welcome home joe and sharon!

a big shout out to joe and sharon snavely! welcome back to cincinnati! i just can't tell you all how excited i am that these two wonderful people are back in our neck of the woods! they just moved this weekend from colorado to take over my old job at christ church...
so joe is the new oasis youth guy!!!
his official title...which always sounds so official...is director of christian formation.
joe and sharon were a part of the oasis team several years ago and they were a part of the founding team of sacred space our experiential worship gathering at ccg.
joe does an amazing homer simson...in fact at our first jr. high retreat, homer met jesus!
and i knew they were great folks when they survived their first night of volunteering ...which happened to be mess fest! they we're totally into shaving cream and water gun fights!
they truly are amazing people! with great hearts for students and they shine for jesus!
plus they can bring light and love into the messiness of ministry in the old episcopal church! (denominationally speaking)

as i may have said...when i resigned at ccg, i didn't write a resignation letter, i wrote a recommendation letter! and joe was the guy!
so i am so grateful to jesus that he is now back at ccg!
thanks to the roger, sandy, sarah and the rest of the search committee...they keep reminding me that they really did interview other candidates and really did go through a search process...
i gave them a hard time from behind the scenes...and prayed A LOT! and they still chose JOE!
yippee!

if you know me ...it was really hard to let go and not be around the great kids of oasis!
i am so thankful that oasis students and the rest of the kids at ccg will have such great folks to love on them and to follow!

so welcome joe and sharon! and new baby john!
i know god has great stuff in store for you and i am excited to watch as the adventure unfolds!
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Comments

[Lori]

FINALLY!! The best part is that you can now being to have closure, knowing that your munchkins are in very good, capable hands. I can't wait to meet him!

[steve]

lilly
thanks for the message
we will miss you guys at greenbelt as well ... i haven't won the lottery but if i do in the next couple of weeks i will pay for your ticket to fly you all over (actually i wouldn't go making any plans around that) ... spare a prayer for us all over that weekend we have a licence for over 20,000 people and a bigger site with new layout so every aspect is gonna be bigger and more work ... congrats to mac on passing his driving test ... try and convince mac that only one boy child per family is allowed to take the test ... keep us all safe keep hudson off the roads :) ... love to all ... steve

[JTFS]

Thanks for the wonderful welcome and for all of the kind words Lilly. If anything that you said about us is true, it has a lot to do with the fact that you have been in our lives. Your ministry at CCG not only changed (and continues to change) the lives of the youth that you worked with, but lots of us "big folk" too.

It's great to be home...thanks for everything!

Grace and Peace,
Joe