Dear brothers and sisters,

For the past seven years, it has been a privilege to lead our congregation in corporate worship on Sunday mornings. Campbellsville Christian Church has been my home church since birth, and the Lord has used so many men and women in this congregation to guide and mold me in my path to becoming a disciple of Jesus. For me, the joy of serving this congregation during the Sunday morning gathering is only exceeded by my ultimate joy of being found in Christ, and the earthly joy of leading my wife and children in glorifying God and following Jesus. I am especially grateful to have served this congregation - as a minister and as a member - through both the triumphs and the trials of the past five years.

This congregation now stands ready to begin a new chapter in the story of CCC. I have spent the last twelve months diligently seeking the Lord’s guidance in how best to continue serving this church body, and - as best as I am able to perceive His guidance through prayer, meditation, fasting, and the Word - the Lord has assured me of two things: first, that He has provided all that is needed and is preparing the way for wonderful things to come in the life of Campbellsville Christian Church, and second, that He is directing me to step away from my role here at CCC and follow His leading elsewhere.

To say that this was a difficult decision is perhaps one of the great understatements of my life. So much of my identity - as a follower of Christ, a husband, a father, a worker and employer, and a worshipper - is due to God’s work through the faithful believers of Campbellsville Christian Church over the course of my life, with none more significant than my own father and mother. I love this church and the families and individuals that compose it. In full honesty, I had hoped that the Lord would answer my pleas for guidance differently. But even as my love for CCC and my hope for its future has grown, the Lord’s intent for me and my family to follow Him elsewhere has become undeniable and unavoidable. The Lord has impressed upon me the words of John the a Baptist, who followed the Spirit’s call to minister in full obedience. But when the appointed time arrived, John pointed to Jesus and said, “He must increase, I must decrease.”

I will finish my time at Campbellsville Christian Church next Sunday, October 12.Although I will be parting ways with the ministry work of this church body, I will remain united with this congregation in prayer and support. I thank you all for allowing me to serve and lead you in declaring the glory of God and the goodness of Jesus over these years. These types of separations are never easy: the Lord knows we have felt that over the past five years. I am deeply saddened. But I plead with you and with the Father that by His grace you will not be dismayed or discouraged. Instead, I pray that you will be renewed in the hope that God is preparing something new, and that you will be renewed in the knowledge that the same Spirit that raised our Lord Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you to bring about his good purposes. I pray that by God’s grace and the work of the Holy Spirit that Campbellsville Christian Church will be a beacon of Gospel hope and an outpost for the Kingdom of Jesus in our community. 

Ephesians 3:14-21

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Immediately following service next Sunday, Oct. 12 we will have a farewell celebration for Taylor, Morgan, Oliver, Warren, and Ellender as they leave our congregation to where the Lord will lead them next. We encourage you to stop in the FLC for a time of fellowship.  Cards, gift cards, etc. are encouraged.