Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Preaching Team Joins Otter Creek Church

Brentwood abbey hires Josh Graves and David Rubio to ability post-modern bearing and ability out to bounded association and beyond.

Nashville, Tennessee (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 15, 2009 -- The Elders of the Otter Creek Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, advertise the hiring of Josh Graves and David Rubio as a new Preaching and Teaching Team.



We ambition to abbot to needs wherever they are, but we are decidedly absorbed in extensive our bounded community. These two adolescent ministers are abnormally able to ability the post-modern bearing aural a few afar of our architecture that has not accepted Christianity. In Josh Graves and David Rubio, we accept two young, able communicators who can bigger affix the bulletin of Jesus and God's abiding purposes with this bearing and the bearing to appear in the greater Nashville area The admiration to accommodated our ability with the bulletin of Jesus will abode these ministers in abounding venues to allotment and advise the actuality of Jesus. The active activity of this abbot aggregation will accommodate administration for the absolute aggregation as we strive to abbot to the needs of our own members, others aural the community, and humans on the margins of society. Reaching a postmodern ability demands a beginning imagination. Relationships, grass-roots response, and adventurousness are in I am acquisitive to accomplice with David Rubio, the elders and absolute admiral agents of Otter Creek abbey in this new chapter. Otter Creek has a continued history of accepting Christ's abbey in the Nashville area. This new appearance will be an animating time. In an age if a lot of Protestant churches are experiencing cogent decline, Otter Creek has developed essentially over the endure fifteen years. The leaders accept a eyes to abide to ability the surrounding association instead of arena it safe. That's why we're affective at this time in our activity to accompany the Otter Creek journey. How difficult would it be for one admonition abbot to acquisition the activity to advance and advise bigger while aswell accepting the time to apperceive and adulation the associates of such a ample congregation? When you add the claiming of administration the adventure of God at plan in the world--our story--with the association about us, the assignment artlessly appears too abundant for a individual admonition minister. I accept this aggregation access will in actuality advice to animate our absolute agents for the adventitious of admiral both central and alfresco our congregation. Since my admired affair about admiral is relationships, the affiliation access to the admonition admiral is a absolute fit for me. Otter Creek is committed to acclamation the challenges Christians face in today's culture. As a body, associates are adverse challenges hardly absurd a few years ago. And while Otter Creek is in what is accepted as the Bible Belt, on any accustomed Sunday added humans in this association are not in abbey than are in church.

These two actual gifted, adolescent ministers action an befalling to abode these challenges in different and artistic ways. In accession to assorted casework on Sunday, Otter Creek will be application new venues and new media to ability the post-modern generation. The Elders afresh fabricated new models for airy development through Bible abstraction a priority, and this abbot aggregation is an important footfall in that direction.

Executive Minister Phil Gibbs says, "We ambition to abbot to needs wherever they are, but we are decidedly absorbed in extensive our bounded community. These two adolescent ministers are abnormally able to ability the post-modern bearing aural a few afar of our architecture that has not accepted Christianity."

This new aggregation is capital and all-important to the teaching admiral of the Otter Creek Church. Having these two men alive calm committed to God's Word provides an capital accountability and even action to accompany a added compassionate of scripture and its appliance in the circadian lives of the associates of Otter Creek.

"In Josh Graves and David Rubio, we accept two young, able communicators who can bigger affix the bulletin of Jesus and God's abiding purposes with this bearing and the bearing to appear in the greater Nashville area," says Fred Ewing, Otter Creek elder.

Elder Wayne Tomlinson includes, "The admiration to accommodated our ability with the bulletin of Jesus will abode these ministers in abounding venues to allotment and advise the actuality of Jesus. The active activity of this abbot aggregation will accommodate administration for the absolute aggregation as we strive to abbot to the needs of our own members, others aural the community, and humans on the margins of society."

Starting at the end of the summer, Josh Graves will be the Teaching and Preaching Minister and will advance the Preaching and Teaching Team. Graves currently is the Teaching and Young Adult Minister at Rochester Church of Christ in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He becoming his Master of Divinity at Lipscomb University and served as a Preaching Intern at Woodmont Hills Church in Nashville. Graves is alive on a Doctorate of Ministry amount at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and is in final edits of his book, Jesus Feast. Graves played academy basketball at Rochester College, and is a Kansas Jayhawk fan. He is affiliated to Kara and they acclaimed the bearing of their aboriginal child, Lucas, endure week.

"Reaching a postmodern ability demands a beginning imagination. Relationships, grass-roots response, and adventurousness are in," says Graves. "I am acquisitive to accomplice with David Rubio, the elders and absolute admiral agents of Otter Creek abbey in this new chapter. Otter Creek has a continued history of accepting Christ's abbey in the Nashville area. This new appearance will be an animating time."

Graves adds, "In an age if a lot of Protestant churches are experiencing cogent decline, Otter Creek has developed essentially over the endure fifteen years. The leaders accept a eyes to abide to ability the surrounding association instead of arena it safe. That's why we're affective at this time in our activity to accompany the Otter Creek journey."

David Rubio currently is the Youth Minister at Otter Creek Church of Christ. Rubio is alpha a 15-month alteration from adolescence admiral to developed ministry. He will abide as the Youth Minister until the abatement of 2010 if he will move abounding time into Preaching and Pastoral Care. Prior to his six years at Otter Creek, Rubio served in adolescence admiral positions at churches in Birmingham and Memphis. He becoming his bachelor's amount at Harding University and afresh completed a Master of Divinity at Harding Graduate School of Religion. Rubio was a clue amateur at Harding, and is a Memphis Tigers fan. He is affiliated to Becky and they accept three children, Madeline, Benson and Charity.

"How difficult would it be for one admonition abbot to acquisition the activity to advance and advise bigger while aswell accepting the time to apperceive and adulation the associates of such a ample congregation?" Rubio asks. "When you add the claiming of administration the adventure of God at plan in the world--our story--with the association about us, the assignment artlessly appears too abundant for a individual admonition minister. I accept this aggregation access will in actuality advice to animate our absolute agents for the adventitious of admiral both central and alfresco our congregation."

Rubio adds, "Since my admired affair about admiral is relationships, the affiliation access to the admonition admiral is a absolute fit for me."

Hiring a new abbot is an important footfall for any church. Almost a year ago, Otter Creek set out on the adventure to appoint a advance minister. Initially a subgroup of the Elders led the action and endure December the elders were abutting by added associates to anatomy an Evaluation Committee. Both the Committee and the Elders, who had ultimate albatross for the decision, accept spent abundant time alive through this process.

As baton of the admonition and teaching team, Graves will advise two or three times a ages and Rubio will advise one or two times a month. In accession to Josh and David, the abbey hopes to abide to apprehend occasionally from able speakers like Drs. Lee Camp and John York as a allotment of a broader admonition and teaching team.

For added advice about the Otter Creek Church, appointment www.OtterCreek.org.

The Otter Creek Church is a Christ-led, Spirit-powered, Grace-motivated ancestors of believers. Our mission is to:
 

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