​Today I am charged with giving a State of the Fellowship Address. If you read my Annual Report, you have a decent idea of the state of our fellowship, but this address is different. The Annual Report is a report of everything that happened in the past Fiscal Year, which was April, 2022-March 2023. This address is to give you my assessment of the state of our Fellowship – today. 
Last year at this time, I had only positive things to report – we were coming out of COVID, we were adding a new church, we had filled several open pastoral positions around the Fellowship, and most of our churches were reporting financial and numerical growth. Our Vision strategy was gaining momentum. The word I used last year during this address was “poised.” We were poised to move forward well.