Our application email box has been very active this past week. We are really excited to see how many folks have decided to enter into this discernment process with us and we want to thank EVERYONE who worked to meet our extremely tight deadlines.
So who responded? We have 25 candidates….men and women…from all over the country and with many different backgrounds. We have preachers, teachers and community builders. We have folks who speak two and even three languages. Folks with urban experiences. Folks with rural experiences.
Now begins the committee’s most difficult work. We have a week for each us to get to know, through the applications, essay questions and recommendations, each of these 25 candidates. We will be meeting next Saturday, May 9th, in a retreat setting, to discern, with the help of the Holy Spirit, who should go forward with us to the next step of the nomination process.
Please pray for us and for all our candidates as our mutual discovery process moves forward.
