Chuck Gaidica, the longtime face of thunderstorms, winter storm warnings and cuddle alerts, plans to slowly step away from the WDIV-TV weather desk to become a pastor at a Novi church, Neal Rubin reports in the Detroit News. He's been on Detroit television for more than 30 years.
Rubin writes:
In a pointedly slow transition, Gaidica will remain at his current job until August, then cut back to part-time contributions, focusing on special events and good-news features. He'll be replaced on the evening newscasts then by former WJBK-TV (Chanel 2) meteorologist Ben Bailey, who joins WDIV immediately.
“I’m 55. It’s not the normal time to leave a big job at a big station,” says Gaidica, who came to Detroit from Little Rock, Ark., in 1982. “I’m anxious to find out what God has in store for me going forward.”
Gaidica says he’d been wrestling with the direction of his life for the past four years, roughly the same time he’s been working on a master’s in ministry leadership.
With his degree in hand from Cornerstone University, he’ll become pastor of world outreach at Oak Pointe Church, a congregation of more than 3,000 with programs in place as close as Detroit and far away as Zambia.
