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A Letter from our new senior pastor Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Dear friends, Merrie and I thank you for the warm and gracious welcome extended to us during our “candidating weekend.” We are most excited about moving to Sudbury and joining with you in the joys and disciplines of Christian ministry and friendship. In the weeks ahead we look forward to getting to know all of you and hope you’ll be patient with us as we learn names and faces. We have rented an apartment in Marlborough which will be available to us July 15th. Meanwhile we will return to Sudbury for the weekend of June 8th which is Installation Sunday. Merrie will have to come back to Spokane immediately after that weekend to complete her teaching year at West Valley High School. I will stay on for a couple of additional weeks to begin sharing in worship, preaching, and other ministry responsibilities. I’ll then return to Spokane to get ready for the moving van and to say farewell to family and friends. I hope to be “fully functional” and hard at work with you within a few days of our arrival in mid-July. I am very pleased that on Installation Sunday our guest preacher will be the Reverend Morgan Roberts. Morgan is a dear friend of ours and was my head of staff at First church in Birmingham, Michigan. He will preach at both morning services on June 8th and also participate in the installation service at three o’clock in the afternoon. Installation services are conducted by the presbytery and the installing commission is made up of elders and ministers from Boston Presbytery. I think the services on June 8th, both morning and afternoon, will be inspirational for all of us and I hope you will be able to attend. In addition to our gratitude to you and the Pastor Nomination Committee for all its hard work, I am especially grateful, as I know you are, for the faithful service of Sid McCollum during the interim. Sudbury’s interim between installed senior pastors has been unusually lengthy and for a variety of reasons quite complex. Sid has provided excellent ministry throughout and helped greatly to “hold things together.” I look forward to serving together with him as your pastoral staff. If for any reason you would like to be in touch with me before our temporary arrival in June or permanent arrival in July, please feel free to do so. Bill McIvor I believe there are great adventures and wonderful challenges ahead of the Presbyterian Church in Sudbury. I am thankful for the opportunity to share them with you in our journey with our Lord. Grace and peace, D. William McIvor
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