To our Members and Friends:
With gratitude to God, we are happy to tell the Caldwell community some very good news. Veronica Rogers, whom so many of us came to know during her recent internship, has accepted the Session’s offer to join the Caldwell staff in a part-time role beginning on Sunday, September 12. As Assistant to the Pastor, Veronica will focus on leading worship and providing congregational care, two areas where she is particularly gifted. Her hiring will create the only racially integrated worship team in the Charlotte Presbytery.
As you may already know, Veronica was graduated from Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte in April. She earned the school’s top award for preaching. While an intern in ministry at Caldwell, she built meaningful pastoral relationships with our members and friends, preached, led worship and helped develop our Congregational Care ministries. Veronica is currently a candidate for ministry with the Charlotte Presbytery and is scheduled to be eligible for ordination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the summer of 2011.
Caldwell strives to be a missional church, whose highest priority is on sharing the gospel through service in our city and in the world. That means we are careful about every dollar given to the church and how it is used. We are able to bring Veronica on board through two special grants the church has received. We hope to extend our relationship with Veronica into 2011.
Pastor Rev. John Cleghorn will continue to provide pastoral care for the congregation in addition to Veronica and will now be able to expand his focus on other areas. As the fastest growing church in the Presbytery for the last three years, we are humbled by what God is doing here. At this important point in the ongoing rebirth of this church, we re-dedicate ourselves to God’s purposes and the “new thing” that we are blessed to be a part of at Caldwell.
We hope you will take the opportunity to welcome Veronica in person on September 12 at worship service. After that date you’ll be able to reach Veronica through the church office; we’ll provide her contact information as soon as we’re able.
On behalf of the Session,
Janet Blanchard
Elder, Personnel Committee
Rev. John Cleghorn
Pastor