A quick note about Detroit Hope Stipend Position

For those of you who have been keeping up with the mission center website and news feed from our communication minister extraordinare Erica Blevins, she has posted an important announcement about a part-time position working with the Detroit Hope Church Plant. We had a number of skilled ministers and folks colaborate on the criteria for which we have put together. Ultimately, this was to direct our search. I want to personally invite beyond that to the call of Christ to this area. We have accomplished a lot in a year, and I think that we could do even more with someone committed part time to the call. It is a big responsibility, a daunting task if you will, but God is in our midst. All of us have the ability through God who strengthens us. We may have doubts personally or in our lives that we may not be fit for church planting, or urban ministries, or coming over that dotted line of difference. I stand to say, those barriers can be overcome through Christ. The Love of Christ stretches to every neighborhood in Michigan and the world. Please help. Feel Called. Be a Servant. I have been in prayerful consideration, and I know that some of you may be feeling like you can't because a lot of you are supportive to so many different ways of ministry, social groups and associations. I understand that. I ask that you that have felt the urgency of this congregation re-opening, and being one day sustaining; that will help in our search for someone who might be in transition, someone who is striving for different ministry, someone on the edge, someone who is just thirsty to give. Help us find that person. Give a helpful nudge, a pat on the back, an appreciation that extends them to a new area broader than the place they are. I am affirmed that this work we do here has momentum for something great. Christ has blessed us thus far, and we only need the help to find resources, people and a giving spirit that will change the balance to growth, health and vitality. Help us. As President Prophet Steve Veazey has stated, the Call for Volunteers is Now! I ask that you volunteer prayer and discernment to help Detroit Hope find a part-time person, and also look for volunteers to help in your own congregations to bridge gaps, bring us closer together - interdependent, not so independent and isolated. Christmas this year really showed me the power that the Spirit can bring to the Body with the responses of even a few. Just imagine what we could do together!

Thank you for your Prayerful Support,

Pastor Jacob Blakesley