Candidating “week” starts Tuesday, April 21
Really candidate two weeks
Rev. Lissa Gundlach is our candidate
Preaching on April 26 and May 3
Lot of opportunities to meet Lissa
I hope you’ve already read the information she posted on our website
Click through items on the Church Calendar
Open meetings are posted with links
Focus group meeting email the convener to get the link
Voting
During the meeting on May 3
Vote online by clicking a special URL
Sign in with your name as it appears in the directory.
Only members vote
And only vote once
If you can’t join the meeting with video you can call into the meeting
If you’re in the meeting but having trouble voting
Stay in the meeting, let us know you’re having trouble,
a Board member will call you to get your vote
If you know you can’t attend the meeting at all
Call Jan Seymour-Ford by noon on May 2
Michael Sallwasser and Jan Seymour-Ford (President and Clerk) will validate the votes
They will announce the votes as well as the percentage.
Our Bylaws require a 90% Yes vote in order to extend a call to a parish minister.
My participation during Candidate Week
I will be taking a lower profile so you can focus on Lissa
But…
I am still your minister
And there is still important work to be done
So..
I won’t join any of the meetings where you are meeting Lissa
But I will join the meetings that are necessary for church operations
Finance Committee, Monday evening
Board meeting, Tuesday evening
Staff meeting, Wednesday afternoon
I’m going to cancel both the church chat, and creative spirit groups
I will probably start those again after May 3.
Michael Sallwasser asked me to continue to do these facebook live messages
Tuesday through Saturday, 1pm
Please give to the church as generously as you are able
2) Message
I was thinking today about the balance between security and a full, rich life
I read an article in the Washington Post about strategies for re-opening schools in countries around the world
“Anything we do when we exit lockdown is not without risk. But once we pass the peak, the balance of risks takes us to definitely gradually starting to reopen schools early in the exit from lockdown,” said Russell Viner, an author of the Lancet study and British professor of adolescent medicine.
“We’re endlessly balancing risks,” Viner said.
This is true for all of us
In all parts of life
It was true before the current pandemic
And it will be true also, after
“We’re endlessly balancing risks.”
There are pleasures in life worth taking some risk for
The quality of life is as important as just having more life.
It’s not possible to live completely risk free
We will all die at some point of something
But we can minimize our risk to the point where we’re not really living, either.
So the question we will eventually have to face is
What are you living for?
And how much risk are you willing to tolerate
In order to make life worth living
658, “To Risk” anonymnous
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk exposing our true self.
To place our ideas—our dreams—before the crowd is to risk loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
To live is to risk dying.
I’ll see you tomorrow 1pm