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Pastor’s Notes
We have been offered a unique opportunity to host a Timothy for a number of weeks this summer and I would be honored to introduce you to him through this newsletter. You will recall that the letters to Timothy in the New Testament give us many reasons to believe that Paul had mentored the young man and then sent him out to give instructions to the churches. What we do not have in the letters is a clear description of the time that Timothy spent with Paul and the church before he was sent to the church in Ephesus. We will have to fill in some of the blanks ourselves for it will be this time
period that we will desire to duplicate in our shared ministry with our summer youth ministry intern, Aaron Dilla.
Aaron is a student at Northwest Christian University and will be finishing up next year with a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Theology, with a Minor in Communications. He has a family connection to this church in that his mother is the niece of Ray and Kay Justice. He shared with the interview committee that his decision to follow Christ was made as an early teen but that it was a week at Wi Ne Ma camp that guided him to take steps toward a stronger commitment to scripture and a more meaningful relationship to Christ. He will be starting soon and will be with us through the first week of August. Although school does not start at that time, Aaron plays soccer for NCU in the fall and they will be practicing prior to the beginning of classes.
While he comes to us highly recommended, as one who is a good student of scripture, a person dedicated to prayer and one who is willing to go and do as God calls him, he also comes to us desiring to participate in the life of the church in a way that will broaden his understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a leader in the church. It will be his first responsibility to work with the youth ministry of the church but it will be our responsibility to give him the room to experience a variety of areas of ministry that will give him perspective and insight for future classes both at NCU and seminary.
At this time I invite you to help in two ways. First, turn your prayers that you have been offering for this process of choosing an intern, to prayers specific to Aaron and his shared ministry here with us. And second, review those letters Paul wrote to Timothy and pray that we can be such encouragers of grace, mercy and peace from our God and Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Pastor Don
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