Food, and things.

[curiouswombat]

It was our minister's last Sunday yesterday - he retires this week. We will miss him, and goodness knows when we will get a replacement, but the ministers and lay preacher from our sister church 15 miles away are going to fill-in, so it should be fine.

Quite a lot of us from Church went out for a meal with him, and his new wife, to mark the occasion. It was a good meal, with good company - but D-d tells me that their spiced red cabbage still wasn't as good as mine...

Last night I put some meat to marinade, then finished the prep during my lunch break today, left it in the oven on timer and... does anyone remember this line from my story Return of The Key -

‘Uh – wonder if I can face eating Bambi’s Pop?’ Dawn thought.

Well D-d and I decided that we could - I have to report that the venison stew was very, very good!

Well, I better start taking some cards and decorations down - D-d and I will go up to my mother's when I finish work tomorrow night, as it is her birthday, so we won't have enough time to do it all on Twelfth Night!

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[debris4spike]

Yes, I stripped the ouse yesterday as well.

The new Minister - that will be a hrad choice. Is it something that the Church gets to choose, or is it left to a committee? That's one thing in The Brethren, we don't have ministers/pastors etc

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The Pastoral Committee of the Mersey Region have to decide, basically, how many ministers they can afford, and hoe best to use them. They have decided that the island can now only have 1.5 whole time ministers between the two churches. As Ramsey have a full time minister we will become partly his responsibility and a new minister will form a team with that minister and the retired ones that we still have as non-stipendiary. In other words they have to retire at 65, but they usually still take some services and do some of the pastoral work as long as they feel able!

The Pastoral committee put out advertisements to all serving URC ministers, to ask if any of them feel called to this position, and if any of them do, then we, as a church, ask them to 'preach with a view to becoming our minister' - so we decide on the person between any who apply.

However, the minister who actually does feel called, without adverts or anything, is not URC, and so currently the PtB won't accept an application from him - GAAAAH! And these are the people who 'firmly believe' that ministers are 'called'.

[debris4spike]

Yes, a Minister should feel they are called in the first place - and then secondly to the place that they feel they can benefit a community.

That should be the important thing in any worship - sincerity, not the correct paperwork!