A New Year of New Challenges
LCC’s Pastoral Leadership Team, including our new Senior Pastor Ron Berget, have been evaluating the mission, vision, and values of our church family for the past several months. A very difficult decision they have had to make is in reducing the number of LCC Ministry Staff, due to the need to keep our overall budget in line with our strategic goals.
After much consideration and lengthy times of prayer, our PLT has decided to eliminate a position within our staff. They have come to the conclusion to relieve Pastor Mark McClintick of his role on LCC staff effective May 31, 2010, and to reassign student ministries to Pastor Jeff Pankratz (who would then serve as Pastor of Student Ministries and Missions)
Other duties that our staff are currently giving leadership to, would be reassigned among other staff workers. Essentially, Ron Berget and Melody Warren will be assigned roles within the Adult Ministry of our church family, and Jeff Pankratz will retain oversight of Missions ministry, including Student ministry as a key component of our local outreach in the Alexandria area. KrisAnn Carlsen will continue to give direction to our Childrens Ministry Team, and Jon Gaugert (also chairman of our PLT) will continue giving leadership to our Worship and Arts Team.
LCC leadership has communicated this to Mark McClintick, and his position will be eliminated effective May 31, 2010. Pastor Ron, and our Pastoral Leadership Team, will be hosting parent/student Q&A sessions in the weeks ahead for you to dialogue about these new challenges. In addition, Pastor Ron welcomes you to speak with him anytime throughout the course of these next weeks, hoping to share their reasoning behind this decision.
Please be in prayer for Mark, Tammy, and their three children Megan, Josie, and Mason. Pray for meaningful employment for Mark, and for the peace of His Holy Spirit to cover us all, especially our students and their families, during this difficult transition. Pray that our student ministry would continue to ‘reach and build’ into the lives of high school and middle school students, as each new day brings us closer to our Lord Jesus’ coming.
