Vintage

Dear Parish,

Well, we've got our schedules set. It was exactly as complicated as we thought it would be, but it has all come together with remarkable, um, something or other.  Really, I don't know of a word that would adequately describe the process of negotiating the schedules of 14 people to generate some number (I refuse to count) of actual individual meetings and Eucharists and trips and meals and interviews and tours and, and, and... It's exciting (kind of thrilling, actually), terrifying (have we done it right? really right? really, did we get it right? did we take all the right stuff into consideration?), energizing, exhausting,  and a hundred other emotions/ approaches/experiences. It's all kind of like planning a wedding and doing the matchmaking and courting at the same time.

Dear St. Thomas' Family,

This is Linda Roberson and Sylvia Berta writing.  We are  so excited!  We  have been planning and dreaming and praying about this for  several years and wethink NOW is the time!

We are beginning a praise team of teens that will be meeting  together for dinner and rehearsal every Tuesday night  from March 11th to May 6th to prepare to sing and play for PENTECOST, May 11th. [no meeting March  25th due to Easter vacation] (if you have teens, you may already have heard  the rumor about this as we have been chatting with them the last two  Sundays)