I have not set foot in my church since the disastrous Annual Meeting last May. Everything about how that was handled left a horrible taste in my mouth, and I just have not been able to bring myself to go back there. The only thing I still do that has any connection to it is that I continue to visit the elderly lady that I was assigned to visit ( Read more... )

I should already be at church. Instead, here I am procrastinating even heading out the door. I think I pretty much just need to not be there anymore ( Read more... )

I've finally made some headway in lining up ministers, some of them student ministers, for the remaining gaps in our schedule. Jan. 29 is still up in the air, but there's a possibility that a lay minister from New London, who is also a professor of religious history at the Coast Guard Academy (they teach religious history at the Coast Guard ( Read more... )

I was hoping to find a link to the internet radio station that was there, as they took lots of pics and I didn't bring my camera this year. But anyway, it went well. Very well in fact. We had 73 guests, which was a little low but still good, and netted somewhere in the ballpark of $1K. The food was served smoothly, people got enough of ( Read more... )

1. Worked 8am-1pm ( Read more... )

I feel like I got not very much at all done, but yet I did the following ( Read more... )

The discussions that came out of last week's service sounded so promising. We were looking at what we *want* to be doing as a church in our worship, what we want to get out of coming to church. Now, going by the emails, we're back to why we can't get along, with a side order of "the church is just a business." Considering some of the stuff I've ( Read more... )

The craft fair was a mixed success. We had lots of vendors, so the church made some good money. We did not have lots of customers, so the vendors didn't make much, if any, money. Some were very upbeat about it, and sounded interested in coming back next year as we try to turn this into an annual event ( Read more... )

Off I go to set up the tables for tomorrow's Craft Fair at church. The person I was supposed to be meeting to help with this got called in early to work. Bummer. I put out a call for extra hands on the CUUPs list. I hope someone shows, because I really can't move 30 banquet tables all by myself. I may have to settle for arranging the ones that ( Read more... )

I have really got no idea wtf I'm doing. I'm signed up to go to this Bellydance Workshop fundraiser in Cambridge today. How can I go spend my day having fun? On the other hand, what would I do if I didn't? I can't, after years of estrangement, just plop down in Kris's life. I can call her and offer support, and I plan to, but I really, really ( Read more... )