Blah, still sick. Today I felt worse and didn’t make it through my stay-at-home work day. I lasted until lunchtime. I’m trying to save enough energy for band practice tonight, but I imagine I’ll be sitting on a stool while playing, barely conscious.
Well, that didn’t work – I got back on the computer at 3PM (to type this), and was simply inundated with work calls and emails. I’ll probably be working right up ‘til band practice.
So much for rest.
Bery and I independently sent out some “policy” advice today regarding how to handle missions at church while we are without a full-time, called Pastor. Both of us are in agreement, which is good (me in my role as the head of missions, Bery in his role of newly-installed president of our congregation). I was quite pleased with my email, and was impressed with Bery’s as well. I do hope some good comes out of this. Sometimes, people simply need to be reminded where the boundaries are. They’ll then have one of those “oh, ya – of course!” kinds of moments. Basically, we want to run as much activity as we can through the mission team so they can make a recommendation to the staff, but the final call as to what the church does or does not do must come from the staff for as long as we lack a full-time pastor. It can’t come from me. I’m simply a humble volunteer, not a called, paid staff member.