Fred Kellers will be serving there temporarily, helping out local pastor Daniel Porteous who is recovering from health issues.

The Nashville congregation hosted a going-away celebration for Mr. Kellers on his last Sabbath here, Nov. 4. The Kellers family moved to the Nashville area in 1987, and Mr. Kellers served as the pastor in these congregations (with interruptions from serving in all of them simultaneously at various times) until his retirement in 2015. With so much history in the area—and with many of his children and grandchildren living here—he expressed that he’d miss everybody, but that he was happy to be able to serve where he could be of use to God’s purpose. Upon being asked to serve there, he remarked that his family encouraged him to go. It sounded like they wanted to get rid of him, he said, but it turns out “they just wanted an excuse to come visit me in New Zealand.”