Shuffling The Deck…

We are in the zone this summer gearing up for the future growth we are asking and believing God to send this fall. I have learned so much planting The Stone the last couple of years and one of those things is you have to always be thinking of the next moves that are going to enable you to reach more people.

A few weeks ago we moved Malcolm Young (no, he didn’t play for AC/DC) from our Connection Pastor to our Executive Pastor. We are already seeing the results from that move.

However, that wasn’t the only move we knew we were making. This week we moved some other positions around to better utilize everyone’s time, skills, and passion.

Tim May has been with since our first day and has been our Creative Arts pastor since our 4th week. I think Tim is one of the greatest worship pastors in America and I think he is THE best worship pastor for me in America. Tim has been over EVERYTHING that happens in our worship center since day one. He has been over set-up/tear-down, tech team, sound, video, lights, purchasing, bands, singers, leading worship, etc. He has done a GREAT job doing what in our style of church could easily be a 3 man job. However the jobs simply have gotten to much for him to maintain the pace and do it effectively.

This week we moved Tim to Worship Pastor. This is his passion. He will focus 100% of his time on bands, worship leaders, writing music, and training musicians for our future growth and campuses. Tim will be over all musical worship aspects for all our campuses. Our worship is second to none NOW. I can’t wait to see where it goes.

We then moved Amy Young from programming to Creative Arts Director. Amy has been with us since day one and designs all stage sets and runs our Sunday morning services. She will now be over EVERY aspect of our Sunday morning service. She will be over set design, Sunday morning worship, lighting, sound, video, etc. There are very few people who remind me of myself more then Amy. We are so in tune sometimes that it is scary. Because we are so much alike there are also times we want to kill each other like few others. I am excited about her taking this role and she is going to rock it out!

We also have moved Cheri full-time under Malcolm. Cheri is Mrs. Ridge Stone. She has her hands in everything we do and in many aspects has kept us afloat Monday-Friday the last two years. I love having her in the office and have loved watching her grow into what I think is a very good leader. She will be assisting Malcolm in the business junk of the church.

And last but not least, we have tweaked Adam’s role. Adam is on our staff as the Youth Pastor and is doing a bang up job. At this time though that is not a full time job. He is now doing that part time and working with Preston during the week part time in our family ministries. He is helping Preston stay organized and lending a huge hand in that area.

I am so freaking pumped about the future of The Stone. Sunday morning has always been rocking, now I feel the rest of the church is getting caught up.