Dan+

Annual meetings do tend to make one a bit peevish.
(How's that for an old word as wornout as poppycock?)

However, the last 2 years I have left it in the hands
of the warden to run the meeing at Good Shepherd while
I have kept quiet except to answer questions and to
give my brief report and hopes for next year.

Our Warden, Phil Minton is an attorney and very well
equipped mentally and personality-wise to make sure
all sides are heard while keeping the meeting moving
along.  

I know that system won't work everywhere, but from my
view it is great to have someone carry part of the
load.  By letting him lead most meetings, I can listen
more attentively to what our people are saying, and
spend my emotional and mental capital where it appears
to be most needed. 

Charles+







--- Lexorandi2@... wrote:
> In a message dated 11/24/2003 8:43:47 AM Central
> Standard Time, 
> stmary@... writes:
> 
> << AAAAhhhhhh. Now that I've slammed modernists and
> conservatives and got to
>  use the word Poppycock, I feel better now. (Its the
> morning after the Annual
>  Meeting, after all....grumble, grumble). >>
> 
> DKD:  Excellent slam, Erich+!  I couldn't agree
> more, and you said it so well 
> (and so entertainingly) that it saved me some time
> in writing a response.  
> 
> Also, congratulations on surviving another Annual
> Meeting.  (I haven't been 
> at the helm of a parish ministry for over five years
> now, and I still have 
> nightmares about Annual Meetings.)
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> 
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