June 6, 2007

 

Dear WCPC family:

 

I’m pleased to share with you the good news that your Session, following an enthusiastic recommendation of the Worship Leader Search Committee, has hired Clint Blalock to be our Worship Leader.  Clint is married to Julie and they have two young children, Isaiah and Emily.  The Blalock family will be moving to The Woodlands the first of July and Clint will begin his ministry here that same week. 

 

Clint’s responsibilities  will be threefold:  First, he will staff the less traditional worship service the Session has authorized for the 11:00 hour on Sunday.  There is much preparation needed before we begin this new venture once Clint is on staff, so until we are ready to begin both the 8:30 and the 11:00 worship services will be the same.  While I do not want to give you false information, I do believe by late August and certainly by early September our plan of offering a traditional service at 8:30 under the staff direction of your pastors and Beth Thompson and an 11:00 less traditional service under the staff direction of your pastors and Clint will be in place.  Second, Clint will direct our Youth Choir.  Third, Clint will organize and lead a worship experience on Sunday evenings for our youth, as part of their weekly gatherings.

 

Currently Clint is on staff at the Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. In addition to  providing leadership at both their contemporary and traditional worship services on a weekly basis, he is also the Worship Leader for their Youth Fellowship.  Because of his role at both their contemporary and traditional services Clint brings an understanding of the importance and a great appreciation of both styles of worship.

 

In Clint’s resume he states the following:  “I dream of a Church that enthusiastically recaptures the arts for the Lord, seeking to engage culture with expressions of God’s creation in music, paint, pictures, dance, sculpture, and drama.”

 

I would ask that you regularly remember Clint and his family in your prayers in the coming month as they move to The Woodlands and in the coming months as they begin their life here. 

 

I would like to express my thanks to the Worship Leader Search Committee and to their Chair, Catherine Scheffler for their commitment to this search and the investment of time and energy to its completion.  Their prayer from the beginning was to be lead to the person God had already prepared.  We believe that prayer has been answered in Clint Blalock.

 

Blessings and God’s peace,

 

 

David Jones