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Hello, I am Loron Pellowe, Chair of the Board and serving on the Search Committee. On August 7, the Search Committee advised you that a candidate had progressed to the stage where we would be recommending him to the congregation to be our new Lead Pastor. We have invited him to preach on Sunday, September … Read more

Good morning! I’m Darren Charters, a member of the Board and also serving on the Pastoral Search Committee. In our last update on July 10, we mentioned that we were moving forward with a candidate for the Lead Pastor position. Since that time, members of the Search Committee and their spouses met for informal discussion … Read more

Good morning, My name is Judy Hearn and I am a member of WPA’s Board and currently serving on the Search Committee as well. The Search Committee has been quite busy over the past number of weeks researching and interviewing two potential candidates for the role of WPA’s next Lead Pastor.  After doing second interviews with both candidates the last … Read more

Good morning. My name is Julie Martin. I serve on the board here at WPA and, which means I also have the privilege of serving on the search committee. Today, I am here to give you an update of where we are in the process. We met this past Tuesday to discuss a handful of … Read more

Hi, I’m Matt Seiling, I’m part of the search committee team here at WPA. As stated last week, we were meeting with a potential candidate Monday evening for an in person interview. The interview went well, and though we believe he will be a good senior pastor, we decided, after much prayer and discussion, he … Read more

“As indicated last Sunday, the Search Committee met this past week to prayerfully consider the initial candidate interviews that were conducted. Upon additional discussion, reflection, and a time of prayer, the committee has concluded that it will proceed with an additional interview with one of the candidates. At this time, the committee is still focused … Read more

The search committee met this past Thursday evening. We spent many hours together conducting introductory interviews with three different individuals who are being considered for the Lead Pastor position. For practical purposes, given the distance for some of them, these initial interviews were conducted via Skype. We asked some common questions of all three candidates, … Read more

Good morning! My name is Matt Seiling and I’m a current WPA Board Member. In that role I’m also serving on the WPA Pastoral Search Committee. As a general reminder, the search committee is made up of all members of the WPA elders committee as well as the individuals who have served, or are serving, … Read more

Good morning! My name is Judy Hearn and I serve on the board here at WPA and also have the privilege of serving as the Chair of the search committee. Over the past number of months the Search Committee has been busy identifying numerous possible names for WPA’s next Lead Pastor. Potential candidates were contacted and asked if they would … Read more