A day of meetings and get togethers

Today I had breakfast with Pastor Greg Thomas of the Cornerstone Baptist Church. He is getting involved in the area and I wanted to catch up with him and welcome him. Greg grew up in the Central Baptist Church and was once a member of thew Lebanon Baptist Church. While in seminary he pastored the Moosup Baptist Church. A few months back he began his ministry at the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Danielson and I attended his installation service a few weeks ago.

I came back to Norwich and met with Sue Kenyon. Sue is going to cook the lunch for us at the interfaith luncheon in December. Say a prayer for her. She is going to have surgery the end of this month but she plans to be back on her feet in time for the December 20th event.

Back at church Sandy was working on things that were needed for meetings of the Mission Committee on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. and the Property Committee and Trustees on Thursday night. She also fielded several phone calls with questions from a number of people about events at church.

This afternoon I went up to Pierce Baptist Home for a meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee. It turned out to be a very productive meeting. Then I came back to Norwich and met with a young woman getting married on Friday at our church. She had a number of logistical questions. Her grandfather will be performing the wedding.

With a half hour to go before our missional church meeting, I ran over to Sue Damien's house to check in and drop off copies of her husband Al's funeral service. It just happened to be his birthday and she was having a tough day.

I finished the day with Curt Brockway and Judy Dupont. We were the only ones who made it to the missional church meeting. We forgot to remind everyone else. We had a good talk though and set the next meeting for the second Monday in December. And here I am finishing the day by writing about it.

Cal