A three day recap

It is snowing tonight and so our activities at church were cut short. A couple of our teams had a practice scheduled and they were canceled. Choir met but we quickly went through our songs for the next two weeks and then went home early. Not before we got to enjoy the birthday cake Gwyn Green made though.

Last night three of our basketball teams played. The FBC Heat team had a great game and they won their third game of the season. The Wildcats stretched their unbeaten streak to eight games even though they were short handed. I want to say that the Young Bucks won, but I don't want to say something to jinx them. I haven't heard how they made out so I will let you know when I get word.

I was in Hartford last night in my final meeting as Past President of ABCCONN. The Executive Committee met and discussed the upcoming World Mission Conference that we are hosting here in Connecticut in September. It is going to be a great event an I hope a lot of our folks will be able to attend some or all of the sessions. I am even going to try and get one of the missionaries to come and preach in Norwich.



On Sunday night our kids were invited to join the kids from Central Baptist and First Congregational to cook and eat Stone Soup and watch the movie "Amazing Grace." Fred and two of our kids took part.

Over the last few days we finalized our roster for the Mexico Mission Trip and purchased all of our airplane tickets. We also secured the final mini van for our trip. It looks like we will have fifteen of us going. I'll write more on this in another entry.

Cal

Wider Church Wednesday

Yesterday was Wider Church Wednesday. Almost everything I did had a connection to the wider church. I began the day working on our newsletter. I focused on a couple of articles that looked at the ministry we do in the community. Then I drove across town to a meeting at the Chancery for a meeting with the Annual Way of the Cross committee.

I spent a good part of the rest of the day in Hartford. I stopped in to visit and pray for newborn Christian Fitchett and his mom at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. He was having tests after a scary episode last Sunday. Jerry and Joan were hoping to go home today.

I spent the afternoon at the ABCCONN Office on Bloomfield Avenue in my role as Personnel Committee Chairman for our American Baptist Churches. Chairing this committee is the job of the immediate past President of ABCCONN and that's me. Anyway, we scheduled a time for staff to come in and do a self evaluation on how they had done with their goals for the previous year. I believe it turned out to be a very affirming experience for the staff. We got a chance to celebrate the ministry they do on our behalf.

I came back to Norwich to sit in on a Norwich Church Softball League meeting and then finished the day at our basketball game against St. Johns. Fred Greens FBC Ballers won 38 -29 and upped their record to 5-1.

Cal