At Small Church
Two more Sundays (but just one more sermon!)
Two fellowship events (but just one I'm actually looking forward to.)
Four nursing home visits
One more hospital pastoral care event (that I'm aware of at this point.)
New Call Timeline
Three days before COM exam
Fifteen days until congregational vote
Twenty-four days until presbytery meeting
Thirty-five days until I'm officially in new call*
*This is assuming that all goes well in preceding events. The timeline makes me nervous, but if the church and the presbytery are putting up significant amounts of money to get me into the new house before the timeline is complete, then they must believe that all of this is just a formality.
Moving Timeline*
Twenty-three days until the moving truck loads.
Twenty-four days until it unloads in new location. (And yes, you will notice that unloading day and presbytery day coincide. Haven't quite figured out how that's going to work yet. Trying to conserve on the number of trips I take back and forth. There are still many, I'm afraid, between now and August 1st.)
*Not set in stone, but most likely scenario.
As I've been writing this, I've been listening to the constant bickering between Ian and Emily from back in their room. Constant! Excuse me while I go do a happy dance over this next one:
Only 24 days until I can put Ian and Emily in their own, personal, SEPARATE rooms!!!
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4 comments:
having just made a cross country move 15 months ago, arriving just before Holy Week (as in my first Sunday was Palm Sunday).....I will sooooo be keeping you in prayer. HOpe all goes well
Congratulations! And it is a lovely house that you will certainly make into a beautiful HOME! Okay, you are moving near coach, so can we assume that you have met coach, face-to-face, and that the relationship has progressed?? How are the kids reacting to the move?
Wow, this will be an intense time for your family!! God's blessings to you in the meantime and in the new situation.
seriously--presbytery and moving van arrival in the same day? Someone buy this woman a drink.
I've actually had to do what you're doing--not with the presbytery meeting. But I had to attend a function for work (I started work 7 days before moving van arrived) and had to hire (and trust) a colleague's college aged kid to deal with the moving people. It worked out okay. Just really, really really LABEL your boxes as to room location, and give whoever is meeting the van an itemized list of which room various pieces of furniture go into. You can always move furniture around inside a room but moving room to room is a pain.
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