This update is brief compared to the previous two weeks’, but we want to highlight two important events In the life of our church. First, as we noted last Friday, our Lead Pastor search firm, Slingshot Group, will be in town for in-person meetings Sunday and Monday with the elders and staff to continue the initial phase of the search process. This is a big milestone, and we are eager to engage in this process.

Second, this Sunday is Vision Sunday at Eastview, and we are very excited to celebrate the incredible ministry that happens through our church family living out...

Growth at Eastview
While this has been a challenging season for our church, it has also been a season of unexpected growth. Recently, we’ve been asked, ‘are you concerned about drops in attendance and giving?’ In our flesh, it’s hard not to pay attention to those things. Yet, despite the trials of this season, Eastview is growing! Clearly, God is at work, which should not surprise us...

Over the past several months the Elders and Advisory Council (Sara Thompson, Jason Smith, Mark Zimmerman, Mark Warren and Tyler Hari) have...

While there are no additional elder updates for this week, more details will come in the near future about recent decisions that are important to the life of our church. In the meantime, we want to remind everyone that Vision Sunday is August 27^th, and we invite our entire Eastview family to gather in worship and celebration for everything God has done and continues to do in and through His church. We have so much to be excited about, and as we have said before, we sincerely believe that Eastview’s best days are ahead.

As part of Wagenmaker and Oberly’s ongoing restorative involvement with ECC, this week Kellye Fabian Story facilitated another one of the scheduled sessions/trainings with the staff. The current plan is to hold similar sessions monthly.

To better understand the extent to which women on ECC’s staff feel valued and/or are perceived to be valued, an anonymous survey has been sent to the entire staff to complete if they wish and remains underway.

The ELT is continuing its work with 3^rdparty advisors to examine the church’s governance policies for robust accountability and healthy, reliable communication between the Elders, Sr. Leadership, and staff. We...