A Historical Night
This is part three in a series of posts following the search for a new pastor at Glenwood Presbyterian Church. You can find the table of contents here.
Since Pastor Charles was called as our interim pastor, our transition team has been hard at work in starting to complete a mission study. One of our first goals was to come to terms with our history here at GPC. What that actually means is that we look back and consider how God has worked in our past to bring the particular people that are here to this place at this time. Once we have that perspective we are better suited for determining where God is leading us in the future.
Pastor Charles suggested a fun way to do this was to have a fellowship gathering and have people share stories about major events in the church and things they remember. Last Sunday night, we had an ice cream social in place of SHINE, and put up newsprint around the fellowship hall along with pictures of our previous pastors all the way back to the 1930s. We then had everyone there go around and write on the newsprint the dates of some important things that happened to them. For example, I wrote when I joined the church, when I was married in the church, when I went to UNC and law school, when I became choir director, and so forth.
After the ice cream was knocked out, we had several people speak about different eras of church history. I thought it was a lot of fun and people really seemed to enjoy the walk down memory lane. This will be an ongoing project - we left the newsprint up on the walls - and once we’re finished filling in our important dates, we’ll write a brief summary of the history of our church.
One very interesting thing that happened: while reading out loud from the first minutes of the sunday school meeting that would become GPC from back in 1908, Pastor Charles discovered that his great grandfather may have been a charter member of our church. God works in mysterious ways!
The next task of the transition team is to re-examine our church missions and mission statement. Please continue to pray for us as we try to determine God’s will for our church.
Written by Brian Beasley.
"But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." Matt. 6:33
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