From the Pastor Search Committee

St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church is seeking a new senior pastor, following the 15-year tenure of the Rev. Steven Meriwether. Our experienced staff and deacons and our hard-working committees and congregants continue to make St. Charles a spiritually vibrant community and a distinctively ecumenical Baptist voice in our city. The nine members of the Pastor Search Committee have begun in earnest the thoughtful work of seeking a pastor. As part of that process, we have called an interim pastor who will help guide us in a deliberate and thoughtful consideration of the leadership needs, wants and hopes of our entire congregation. And while the nine of us are committed to discretion out of respect for the search process, please know that we will come to you immediately with any news to report. Please keep the committee in your prayers.

November Update:

The Pastor Search Committee has accomplished much in September and
October, thanks to the cooperation of the congregation.

A series of town hall meetings was held where the committee, along
with Interim Pastor Alan Redditt, listened to members have lively
conversations about our church's current needs and what they'd would
like to see in a new senior pastor.

After reviewing the results of these meetings, the committee will send
out a short written survey to all church members, as well as to those
who might have been scattered by Hurricane Katrina. We hope to
distribute this survey in early November, in time for our church's
110th anniversary celebration.

Advertisements for the job have been placed in print and online, and
the committee is carefully reviewing all the resumes that come in.

The committee is still eager to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
Those that are submitted in writing get the most attention by all the
members of the committee. There is a mailbox in the church office
where you may drop notes, or you may email them to committee member
Michele Benson Huck at shelhuck@juno.com.