Welcome blackngoldengrl! It's wonderful to see all of you newbies to the site!!
Well, work is interesting. Background: I am Methodist, and in our conference (Dakotas- ND and SD) we have a program called Sidewalk Sonday School. The conference has several trailers that are taken around to various cities/ towns across the 2 states and provide basically a program like Sunday School or Vacation Bible school, but it is an outreach program to kids/ families who may by unchurched. Anyway, we had the trailer in my city for 2 or 3 years, then the 2 Methodist churches here took it over (so the trailer could go other places.) We have 1 family who has come for a couple of years, and when a congregation member took Christmas presents to them in December, the mother requested a visit by the pastor (my dad). Well, they don't have a car and she wanted her girls to start going to church so a couple families have been giving them rides to church and Sun School this spring.
Anyway, I wanted to try and get the girls to church camp this summer, so finally met with them last Monday and got registration forms filled out. 1 is at camp this week, the other 2 are registered, but not sure if they will be able to go because they need transportation. With the cost of gas these days, I'm not so sure anyone will want to take a whole day to drive the 2 girls to the site in SD where the camp is, then someone has to take another day to pick them up. I can't do it- I'll be out of town both days. Actually, I'll be at the ND campsite helping witha camp, so...
But I got a phone call at work yesterday from a lady who informed me that the girl who is at camp this week is supposed to appear in court today, for whatever reason. OOPS! Well, I didn't know. She wanted to know if something over the phone could be arranged, so I gave her the number for the camp and the name of the Asst. Director- a friend of mine. I hung up and literally 1 minute later (maybe 2) the mother calls, and starts saying she completely forgot about the court thing because she was so excited her girl got to go to camp...she told me she was thinking she was a bad mother and would go to jail. No, not likely. Anyway, hopefully things will get worked out! Interesting time at work when you are in the ministry (even though I'm not a pastor or anywhere close to it!)
Those are my thoughts for the day. Wow!
