Don't you just love change?

Medieval Help Desk!

Thanks to Danette Clifton for the highlight of the training on the new conference data base.

Annual Conference Post Traumatic Stress

Whew!!! Annual Conference is finally over! (Click here to read all about it.) We finished all our business and balloting with 30 minutes to spare ! And now all that is left besides compiling minutes and reports, bundling ballots, filling out forms, contacting the General Agencies and such is the stress.

Yesterday at the 8:30 service, after we had processed in and sat down, Charles found a pencil and asked me if I wanted to take another ballot. Then in the New Room, someone walked toward Matt with a long strip of stickers and he panicked because he thought it was a ballot. As for me, I'm so glad I can fix my hair and scratch my nose without it being displayed on two huge screens to 1000 or more people!

And I'm tired . . . so I think it is time for another nap.

Hopefully, some time this week, I'll actually be able to post a bit about our conversation with Marcus Borg in Portland.

North Alabama Annual Conference

Well tomorrow I'm off to Birmingham for Annual Conference. Keep us in your prayers as we elect delegates to General and Jurisdictional Conferences, ordain and appoint pastors, and debate a Christian response to the War in Iraq. My prayer is that we won't be my lousy Christian witness of the week as we discuss the resolution on the War in Iraq (if you have only read the version in the preconference book be sure and read this new version of the resolution.) And we are already off to a good start with the wonderful way in which the resolution was discussed and revised in committee.

And a big thank you to the folks who are helping me by serving as assistant secretaries! Thank you Matt, Paul, Buddy, and Kathy!