Monday, April 03, 2006

Monday morning

Last Sunday our pastor informed the congregation that he was being transferred to Salmon Creek UMC in July. There were tears is sadness in the congregation.

This week he announced that his father had died. Sighs on Ohhh, then Julie (minister of education) got up and prayed a beautifully touching prayer of supplication and comfort for Mark to be able to greive and heal. Hardly a dry eye in the house.

Julie is a loving person. I love her prayers, her mind is sharp and her heart is only for the Lord. She is trying to jump through the Methodist hoops to become an ordained minister. She has all the schooling in the Presbyterian church but is switching to Methodist. Her sermons are getting better, still reads a lot but she is getting easier with delivery. I think she will make a great loving pastor of a small church that needs nurturing. I think Central would be too much just because it is a big facility with lots of people set in their ways and we do minister to the downtown people (a challenge in and of itself).

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