synod assembly, preaching, council meeting, arm

Well!

Synod assembly was fun and interesting: gave a 2 minute speachy thing on campus ministry and realized I LOVE WARTBURG and even more: I LOVE Wartburg CAMPUS MINISTRY!! :)
Other than that though, synod assembly was quite a bit boring. It was interesting to observe the process of electing a bishop, and it was very interesting to observe the discussions on the various resolutions (read: listening to Lutherans argue about homosexuality). But the treasurer's report was, ah, a bit dry, and the rest of it wasn't all that engaging either.

Preaching went very very well, and those what want can email me and I'll send a copy of my sermon to ya.

I met the new organist here. She seems really cool. By the way: if any of you thought the Lutheran world was small, and it is, the church music world is even smaller: I met a guy at synod assembly who said, "Oh, Wartburg, you must have Karen Black as your professor" (he's an ALCM person), there's a person here at the church who knows a person I met at the ALCM conference last summer and got to know pretty well, (they both went to KU), and the new organist here went to school with Dr. Black. I love feeling like the entire world is connected to itself.
And even more than that, I love feeling like I am connected to all that, too.

Last night was my first ever congregation council meeting experience. (The synod assembly was my first one of those, by the way.) Holy wow. I didn't know 11 people could talk about a kitchen for two hours straight. It was ridiculous. Two hours! And then we finally got around to the other business, which we sort of ran through, so that we finished just after 10pm! (the thing started at 7:30.) Wow.

This week's Theology on Tap (which I keep confusing and calling Phil/Lit) was Stump the Pastors. I love this church.

Oh, and for those of you who are following the saga of my stupid arm, also known as Numbness v. Organist, I had a CT scan yesterday, a follow up next week, and will know more for you later. Although the prevaling consensus is that it's not anything majorly seriously wrong. So that's good.

Until the next