Pastoral Transition Prayer Focus: April/May 2021

Pray for NL Moore (Search Consultant):

• To clearly discern what they gathered from Oak Pointe’s Congregational Assessment Survey
• To wisely integrate these results into clear and purposeful priorities for Oak Pointe
• To create the best candidate profile for the church to consider as the formal pastoral search begins

Pray for Oak Pointe Church

• Congregation: Unity, Love for each other, spiritual protection, patience…
• Advisory Team: Unity, endurance, spiritual protection, personal walk with Christ
• Pastoral Search Team: Wisdom, discernment, clarity, endurance
• Bob / Shirley Shirock: The transition process, an exciting vision of the year ahead, family

Download and print this month’s prayer focus here.

The Congregational Assessment Survey is Closed. Thank You for Your Feedback!

This assessment comes in advance of our lead pastor search.

Oak Pointe Church is about to begin looking for our next lead pastor, and your input is an important part of this process. Therefore, beginning today, we are launching an online Congregational Assessment Survey.

Assessment Details
The following information is important to understand before you begin.

• The assessment is put together by the Holy Cow! Consulting agency (HC!C) on behalf of our search partner, NL Moore.
• Each active church attendee in your household that is over the age of 16 and capable of responding to the questions is welcome to take the assessment.
• The assessment opens today, February 21, and closes Sunday, March 7. We ask that you take the assessment as soon as possible.
• All answers are confidential. We have no way of matching any assessment to a particular person.
• The assessment will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. Please set aside enough time to complete the survey in one sitting.
• The same link will work for multiple people. For example, if a couple receives the link through one household e-mail, they can both do the survey, separately, from the same link.

Why Take the Congregational Assessment?
As you may know, our church is entering a season of Pastoral Transition and in 2021, Pastor Bob will be passing the baton to the next lead pastor of Oak Pointe Novi. We need your help to understand and describe the health, vitality, and culture of Oak Pointe. The results of this assessment will provide the baseline for our Lead Pastor profile, and we would like to gather input from everyone who considers Oak Pointe home.

As with any journey, we have to know where we are in order to plan the best route to where we intend to go together. This assessment will provide us with the insight needed to call the right lead pastor for our church. With God’s blessing and your participation, exciting days are ahead.

2021 Is A Year of Transition

We begin the search for the next lead pastor of Oak Pointe Church, Novi.

As Pastor Bob has shared periodically over the past year, he is planning to wrap up his time leading Oak Pointe Church in the coming months. But this transition has been in the works since 2018 and a team has been at work behind the scenes praying and making sure this is a successful transition for both Bob and Shirley and the church body.

This past weekend we spent about ten minutes explaining the pastoral transition process and timing during the weekend services. If you missed it, you can watch it again here and find the details listed below.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the 2021 Pastoral Transition, please email Jim Hobbs, our executive pastor.
 

This Past Weekend’s Announcement

From Barry Krick, Pastoral Transition Team Lead

God worked through Bob and Shirley Shirock to begin Oak Pointe Church 24 years ago. They have served faithfully and now feel led to move toward their next phase of life. The Pastoral Transition Team has established the following timeline to seek the next Lead Pastor of Oak Pointe Church:

Planning Phase: 2018-2020

• Three years ago a team comprised of elders was formed to begin preparing for this transition. Barry Krick was appointed to lead this team.
• The Pastoral Transition Team has been diligently meeting, praying, and developing a comprehensive position profile.
• The Team determined that it would be best to hire a professional Christian Search Firm to conduct the search.

Discovery Phase: 2021

• February: Hire a search firm, kick-off the discovery process, begin a congregational survey
• March: Begin the official search
• July: Candidates presented

Selection Phase: 2021

• July: Advisory Team assembled
• August: Final interviews
• September: Candidate hired
• October: Candidate begins

The above timeframe is an estimate, and we trust God to lead the process and adjust the timeframe as necessary. We will be sharing monthly updates on the process with the congregation during weekend services throughout 2021. Thanks for praying with us as we move forward in this critical transition.