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Area Pastors
We undertakes our calling to pastor the people of God seriously
and have developed an embracive and caring system to ensure we know
if our congregation is sick or in need.
If you are a visitor you will have Paul and Denise Thurman looking
out for you and also look after you. We have approximately 20 visitors
weekly in HICC, and they are important to us.
After eight weeks if the visitor is still actively attending they
are passed on to the New Peoples' Pastors, David and Zoë Kampta.
If they continue for another eight weeks and wish to join the church
they will be passed on to an Area Pastor who supervises their area.
They are given a booklet containing our leadership stance and our
responsibility to them and their responsibility to the God and to
the local church. They are then called 'Partners' rather than members
which suggests a secular club, but they are partners in the gospel
ethic.
If they are missing for two weeks an Area pastor will ring them
to enquire if they are well or in need of help, simply because committed
people attend church. We also understand the problems of modern-day
life and the pressures that secular work and family life demands,
so we gauge our enquiry to the individual. 'Care' is a serious word
in HICC.
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