Sunday: This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! And, we certainly did this a.m.---Rejoice in Worship. I could not even begin to describe how wonderful the worship experience was this morning----the music and the choir especially. I can tell you that it was a worship service in two different venues at the same time. Most of the service was live in each venue--the same music, congregational singing, choir anthems, and liturgy. The sermon given by the outgoing Moderator, Joan S. Gray, was delivered by a satellite link to one venue, and live in the other. The same was for the benediction and charge given by the new Moderator. There were 400 chalices and 100 plates used for communion that had been handcrafted by one potter for this service.
I have extra worship service booklets that I will share with different folks after I get back to Clinton.
After worship, I met my friend of 47 years, Rev. Herb Valentine. We went and had lunch in an outdoor restaurant with a couple of his friends, then did some of the exhibits. At 4:45 I was back in our General Assembly meetings listening to folks who were placing in nomination folks who are wishing to be elected as the next Stated Clerk of the General Assembly.
After those presentations, we all viewed a film concerning our relationships and courtesies with folks who have a disability. It was presented in a "Ten Commandments" format with humor. It would be a good video for a church group to present---like a Sunday Evening Supper Club at FPCOR.
After a group supper, we all went to our first session of our assigned committees. We did an interesting ice-breaker where we had to line up according to our month and day date of our birthdays--without speaking aloud to one another. We discovered one of our folks had a birthday today. So a rousing addition of Happy Birthday broke out.
all for now, I have "homework" for tomorrow. judy g
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