30 Mar The Shepherd’s Staff – March 2021

Over the past month, the Elders have been working on the Deacon role at Mt. Pleasant. Since this is a new role at the church we have spent quite a bit of time discussing what the needs are and how to best organize our ministries under the leadership of Deacons. Once we categorized the different roles, we considered who in our body would be the best candidates to take on the challenges.

One of these challenges is that we have never had the role before. This was indeed a blank slate for us to work out the goals of our church. We have put together some job descriptions to help explain what each Deacon would be working on and who their teams would be. Our plan is to finalize the recommendations with the Administrative Council and formally announce the Deacon ministry in the next month. Below is a list of the different roles we identified and a short description of that Deacon’s role:

Family Ministries: Works to minister to not only youth and children but the whole family. Helps get new families connected at MTP.

Youth Ministries: Works alongside Donnie B. to support him and meet the needs of our Youth program.

Children Ministries: Works alongside Jennifer to support her and meet the needs of the Children’s program.

Adult Ministries: Coordinates the adult ministries at the church and helps integrate all the adult ministries. Also works to get new members connected at MTP.

Pastoral Care: Works alongside our Associate Pastor for Pastoral Care to reach out to those in our body who need physical, emotional and spiritual comfort during difficult times.

Outreach/Missions: Coordinates our outreach and mission activities.

Administration: Works with the Finance team and Trustees to make sure MTP is prepared to support our ministries.

The other item we have been working on is replacing Donnie Durham as our Pastoral Care Associate. We believe that this will likely be a full-time position and will advertise for an Associate Pastor for Pastoral Care and Counseling that works full time to support those needs in our body. If you know of a person who may be interested, please contact one of the Elders or Pastor Chris.

• Bo Sink
• Joe Hayworth
• Eric Hilton
• Steve Cranford
• Danny Buckner
• Tommy McDevitt
• Vince Brown
• Daniel Rich
• Bill Baughn

1 Timothy 4:6 If you put these things before the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.