The Executive Board Meets

This afternoon Forry dropped me off at Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton for the first day of the Fall Mennonite Church USA Executive Board meetings.  We spent the first part of the meeting getting acquainted with the three new Board members.  I found myself sitting by and talking with a young woman who had been good friends with our Daughter Dawn and Todd when Todd was a student at AMBS in Elkhart, Indiana.  What is that thing about there being only six degrees of separation between any two human beings?

Late this afternoon we adjourned to the Mennonite Church USA's newly remodeled offices in downtown Newton for an Open House.  The first persons I saw when I walked in the door were Walt and Clara!  They are long-time members of our home congregation of Menno who had moved to Kansas to be near their youngest son a couple of years ago.  What a delight!  We made plans to get together with them for dinner on Saturday after my meetings are over.

After the Open House, some of the Board members walked down the street to Prairie Harvest, where we had a wonderful meal of Cajun beans and rice.  A nice respite before we went back for another two hours of committee meetings.