To Pleasant Valley

To my Family at the Pleasant Valley Church of Christ,

As many of you know, Kelly and I have been searching for a place where I might partner with a church and contribute more substantially through preaching.  We believe that we have found such a place in the Cedar Lane Church of Christ in Tullahoma, TN, and have agreed to join their ministry staff in the next couple of months.  Thus, it is with many mixed feelings that I must resign from my position here at Pleasant Valley.

Pleasant Valley has been such a good home for me, and for my family.  Your love,  encouragement, and support has been such a great blessing, and God has used your faith and character to shape me.  For the past eleven years we have lived together in community, under the Lordship of Jesus, and my life has been abundantly blessed by your friendship.  We will miss you all very much.

This church is poised to do much good for the sake of God’s kingdom, as I testify that you have constantly striven to do as long as I’ve known you.  You are passionate for the Lord, and you share the love of Jesus with the world around you.  In a thousand ways I have been the recipient of that love, and am fully aware that I have been given much.  As Kelly, Micah and Izzy and I transition into a new phase of our life, we ask that you please pray for us, that we may give love as freely as we received it here.  My prayer for you will be the same, recognizing that all of us surely fall under the words, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.”  May God be with you, and to God be the glory.

Grace and Peace,

Steven Hovater