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Dec. 30th, 2008 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212Well, that was unexpected.
I got a call this evening from a member of the vestry at my church, saying that I'd been nominated to servo on both the vestry and as a convention delegate at the diocesan convention. He wanted to know if it was alright to put my name on the ballot.
(A little background: the Episcopal church is strongly lay-run on some things. The vestry is an elected council that consists of several lay members of the church and the priest, and they're the ones that make the major decisions about how we're going to run the church, within the boundaries set by the diocese and the national church. A convention delegate serves as a representative of the parish to the larger diocese. They're a bit of a big deal, especially when you have a decent-sized church with a large pool of active adults to do things.)
So I was rather flattered by this. Unfortunately, I'm only going to be in town for another year and a half, and the shorter of the two terms for these positions is two years long, starting after the annual meeting in spring. I ended up having to decline, only to get told that they'd have to come up with something for me to do in the church that I could do in under a year and a half.
And here I thought I was doing enough with singing in the choir and participating in the adult christian formation classes. What, should I offer to teach a session?
I got a call this evening from a member of the vestry at my church, saying that I'd been nominated to servo on both the vestry and as a convention delegate at the diocesan convention. He wanted to know if it was alright to put my name on the ballot.
(A little background: the Episcopal church is strongly lay-run on some things. The vestry is an elected council that consists of several lay members of the church and the priest, and they're the ones that make the major decisions about how we're going to run the church, within the boundaries set by the diocese and the national church. A convention delegate serves as a representative of the parish to the larger diocese. They're a bit of a big deal, especially when you have a decent-sized church with a large pool of active adults to do things.)
So I was rather flattered by this. Unfortunately, I'm only going to be in town for another year and a half, and the shorter of the two terms for these positions is two years long, starting after the annual meeting in spring. I ended up having to decline, only to get told that they'd have to come up with something for me to do in the church that I could do in under a year and a half.
And here I thought I was doing enough with singing in the choir and participating in the adult christian formation classes. What, should I offer to teach a session?