So that I don’t assume that everyone has heard the news.  On Monday night I announced my resignation to the Vestry.  My last Sunday in the serving all of you will Next Sunday, May 28th.  The last service I will participate in is the Worship night on May 31st.  In June, I will take my vacation and use that as a time of transition.

 I apologize if this is the first time you are hearing about this.  But let me take the moment to say that if this is the case, you really do need to sign up for our mailchimp email correspondence through our website.

 With that being said, I know that the question on everyone’s mind, is why?

I have taken a position Middleburg, Florida a suburb of the Jacksonville area.  The church is called Good Samaritan Anglican Church.  It is a part of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese of the Anglican Church in North America.  When you look up the church you will see that it is smaller than St. Barnabas and I know you will ask again, why?

This is a fair question and one that can only be answered by saying Susan and I both feel that this is God’s call for us and for our family.  Not to go would be disobedience to the direction of God’s purpose and plan for us.  

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They followed Him.  Surrendered in worship and God began to lead them to accomplish all that He had prepared in advance for them to do.  They followed where God led, how God led, and when God led and God work in unimaginable ways that the nations of the world would come to see and hear they invitation of God’s great love in Jesus through them. 

They Listened and heard Jesus Speak.  They Surrendered in worshiped and prayer and God prepared them.  They followed God’s leading and were filled with the Holy Spirit;  The presence, the Power, and the Purposes of God.  And you and I are here today because they choose to be obedient to they path God placed before them.

I know for many there are all kinds of emotions yet to be processed.  But I hope you will be encouraged to listen to God speak, Surrender to him in worship and prayer, follow where God leads and you will experience God unimaginable power, presence, and purposes remaining alive and well here at St. Barnabas and in your own lives you will see experience God doing a new work in you that is greater than anything you could think or imagine for His sake and for His glory.

Listen, Surrender, and Follow I promise as you turn around and see where and what God has done, the Alleluias will resound.  Amen.

 

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