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The time has come for celebration! The Pastor Nominating Committee has been prayerful and patient and has found FUPC’s new Pastor, Rev. Annie McMillan. Pastor Annie will be with us on Sunday, April 8, to lead worship. After worship we will have the congregational meeting to elect her as your new Pastor. I congratulate the PNC on their great work, and I am confident that God will guide FUPC into a great future under Pastor Annie’s leadership.

The time has also come to remind you that the job of an Interim Pastor is to help a congregation through the call process. We did a mission study and elected a PNC. The PNC has done its work, and done it well. So it is time for me to bow out. This is the fate of interims. It is part of our job and we know that going in. My last Sunday will be May 13. Pastor Annie’s first Sunday will be May 20, the Day of Pentecost. That is so appropriate. It is the birthday of the Church universal, and it will begin a new era at FUPC.

So I want to remind you that when my time at FUPC is over I will no longer be your pastor. Please do not contact me for any “pastoral services,” such as baptisms, weddings or funerals. Which is not to say that I will not miss you. My time in LeRoy has been great fun. I have come to know most of you and I appreciate your enthusiasm for God’s work here. I have had the pleasure of working with great colleagues in ministry, Kerri and Rita and Jill, Ashley and Melissa, Mary and Londa and the Praise Team. The Session and Board of Deacons, which change some from year to year, have been consistently dedicated to the well-being of the congregation and the mission of the church in LeRoy and around the world.

I will always hold you in my heart and in my prayers. I know God will bless and keep you. After a while I may pop in again at a ball game or a pancake breakfast just to say Hi! But your future will now be with your new Pastor. I know you will come to love and care for her as you have me.



Pastor L. Timothy Doty