Committee Meeting

The first day of our Committee meeting, which only lasted 3 hours, was, um .... BORING!  I could hardly stay awake, and not just because I only slept about 5 hours last night.  I can only imagine the hell the next two days will be.  Our chair and vice-chair are so nice, and trying so hard to make it, um, interesting.  But talk about a lost cause.  Oy.


Christian Education, Church Growth, and PILP.  Yes, PILP.  Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program.  Talk about a controversial GA committee!  Oy.  The good news is that our meeting room, in the bowels of the Convention Center, has Wi-Fi.  REAL Wi-Fi.  So, I illegally posted some stuff on Facebook, checked my email, and updated my Google Calendar.  Oh, and voted on some things.


What things, you ask, concerned that I was too distracted to vote on an important issue because I was surfing the 'net?  Well, how about this:  I voted to approve 4 women to receive the "Women of Faith Award."  Important, yes.  However, they got their awards this morning at a breakfast, 6 hours before we met and approved them to receive the award.  I kid you not.


In the elevator up to my room, I rode with some YAAD's.  Young Adult Advisory Delegates.  They were getting ready to go to the 4th of July Picnic and Fireworks on Nicollet Island, which I will be abstaining from so that I can rest.  I chatted with them, being the friendly Campus Minister that I am, and asked them about their Committees, assuming ANY Committee would be better than mine.  I was wrong.  One poor young woman, a sweet, fresh-faced college student, told me she was on a Committee to Study Committees.  I am not kidding. 


Only in the PCUSA ....


Anyway, my clothes are changed and I'm off to dine with an old friend from when I used to be a better Presbyterian and served on a GA Committee.