Family Meeting
Family Meeting, December 3rd 2025
We had a great crowd and a great time at our scheduled Family Meeting.
In case you missed it, we wanted to share a few of the highlights.
We began our Family Meeting with Ministry Team reports that included encouraging data about the continued growth that we are seeing in our Bible Fellowship ministry. We’re averaging over 80% of our Sunday morning worship attendance also being engaged in a Bible Fellowship Class each week (and we’ve been as high as 90+% recently). We praise God for that and encourage you, if you aren’t already, to get plugged into one of our classes!
We also heard a report from Mike McCollum, Chair of the Drive Through Nativity Team, who shared the exciting news that we have purchased the scaffolding we use for set-up and now how a permanent solution instead of having to rent the product each time we do the presentation, saving a tremendous amount of money. On a related note, this scaffolding will also be a great benefit to the Building and Grounds Team who can use it for projects here at the church rather than having to rent a lift or pay for the service of a bucket truck.
JD Smith, Chair of Building and Grounds team shared that there are a couple of pressing issues that must be addressed. First, there is an immediate need to totally rewire the North Anderson office. Secondly, we must address an issue of a water leak under the parking lot (near the Sanctuary). The third issue that we must address is replacing one of our HVAC units before summer. The cost of meeting these will be met through the budgeted amount for Building & Grounds as well as drawing from Capital Reserve.
Our Mission Team shared some exciting news about ongoing mission projects and opportunities going into the new year and we heard about a new initiative for our Worship Ministry in the purchasing of the new SING! Hymnals from the Getty’s. We’ll continue to employ the use of technology to provide song lyrics on screen but will provide these hymnals as well, as we seek to strengthen congregational singing and involvement. On a related note, we plan to offer a couple of workshops this year that will teach participants the basics on how to read music. We believe this will bless our congregational worship in a tremendous way!
Pastor Kyle shared that the date for receiving resumes for the open positions of Children’s Ministry Director and Administrative Assistant has been reached and the resumes that came in have been forwarded to our Personnel Team. Interviews will begin soon and the Team will announce these hires as they are made.
The Nominating Team Chair, Ashley Rollins, presented their proposed Ministry Teams to the church and the body voted to approve this unanimously.
Stephen Bryant, Chair of our Finance Team, presented the proposed 2026 Budget to the congregation and it was also approved unanimously.
We were blessed to license Kaden Caudell, who is finishing up his year-long internship this month, to preach the Gospel. The church voted, again unanimously, to affirm his licensing and we look forward to seeing how the Lord uses him in the future.
We heard a word from Pastor Kyle concerning our emphasis for 2026, “Whole Life Stewardship”. Based upon 1 Corinthians 4:2, “It is required in stewards that we be found faithful”, we’ll take time this year to explore ways that we can better and more intentionally steward (manage) good gifts that we are entrusted with, leveraging the whole of our lives for the sake of the Gospel. This includes our spiritual lives, physical health, our relationships, our finances, and the mission that we’ve been given to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Finally, we closed our Family Meeting by praying over and commissioning one of our Mission Teams that will be departing for Kentucky on Friday.
The unified, Gospel centered, mission driven heart of our church family was demonstrated in our Family Meeting, and we are grateful for that!
We look forward to worshipping with you all this Sunday!
We had a great crowd and a great time at our scheduled Family Meeting.
In case you missed it, we wanted to share a few of the highlights.
We began our Family Meeting with Ministry Team reports that included encouraging data about the continued growth that we are seeing in our Bible Fellowship ministry. We’re averaging over 80% of our Sunday morning worship attendance also being engaged in a Bible Fellowship Class each week (and we’ve been as high as 90+% recently). We praise God for that and encourage you, if you aren’t already, to get plugged into one of our classes!
We also heard a report from Mike McCollum, Chair of the Drive Through Nativity Team, who shared the exciting news that we have purchased the scaffolding we use for set-up and now how a permanent solution instead of having to rent the product each time we do the presentation, saving a tremendous amount of money. On a related note, this scaffolding will also be a great benefit to the Building and Grounds Team who can use it for projects here at the church rather than having to rent a lift or pay for the service of a bucket truck.
JD Smith, Chair of Building and Grounds team shared that there are a couple of pressing issues that must be addressed. First, there is an immediate need to totally rewire the North Anderson office. Secondly, we must address an issue of a water leak under the parking lot (near the Sanctuary). The third issue that we must address is replacing one of our HVAC units before summer. The cost of meeting these will be met through the budgeted amount for Building & Grounds as well as drawing from Capital Reserve.
Our Mission Team shared some exciting news about ongoing mission projects and opportunities going into the new year and we heard about a new initiative for our Worship Ministry in the purchasing of the new SING! Hymnals from the Getty’s. We’ll continue to employ the use of technology to provide song lyrics on screen but will provide these hymnals as well, as we seek to strengthen congregational singing and involvement. On a related note, we plan to offer a couple of workshops this year that will teach participants the basics on how to read music. We believe this will bless our congregational worship in a tremendous way!
Pastor Kyle shared that the date for receiving resumes for the open positions of Children’s Ministry Director and Administrative Assistant has been reached and the resumes that came in have been forwarded to our Personnel Team. Interviews will begin soon and the Team will announce these hires as they are made.
The Nominating Team Chair, Ashley Rollins, presented their proposed Ministry Teams to the church and the body voted to approve this unanimously.
Stephen Bryant, Chair of our Finance Team, presented the proposed 2026 Budget to the congregation and it was also approved unanimously.
We were blessed to license Kaden Caudell, who is finishing up his year-long internship this month, to preach the Gospel. The church voted, again unanimously, to affirm his licensing and we look forward to seeing how the Lord uses him in the future.
We heard a word from Pastor Kyle concerning our emphasis for 2026, “Whole Life Stewardship”. Based upon 1 Corinthians 4:2, “It is required in stewards that we be found faithful”, we’ll take time this year to explore ways that we can better and more intentionally steward (manage) good gifts that we are entrusted with, leveraging the whole of our lives for the sake of the Gospel. This includes our spiritual lives, physical health, our relationships, our finances, and the mission that we’ve been given to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Finally, we closed our Family Meeting by praying over and commissioning one of our Mission Teams that will be departing for Kentucky on Friday.
The unified, Gospel centered, mission driven heart of our church family was demonstrated in our Family Meeting, and we are grateful for that!
We look forward to worshipping with you all this Sunday!
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