This busy week in my church life started on Sunday with preparations for
the Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and races. My daughter will be in college
next year so she wanted to manage the event once more before she goes. John
and Jessica made pancake batter early and left it in a 5 gallon bucket in
the church kitchen refrigerator. (Of course, it expanded out of the bucket and
made a mess but the pancakes made with the remaining batter tasted very good.)
Jessica then organized more than a dozen cooks, servers, and cleaners to put
on the annual celebration held on the day before the start of Lent. I wrote about
the 500+ year history of
Pancake Races in my blog before. This year’s event was also fun and a success.
We asked people to donate what they thought the simple dinner was worth and
collected over $241- to go toward the Youth Group’s Mission Trip to work on
cleaning up New Orleans.
Thursday, I attended the first meeting of the
Diocese of El Camino Real 2008 budget committee. Saturday, I ran the
meeting for the Department of Intercultural Evangelism and Mission (DIEM) of which I am the Convener. DIEM is changing
its name and structure over this next year into the Department of Missions. So,
in addition to planning our department’s 2008 budget submission to support the
13 Central Coast missions, we also set up an additional meeting to work out
the details of our new charter.
I think all is prepared for my working from India in the next few weeks. It
will be interesting getting email on these local church activities while working
in such a different place.
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