Call Committee

Welcome to the call committee web page. Please visit here for the latest news in regard to the call process at Trinity. Please email the call committee at callcomm@trinitylutheranfc.org or via the contact form.

Call Committee September Update

Dear Trinity Friends,

The Congregation Council and the Call Committee are excited to introduce to the congregation our mutually unanimous selection of the candidates to bring before you to be our next Pastors. Yes, plural. They are a couple with a toddler, currently serving two separate parishes that wish to combine their talents and energies in one call. Their stories are compelling and are described in an insert to the Tidings. Your issue of the September Tidings should arrive at your home on Saturday, August 28 or the next Monday. Copies of the insert are also available at Church.

Please take note of the opportunity to meet them on Monday, September 6 from 5:00pm until 7:00pm. They will have a few words for us at 6pm.

The insert in the Tidings is notice that the Council has called for a special meeting of the congregation to be held in the Sanctuary on Sunday September 12, 2010 after the 10:00 service (approximately 11:30) to call these Pastors.

We journey together,

Trinity Call Committee

Our Committee consists of Bob Beckman (Chair), Dave Karst (Vice-Chair), Cheryl Dolan and Susie Stark (Secretaries), Dave Armstrong and Steph Dugger (Members) and Rick Walberg (Alternate and Chaplain). Youth representatives are Jill Remmers and Alec Schilling.

CALL PROCESS PRAYER

Almighty God, as you have raised up faithful servants of your holy Word and Sacraments to tend your flock in each time and place, send now, we pray, a faithful shepherd to lead our flock. Send us a shepherd of goodness and grace, of strength and faith, of righteousness in your sight. Send us a shepherd to comfort and care for us, to preach your word, to teach our children, to baptize and commune, to marry and counsel, to visit and lay to rest, to guide us and pray for us. Give us a holy patience in this time of discernment, a patience that trusts in you for our present and lasting care, knowing that you will bring our good work to fulfillment in your time. Keep us faithful in mission, regular in worship, responsible in stewardship, mindful of the needy and diligent in prayer. Fill us with your Holy Spirit and magnify our gifts of discernment, as we seek to follow your will. Eternal God, you call us to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with courage not knowing where we are to go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord, hear our prayer.

(Portions of this Order of Prayer for and Affirmation of a Call Committee have been edited from Liturgy: Original Services, Worship Idea and Ideas by the Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel, ELCA which can be viewed in its original form at http://www.members.aol.com/LiturgybyTLW/index.html)