Leadership
Building a community associated with the idea that a cord of three strands is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12
Senior Pastor: Lonnie Wilkerson (bio)
Church Board:
Donna Huckabee, Board Secretary
(Term ends May 2011) (bio)
Karen Kowalski(Term ends May 2012) (bio)
Ray Hopkins(Term ends May 2012) (bio)
Cindy Padgett (Term ends May 2011) (bio)
Beauty4Ashes - Ray & Gay Hopkins (bio)
Children's Ministry - Jan Wilkerson (bio)
Finance - Gay Hopkins
Mission's - Gay Hopkins (bio)
Music - OPEN*
Sunday School - OPEN*
Youth - OPEN*
*Pastor Lonnie is filling this role until a suitable candidate steps forward.
A local minister is a lay member of the Church of the Nazarene whom the local church board has licensed for ministry, under the pastor’s direction, and as opportunity affords, thus providing for the demonstration, employment, and development of ministerial gifts and usefulness. He or she is entering into a process of lifelong learning.
426.1. Any member of the Church of the Nazarene who feels called of God to preach or to pursue lifetime ministry through the church may be licensed as a local minister for one year by the church board of a local church having an elder as pastor, upon the pastor’s recommendation; or by the church board of a local church not having an elder as pastor, if the granting of license is recommended by the pastor and approved by the district superintendent. The candidate must first be examined as to his or her personal experience of salvation, knowledge of the doctrines of the Bible, and the order of the church; he or she must also demonstrate that the call is evidenced by grace, gifts, and usefulness. A local minister shall make a report to the local church at its annual church meetings. (113.8, 129.12, 208.11)
For further information on licensing click here.
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nnifer Wilkerson (2008) Jennifer is a Senior at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) majoring in Pastoral Ministries. This summer (2010) she completed her internship with Pastor Dick Guizar at the Manassas Church of the Nazarene. She is team leader in the Omega Drama Team, a traveling Drama Team from ONU. She also plays string bass in the ONU Orchestra. She has served at Hope through a variety of ways over the past years and we look forward to seeing where God is leading her in her final chool year.
"For I know the plans i have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremaih 29:11