Today was a day filled with meetings. Starting the day out with a very energetic worship service, then a worship, business meeting and then ending with a ministerium meeting. I am always amazed at the worship services at the conference. You have people who are charismatic and then people who won't move even if a tornado came through.The business meeting was very interesting and I am glad the council is starting to move forward and looking to increase its membership. One of the good moves (something I have been advocating for years) is that the days of the conference are changing from Sunday to Wednesday to Monday through Friday in 2010. It is the hope that this will allow for more activities to take place and more things for pastors.
In the ministerium meeting we talked about how there really are no workshops for pastors. We hope that next year there will be several for pastors to help increase their knowledge and leadership in a church. I also found out there has been $17,000.00 set aside just for that and it has never been used.
Tomorrow will also be a very long and meeting intensive day. My regional meeting is not being held until 9 pm and my body is telling me that is actually 10 pm (I am on central time here). I am getting a lot of good information to bring back that I feel will enhance our ministry at Speed Memorial.
