oh, two interesting or memorable exchanges from the conference call on Tuesday with the UUA consultant.

1) talking about our operating budget not being in good shape, and being on financially shaky ground. said interested congregant, who I will call Jim, asked if our programs were really being affected by our lower budget this year. to which the ( Read more... )

so in other news, things are going along at church pretty predictably. in May, the congregation voted to accept an offer on our building/land. assuming the deal goes through - which we have been warned is not assured until the ink is dry on the closing documents - we will be moving into temporary space until we find a new space and raise enough ( Read more... )

Tuesday of last week: Finance Committee meeting ( Read more... )

the meeting last night went from 6:30 to 9:30, and we didn't finish ( Read more... )

two Sundays ago, I did a service at church as a joint venture with another worship associate, about saying good-bye. Noel and I each chose a reading, a hymn, and wrote a ~10 minute sermon. we also divided up the other sundry words/tasks, and Noel had a lovely meditation idea. the delightful thing about our church is that the people in the ( Read more... )

so as mentioned previously, our church has recently begun offering Sunday services year round. previously, as has been a tradition with UU churches from way back, apparently, (I think from the Unitarian side of things), services had stopped at the end of May and started back up in September ( Read more... )

this is likely to be long, and not terribly organized.

the short version is that we had a special congregational meeting last night. this would mark my first meeting as a Board member, versus one of the little people**.

( the extremely long version, wherein I ramble about things pertaining to the meeting and the congregation as a whole. read at your own risk. )

just a bunch of rambly stuff going on in my head. nothing very coherent, much of it relates to Amber, and the upcoming gaming weekend I will be attending ( Read more... )

busy weekend behind, and another potentially busy one coming up ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's already May 12!

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we saw the new Star Trek movie on Sunday, and indeed it was fun and enjoyable!

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I have pictures of very pretty flowers in our yard. they can be found at this link. two of the three irises I bought last fall didn't make it. the other irises that I got from Colette and are planted in a different ( Read more... )