St. Andrews Calls
New Senior Pastor

Rev. Richard Kannwischer, the Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio was called to be the next pastor- head-of-staff of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Kannwischer, 36 years old and a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, will succeed Dr. John A. Huffman who has been pastor of St. Andrews for the past 31 years.

Rich’s wife Kelly, also a Princeton Seminary graduate, is Executive Director of Presbyterian Global Fellowship (PGF)

Read Erin Dunigan’s article in the Outlook for more.

Approval of
Our New Vision
for Mission Design

The Odyssey Report was approved at the May 16th Presbytery Meeting. As we become a missional presbytery you can read more about our process of change, as well as the resources that inform the report.

Ad Hoc Staffing Committee
to Make Recommendations

This group is working hard for us to design a new staff configuration for the presbytery. Their work is prescribed and shaped by the New Mission Design for the Presbytery (aka the Odyssey Report).

The committee is moderated by Presbytery Vice Moderator/Moderator Elect Marie Crenshaw. Marie is an elder and the Director of Senior Ministries at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, Los Alamitos. She also has a professional background in Human Resources.

The group has felt blessed with an abundance and diversity of strong gifts for this work. They do appreciate our prayers. They will bring a report to the August 25 council meeting and it will be presented to the presbytery at the September 17 meeting. The new staffing plan is to begin implementation at the start of 2010. This is an exciting, promising, and extremely important work as our presbytery continues to learn and be reformed.