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Like
apples of gold
in settings of silver,
so is
a word skillfully
spoken.
Proverbs
25:11
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New Beginnings: Dr. Stacy Rinehart Passes the Torch to Dr. Rick Sessoms
In a Spirit-filled dinner event in Raleigh, NC on February 4, 2008, Dr. Stacy Rinehart officially passed the roles of International Director, President and CEO to Dr. Rick Sessoms. The keynote speaker was Dr. Jerry White, internationally respected leader, author and one of Stacy’s mentors at The Navigators. He likened the passing of MLI’s leadership to that of Moses and Joshua, noting that MentorLink’s greatest days are still ahead.
Surrounded by their family and friends, MLI Board members and valued ministry colleagues these two men glorified God for the story He has started. Stacy acknowledged the amazing things that God had begun through a meeting of a small group of global leaders in 1999. Since that prayerful time, God has moved ML into 33 nations (as of this writing) with several more pioneering efforts coming in 2008. Led by MLI Prayer Director Clyde Hodson, the assembled group prayed for both the Rineharts and the Sessomses.
The commissioning was officially concluded when Stacy washed Rick’s feet - the typical way that MentorLink acknowledges a new leader anywhere in the world.
Rick opened his remarks by sharing his gratitude for David Muir, a pastor who took him as a mentee almost thirty years ago. This man has shaped literally dozens of leaders who are now global leaders - this is why Rick is so passionate about the MentorLink ethos. He closed his brief remarks with this exceptional poem written by Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, martyred in 1980.
A FUTURE NOT OUR OWN
It helps now and then to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a small fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the Church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that will one day grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it well. It may be incomplete but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
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