Annual Conference 2010--Day 1

Day 1 is done! Today was pretty calm after i got there. It was quite a trip to make it to Annual Conference with my shakey morning consisting of a missed alarm, a police officer, and a missed turn. I somehow slept thru my alarm and therefore was running late all morning. I then got going and being my normal self looked down at my phone which caused me to swerve and get pulled over. I kept going, made it to Des Moines but missed a turn and spent a half hr finding the parking. Ugh!

Conference started with some great time of worship. A well led worship band guided us through the time together. Following worship was a lunch break in which the 5 of us from Tipton UMC took an hour to decide and then had to hurry back to the conference.

The afternoon was business time, mostly dealing with money. This is always a tricky subject for the church and today was not a change to that. We discussed the impact the stock market has had and how some people are going to be having to pay more for benefits or salaries or buildings....but no talk, no talk of the ministry budget. As my pastor pointed out to me, we spend a lot of our time talking business, but how do we see that our business is the ministry of our Christ Jesus?

How can a faith group, a denominatiion, be loyal to its mission and the greater Christian mission while still being able to operate in our money centered world today???

Also, tonight has been great. Spent from about 5 on with Kindra just chillin around Altoona. Goin to see Matthew tomorrow but stayin here tonight. Im so blessed to have such great friends.

God Is Good

All The Time!

Amen!

Location : 1316 5th Ave SW, Altoona, IA 50009,