dawn speer
Elder
Hello, my name is Dawn Marie Speer. I am married to Scott Speer. We have a loving, persevering, growing marriage of 32 years. Scott has always supported the roads the Lord has led me down. We love to travel and explore new places. I especially love meeting the creator in his creation. I am learning to watercolor paint nature scenes. I also spend days caregiving my great niece and nephew. A gift and a joy!
I became a Christian in this church 41 years ago. This has always been my home church. From the beginning I have always been involved with youth and children. I have a master's degree in education. As I finished my degree in 1995, I became deacon of Christian Education. As I served over years it became a full-time position as Children’s Pastor. I stepped down in 2010 and then served in the Big L ministry to the Mount Pleasant housing project. I also served as Greater Hartford Coordinator with an outside church organization called Fresh Air Fund, which placed NYC children in homes for a summer experience. I have served various ways and on other committees over the years here at church. I believe the Lord has prepared me for this nomination of elder in a couple of ways. I began to feel a stirring in my spirit last year that I was to step into something new. I kept floating ideas by the Lord, but none stuck. I began to think, maybe it is for a time in the future when we have a new Pastor. When I was told I was nominated to be an elder I knew quickly that this is what the Lord had in mind. Another way is I felt a couple of times the Lord’s love for our congregation. The first time I felt it was about a year and a half ago as the congregation was coming out of a difficult time. During worship I felt the Lord’s love and he had me look around at the congregation and I heard “I am well pleased with their hunger and thirst after me.” I am honored to be nominated to serve this congregation as an elder. I am also excited for what the Lord has for our congregation in the coming years. My prayer and hope for the dearly loved people of this congregation is that of Paul’s from Colossians 3:14 “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derive its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fulness of God.” I look forward to the ways I can assist the Lord in helping all who walk through the doors of Wellspring know the Fathers great love for them, their identity in Him and the authority He has given them when they come to know Christ as savior. God bless you.
I became a Christian in this church 41 years ago. This has always been my home church. From the beginning I have always been involved with youth and children. I have a master's degree in education. As I finished my degree in 1995, I became deacon of Christian Education. As I served over years it became a full-time position as Children’s Pastor. I stepped down in 2010 and then served in the Big L ministry to the Mount Pleasant housing project. I also served as Greater Hartford Coordinator with an outside church organization called Fresh Air Fund, which placed NYC children in homes for a summer experience. I have served various ways and on other committees over the years here at church. I believe the Lord has prepared me for this nomination of elder in a couple of ways. I began to feel a stirring in my spirit last year that I was to step into something new. I kept floating ideas by the Lord, but none stuck. I began to think, maybe it is for a time in the future when we have a new Pastor. When I was told I was nominated to be an elder I knew quickly that this is what the Lord had in mind. Another way is I felt a couple of times the Lord’s love for our congregation. The first time I felt it was about a year and a half ago as the congregation was coming out of a difficult time. During worship I felt the Lord’s love and he had me look around at the congregation and I heard “I am well pleased with their hunger and thirst after me.” I am honored to be nominated to serve this congregation as an elder. I am also excited for what the Lord has for our congregation in the coming years. My prayer and hope for the dearly loved people of this congregation is that of Paul’s from Colossians 3:14 “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derive its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fulness of God.” I look forward to the ways I can assist the Lord in helping all who walk through the doors of Wellspring know the Fathers great love for them, their identity in Him and the authority He has given them when they come to know Christ as savior. God bless you.