For any of you who follow me, or wish to keep up with my writing and sermons, we have created a new website. We owe it to the New City Network and Mission to North America, New City Fellowship, and now 1st Presbyterian Church to be a little separate from those ministries in terms of our writing and speaking. So, here we are at a new website: RandyandJoan.com. We ask that you pray for us that some good stuff might be posted here, and helpful for folks who look on or into it.
My thanks especially to Rob Hatch who has put this website together, and found a lot of my old sermons, and to Virginia Campbell who is transferring my old cassettes into digital. Please be patient with us as it is a work in progress and we hope to add improvements along the way. As the sermon library is completed it will be added to sermons that can be downloaded from this site. My hope is that when I feel the urge to write an essay or editorial I will be able to get on this space and tell you what I think. Hopefully they will be posted on Facebook so people can respond on that platform. We will not entertain comments on this site.
I am fully employed at 1st Presbyterian as the Pastor for Missions. This post encompasses both world missions and home missions. This is a new position for the church as previously they had a “Director of World Missions,” and now they have a pastor. I work for and under Senior Pastor Gabe Fluhrer and the World Missions Executive Committee. In addition to giving oversight to all the various mission and outreach ministries of the church I am sometimes asked to help in worship, preaching, teaching, and leadership. It is a marvelous opportunity they have given me, as well as a serious responsibility, and we take it as a gift from God that can only be done successfully by the grace of God.
We are not sure how long this assignment will last. The Lord has been so very kind to me in allowing me to prepare myself and others for transition in each of my previous employments. As we approached the end of each one we didn’t know what would be next and the Lord just led us smoothly to and into the next thing. Surely age and health will make this a shorter calling, but we pray that the Lord will make each day significant for his glory.
I have a few projects in mind. One that is underway is the finishing up of a manuscript on Reconciliation and the Cross-Cultural Church. Once it is in fairly good shape we will try to submit it to a publisher. After that I hope to do a book of poetry. I hope my friends won’t forget to call or write and let me know how you are doing.
Randy