A full and exciting weekend!

• Gosh, these past couple of days have been pretty full. Friday,  members of the Guilford church were sent an email which told us the name and something of the background of the candidate for the position of pastor of the church.  That same day, Katie and Savanna and Brendon all came up for supper on the deck and we had takeout from Panda North. It was a beautiful evening and that worked out really well. We had downloaded a menu, and we called in our order and then Ellen went down and picked it up. The portions seemed unusually generous. Ours were good for three meals for the two of us. While we were picking up the food, Brendon actually went down and had a swim in the West River.  Brrr!

Saturday, we had a meet and greet session on Zoom  to get a chance to interact with our new candidate at the church. We are being asked to keep her identity confidential for a few days until she has a chance to notify her own church that she is leaving. But we were very happy with our introduction to her, and then today, Sunday, she lead the service on live stream and a meeting was held after church, again by Zoom, to vote on her, and the vote was affirmative unanimously. And then at 2 o’clock there was a drive-by at the church where we got a chance to  say hello to her and her wife and they to us. So that was another special occasion with balloons and banners and so forth and lots of excitement. I’ll have more to say about all that after we no longer need to be confidential. Then after that, we drove up to Westminster, and had a short visit outside with John and Cynthia. We learned from John about an interview he had had with a candidate for a position on the faculty at Antioch. He liked the man very much, not least because they share an interest in the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti. Since we got home, we’ve been working on recording music for the Guilford service next Sunday, but we’ve been having trouble getting our voices to cooperate. 

Katie, Brendon and Savanna on the deck

 Congratulations to our new pastor!

If you go onto YouTube and put in a search for Guilford community church, and scroll down, you’ll see this video. We are on the front because we were leading  the opening hymn

Jiddu Krishnamurti