January 23, 2020
Dear Trinity Friends,
As you know, the Rev. Dr. Kimberly L. Clayton has accepted Trinity’s invitation to serve as our interim pastor beginning on March 2. She will be here at Trinity today for initial meetings with our senior staff and session, and she will also be spending time over the next few days looking for a place to live as part of her relocation to Atlanta.
We are excited about Kim’s joining us and are grateful to the Interim Pastor Hiring Committee — Lesley Carroll, Bert Broadfoot, Steve Karasick, Allen Moseley, Susan Reese, Sarah Shoup, and Juanita Watson — for their hard work. And that work continues on our behalf with an offer that if you have suggestions or questions about the interim process, please feel free to contact Lesley Carroll, Chair (
lesleycarroll@comcast.net
); Juanita Watson (
currie1026@gmail.com
), Steve Karasick (
karasick@bellsouth.net
), or Sarah Shoup (
sarah.k.shoup@gmail.com
).
We are currently discussing with Kim ways we can prepare for her arrival and get to know her better as a congregation over the next five weeks. We are also planning congregational welcome activities for Kim in early March. We will communicate these plans with you as they are finalized.
While we are all eager for Kim’s tenure at Trinity to begin, we are reminded that we need to be respectful of her time and attention as she wraps up her current employment as interim at Brick Church in New York.
To learn more about Kim’s background, the responsibilities of the interim and the pastoral transition timeline, please visit the pastoral transition section of the
Trinity website
. We will continue to post all updates there and encourage you to check the website often for new information.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us.
Blessings to you all,
