The Congregational Church of Tryon (United Church of Christ) welcomes its new interim minister, Rev. Rick King, this month. Born in Ohio, Rev. King is based in Colorado and will be serving and working with the Tryon church in its pastoral transition following Dr. Robert Barrows’ retirement in May.

The Congregational Church has played an active role in the Tryon area since 1891, with spiritual growth, outreach, justice, fellowship, and diversity. It is a church that believes life is worth living, people are worth loving, and God is worth trusting.  Thus it continues to adhere to its credo that ‘No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.’ See ucctryon.org, and Facebook as “The Congregational Church, Tryon NC (United Church of Christ)”.

Learn more about Reverend King at www.revrickking.com/.  Here’s what he said on his blog on July 1: “I’m looking forward to my time here. The congregation recently said goodbye to their senior minister, who is retiring after 13 years here, and in two Sundays their associate and his family will leave for a new call to a UCC church in southern Wisconsin. Lots of change here, and my hope is that we can use the unfamiliar territory of change to deepen our walk with God through the interim process, which I look at as more than a fill-in time between settled ministers, and more as a time of personal and communal transformation.”

The church invites the community to come worship some Sunday and welcome Reverend Rick King.

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by Ellen Harvey Zipf