This week, Joe Stowell, the president of Moody Bible Institute announced his plans to retire from his position, effective February. Click here for the full details.
Anyway, for those of you to lazy to click the link, or you're just waiting till you're done reading the full post to check it out, Stowell, who has preached at our church several times in the past, made the point that God has gifted him in two very distinct areas. One is administration and leadership, the other is teaching/preaching. For the past 18 years he has, in his words used up almost all of his ability to do the first, while barely tapping the latter. Over the past few years, he has had the growing desire and passion for teaching, so after much prayer, and on the advice of many of his trusted friends and advisors, he decided to step down as president of Moody.
This morning, after the service, James MacDonald, head pastor of our church had a little "family meeting" with our congregation of several thousand to talk about the financial situation of one or two of the projects the church has undertaken, and to announce that Joe Stowell will be taking a position here at Harvest as assistant pastor in March of next year. James preaches an average of 39 sundays a year, and that number will move down only to 37 next year, with Joe taking the 15 of the remaining sundays. So anyway... this is great news. We're very excited, and happy to see some of the pressure off of James.
That's it for today.
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