I’m hopeful one day soon I will be a Commissioned Ruling Elder in this small congregation called Randolph Heights.

This fall I began the last of the required classes from Dubuque Theological Seminary. The Seminary has taken me through all of the requirements the Presbyterian Church requires for a Commissioned Ruling Elder (or CRE), yet I find myself in limbo. In other words a state of confinement or transition. I’m not yet finished, yet I’m not told how to proceed further.

In the sense I’m confined, I have lost contact with the CRE committee. No returned emails or phone calls from the group of people who are to be guiding me through this process. Originally I was told there were four additional requirements I need to meet in addition to the eight classes required. Yet, I’m confined in the sense that I have received no direction on how to proceed through the remaining requirements. I’m also confined in the sense that although I should have an advisor or mentor to guide me in the process, I have none.

I am in transition in the sense that I am not finished with the process. I desire to be moving forward, either in serving the church in an official capacity or to know just what I have remaining so that a plan can be formed, direction restored, and the confinement ended. I have fulfilled the Church’s requirements, but not Presbytery’s. So here I am… waiting and wondering.

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