2013-2014 elders
Bil Azkoul, Denny Bergakker, Dane Bjork, Dan Challa, Clare DeGraaf, Steve
Doren, Dick Doyle, Chad Kerr, Ross Pettinga, Sam Roth, Kent Snoeyink,
Venon Spears, Tom Thurston, Allen Vanhaitsma
Over the past year, Calvary’s elders
have continued to be committed
first and foremost to prayer. We
cherish the opportunity to hold our
congregation before the Lord, both
generally and specifically as people
share their needs with us. It is a
great blessing that we often get to
see God’s work in the lives of our
congregation.
This past year, we also spent a
great deal of time seeking God’s
guidance for the church as a whole,
especially in two areas, our Statement of Faith and our Grace Beyond
building project, and we have seen
God move in both of these areas.
A year ago, we voted as a congregation to provisionally adopt a
document called What We Teach to
be used in membership classes and
other teaching contexts. We have
spent this year asking for your questions and feedback on both the What
We Teach document and the shorter
What We Believe document, because
our desire is to craft a final statement that is easy to understand and
answers the most basic questions
of the Christian faith. Our prayer is
that not just the documents, but the
entire process would be one that
God uses to unify our church body
and strengthen our faith.
The final version of What We
Believe will come to a vote at this
year’s Annual Meeting, to be adopted into our official church constitution. Thank you for your participation in this process. I pray that it
has given you opportunity to reflect
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and pray and that the final result
is one that enables you to better
articulate not just what Calvary
believes, but what YOU believe.
The second area of great significance this year has been addressing the facility limitations that we
consistently face. In this last year,
God specifically led us away from
building a significantly larger sanctuary. At the same time, however,
we feel His leading toward renovation, especially to address needs in
our Children’s and Student ministries, along with improving space
where worshi