanna Briger, Bill Duncan, Denny Kryder, and Jacque Somers. The 2009 Nominating Committee's Moderator will be Cheryl Schroeder, who was elected by your Session to serve. The Session also elected Linda Snyder to serve this year and moderate the committee in 2010. The Board of Deacons elected Jeff Keiser. The seven member Nominating Committee, composed of two members of the Session and one member of the Board of Deacons, along with four at-large members from the congregation, will have the task of discerning those individuals God is calling into leadership roles on the Session and Diaconate. Nominations from the floor are permitted for both the unexpired term of Rae Ward and for the four members at-large from the congregation who will serve on the Nominating Committee. Your Session is also asking that you dismiss and dissolve, with thanks and gratitude, the Associate Pastor Nominating Committee for Youth and Young Adults. The position of Youth Director was filled by your Session with Eva Sellman and is not a called position.

Also, this Sunday, as has been our tradition, we conclude our stewardship focus, "The Next Step..." You will have the opportunity to bring forward at the conclusion of both worship services your commitment/pledge cards for 2009. Please prayerfully consider your response. I think it is appropriate that this Sunday our Commitment Sunday is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, since our giving is a response of gratitude and thankfulness to God.

It will be a full morning but one that will enable this congregation and each of us individually and as families to take that "Next Step!"

Your pastor,

Davide Jones