Today is essentially the kickoff of our ministry year and those elders, deacons, and deaconesses that were elected to, those offices in our annual meeting back in May, essentially began their ministry in that role, today. And we want to bring them before you, but I, I do want to just comment on, on something, at the congregational meeting where we gave you the ballots, with the names of all these individuals, we asked you to pray about how the Lord would lead you to, to, to vote on, on these individuals and, and all of them were overwhelmingly affirmed by the congregation. The lowest vote total on any one of these individuals, the lowest was 98.3%. and I'm not going to say who that was, but.
but that's, I just marvel, like every year when, when I become witness to, to that, the unity that we enjoy here at Cornerstone. It's not perfect. We got a long way to go, but I am extremely blessed to be one of the pastors here and, and to be able to live amongst a congregation such, as you. what I'm going to do is read off the names of these elders, deacons, and deaconesses, and some of them were in the first service.
but if I, if I read your name and you're in this service, I want to have you come up and stand, stand here. Carlos Cuellar, Alvin Davis, and Bill Payne are the three elders whose, terms of service were, renewed and they were, oh, Bill's here. OK. and then some deacons, Chris Johnson, Mike Martinez, Jonathan Jones, Joe Sapko, Chris Kidder, Mario Lemmon, Daniel Ben Chandler, Ron Warkenton, Brian Gill, And Dave Schilling, John Schroeder, Seaburn Boone, John Esserturian, Eve Hansen, Jaap Van Barsel, Sean Feely.
And that's it for the deacons. And then for our deaconesses, Kim Davis, Donna Vincent, Eddie Gill, Mary Schilling, Meredith Schroeder, and Lillian Warkenton. OK. Great....
