Installation Service for Will Spokes

This Sunday evening is the installation service for Will Spokes as Assistant Minister of Outreach. We will have a light reception following the service. What will the service entail?


Before the service, a commission of Philadelphia Presbytery will gather to represent the presbytery in installing Will. During the service, following the sermon, I will preside over the commission's role in the installation. I will read questions for Will to answer and then call on all teaching and ruling elders of the presbytery to come forward and pray for Will. (We will not lay hands on him because Will is already ordained as a minister.)

Then Liam will deliver a charge to Will. (Will is right: it does kind of sound like the installation of an appliance.) Then Jerry McFarland, a former Tenth pastor has been invited to give a charge to the session and congregation. He will also be the one praying over Will. Why Jerry? He is a mentor and the father-in-law of Will.

If you do not usually attend the evening service, please make an exception for this. Come out and support our newest pastor.