Your St. Paul Discernment Committee has been hard at work since being installed on 12/8/13! We have been defining our mission and how to best reach out to the whole church to get your input into the discernment process. One of our first pieces of business was to create a logo to help you identify us and the important work ahead. The logo is shown at the top of this letter. Please look for it in the church Sunday bulletin, weekly newsletter, special handouts and on the buttons that we wear as we go about the business of Discovering your individual preferences, Developing a list of the qualities and characteristics we seek in our next pastoral leader, and summarizing the future Direction of St. Paul that your wishes convey. It is the job of the Discernment Committee to enter our findings into a Ministry Site Profile. The all-important Ministry Site Profile will then be submitted to and used by the ELCA Synod to identify the candidates to be interviewed by the St. Paul Call Committee.

During the next several months, please welcome our outreach to you as we try to

Discover your individual vision for St. Paul and Develop our congregation's collective future Direction. Our outreach will take many forms including surveys, adult forums, E-mail communication and one-on-one conversations. In other words, we'll serve as Your voice to God's ear. Individual feedback will be kept confidential and compiled into a representative congregational Ministry Site Profile.