From Jim Sillerud
Head Pastor
First Pres. is a wonderful church family. I am continually impressed by its love of God, its love of one another, and its love of doing the Lord’s work. I am also impressed by its strong commitment to meet the challenge of looking forward to what it means to be the church today and what it will mean to be the church in the years to come. The Gospel remains the same, by how we celebrate the Good News of Jesus Christ is a dynamic, ever changing life experience. First Pres. reflects this dynamism.
One of my tasks as pastor is to help provide vision and leadership for today as well as for tomorrow. For me this means preaching and teaching with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other hand. The great challenge of discipleship is to discover and celebrate what it means to be Christian today, where I live and work and play.
As pastor I also have the privilege of loving and caring for people as well as helping people discover their own ministries. This is how the Body of Christ grows and makes a difference!
One of the exciting things about First Pres. is that each week we have more and more first time guests and their overwhelming response is "I’ll be back". It is humbling and as well as fun to see and experience what the Lord is doing among us.
I hope you will be our guest some Sunday soon and check us out. And when you come, please introduce yourself to me. I’d like to meet you!