Oops – I found this as a draft post that I never finished. Y’all probably aren’t still reading this, but just in case you are, I figured I’d post this picture anyway.
A belated introduction: here’s the group of voting members from the New England Synod! FThis grouprom left to right, starting with the back row: Ron, Nancy, me, Joanne, Elaine, Nathan, John, Steve, Linda, and Lloyd. Front row: Brad, Carmen, Margaret (Bishop Payne), Gladys, Mark, and Sister Virginia. We’re holding up our hands to echo the theme: God’s work, our hands.
This group was just fantastic. We hadn’t really met before, besides the pastors and the bishop, of course; I knew the bishop through my mom, but that was about it. Many of us met at Synod Assembly in May, but I, at least, hadn’t really talked to any of them until we met at the Synod House the Saturday before Churchwide Assembly.
