Mid-Week Musings

January 1, 2025

Suggested Reading: Isaiah 43:19

Dear NBRC Family & Friends,

Thank you for the Christmas cards, kind words, and generous Christmas gift I recently received. Thank you, too, for the words of care and concern spoken by so many of you as I prepare to conclude serving as your pastor. Whether or not I’m your pastor, please know I will think of and remember as you as friends.

My last Sunday with you as your pastor will be next Sunday, January 5, but my official duties won’t end until on or around January 15, 2025. The time in between will be spent tending to last details, calling on those of our church family unable to worship with us in person, wrapping up loose ends, etc. During that time, you are welcome to call upon me for any pastoral needs that might arise as I will yet be serving as your pastor.

Per the current schedule:

 Packing at the house will begin on January 17.

 Loading at the house, at Hamilton Reformed Church, and at NBRC will happen on January 20.

 The moving truck will travel to Wellsburg, Iowa, on January 21, and unloading in Wellsburg will happen on January 22.

 My first Sunday in the pulpit at WRC after the move is scheduled as being February 2 and an installation service is tentatively scheduled for Sunday morning, February 23.

As my time of departure grows closer, so does the realization of how difficult saying “goodbye” will be. But the sense of peace I have in the midst of so much uncertainty assures me that this is indeed God’s plan.

I wish each of you a very happy and healthy new year. Throughout the new year, may each of you grow closer to God and in your faithfulness to Him.

Pastor Ron

Prayer suggestion: As you pray, ask God to prepare you for whatever new thing He might have planned for you.

(On Sunday morning, January 5, the sermon title is The Foundation of Your Hope. The Scripture lesson will be from Ephesians 1:3-14. Scott Mohr will be ordained and installed as an elder.)