Elders

Jesus Christ appointed His disciples as leaders of the first church. Subsequently, His followers also appointed servant-leaders in the churches that they established. The first and all subsequent leaders are accountable to Jesus Christ for how they lead His church.

In accordance with this, SPC is led by a group of leaders (“elders”) who are ultimately accountable to the Lord Jesus for their actions and decisions. These men, both before their selection and during their service, will be evaluated based on the standards for elders found in the Bible as to their modeling of Christian truth and life.

Our elders function as a close-knit team, recognizing that each elder possesses special gifts and insights necessary for the ministry. Thus each elder takes an active responsibility in the ministries of SPC in accordance with their designated area of service.

New elders will be recognized by the existing elders acting in conjunction with the prayerful advice and evaluation of the potential elders by the entire SPC congregation. The congregation will have an opportunity every two years to evaluate the elders collectively and individually and to consider the possibility of potential new elders. Such an evaluation may also be a basis for stimulating existing elders (either individually or collectively) to greater effectiveness and/or for consideration of replacement of elders.

Efforts will be made to keep the elder team to a reasonable size limit in order to expedite decision making. Qualified elders will be permitted to rotate off of the elder team for personal reasons and may later be reinstated with the permission of the other elders. Elders may be removed due to a lack of modeling Christian life and truth or a lack of available time to give to the demands of leadership.

Since SPC is an elder-led church, based on Biblical principles of spiritual maturity, the final decision on all matters rests with the elders.

Current Elders

                                                      Chairman of Elders

     Mike Clark                                Ron Cleven                               Ray Conley

Dave Huffman                                    Rob Hampe                                Jerry Spence