A Season of Transitions // M-Note 5.1.2026

Spring is a season of transitions. Personally, our calendar is full of events this May as my youngest son George prepares to graduate high school. Of course, he is in a season of change as he says goodbye to one chapter and prepares for college in just a few months. But, Jess and I are also preparing for a new season. For the first time in 25 years, we will not have a kid living in our house!
 
In our church, it is a season of transition as well. Last Sunday, we celebrated Pastor Adam Baker’s last Sunday at our Webster Site. He and his family are preparing to move to New Zealand at the end of the month, where he will begin serving Methodist churches on the South Island. Adam has been an instrumental part of our church for the last six years. He joined us in the middle of COVID. At the time, our Webster Site was struggling. We were in a less than ideal space where we had to set up and tear down each week. We needed a new building, a new leader, and new energy for the site. Adam and his family were an answer to many prayers. Since his time joining us, our Webster Site moved into a new building, relaunched worship after COVID, and has doubled in size. On a personal note, so many of you have had your lives impacted by Adam’s compassion, wisdom, and friendship. I am proud that we get to send Adam off to take what he has learned and offered here to new people and communities.
 
I hope you will join me in praying for the Bakers as they prepare for this move. We hope to announce a new pastor for our Webster Site soon, and, until the end of June, Pastor Martin Leathers will be filling in as the Site Pastor on Sunday mornings.
 
All this transition reminds me that seasons of loss also contain seeds of promise. While change in our lives can mean losing something, change also makes space for something new to begin. We often cannot consider new possibilities without saying goodbye to old commitments. As Jess and I prepare for a new season of life, and as our church prepares for a new chapter, I am ultimately hopeful about what God will do for us. As you navigate transition in your own life, I pray that you might hold on to that hope as well, that just as you let go of one good thing, God will begin leading you towards another.
 
Peace,
 
Matt
 
P.S. I hope you will be in church this weekend as I finish our series Christian in Name Only. If this series has resonated with you, don’t miss this last message. I want to thank all of you that have listened or shared these messages with others. We have had four times the normal views of the messages online, and I am receiving so many encouraging notes about what this series has meant. Thank you for that. If you want to catch one of the messages or share them with a friend, you can find the whole series here.