In January we welcomed Rev. Bart Smith to be our Interim Pastor.  Prior to being called as Immanuel’s interim pastor, he was a monthly supply pastor at Papago United Presbyterian Church in the Tohono O’Odham Nation and Sells, Arizona. He is currently a student in the Master of Social Work program at Arizona State University’s Tucson campus with an emphasis in Advanced Direct Practice in Behavioral Health with Adults. Bart served as the lead pastor of St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church in Midtown Tucson for eight years and, with that congregation and its partners, engaged in a wide range of social justice and community ministries. Before moving to Tucson, he pastored churches in southwestern Virginia. He has over 17 years experience working with a variety of congregations, church institutions, and nonprofit organizations, and has served the wider Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in volunteer leadership roles.

Immanuel Mission Study

A Mission Study is the process that a congregation goes through to seek discernment about how God would have that church to be and to act in the future. It is led by a committee of the Session, called the Mission Study Team (MST). The process results in a Mission Study Report presented to the Session for approval and to the Presbytery Committee on Ministry for review. This process is required by Presbytery before a congregation can elect a Pastoral Nominating Committee and begin the search for a new pastor.

Our report can be read here:  Immanuel Mission Study Report

Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC)

The members of the PNC are Laura Fennema, Chair; Debby Johnson, Secretary; Cheralynn Baylor, Laurie Emery, Jon Friedmeyer, Joey Samoy and Sean Shifflette.

Communicating with the PNC

The PNC Team welcomes your questions, inquiries and thoughts. To correspond with them confidentially, you can email them at ImmanuelPNC@gmail.com.

Immanuel Trail: Calling a Pastor

We created this fun process flow chart to show each of the steps we need to take in this process – currently we are on step 11.