Friday, May 26, 2006
WOW! WHAT A LONG TIME!
Posting to this Journal is like a lot of things in life—the longer you put it off, the harder it is to get started. It has been over 5 weeks since I posted an entry. A lot has happened but I don’t know where to begin. My life is so multi-faceted: work, personal, family and church life.
Work is wonderful but has been extremely busy. That’s partly why I haven’t posted more often—but not the only reason. But work (which has included some travel) has kept me from doing a lot of things I would normally do. Church is busy, too. We’re trying to build an addition and that is very time-consuming with meetings and more meetings. One team of people has been meeting with Consultants to select someone to lead us in a Capital Stewardship Campaign. This would be a campaign to teach our people the Biblical concept of Stewardship and get financial commitments to our building project over a 3-year period. This team has also been interviewing companies that would potentially lend the church money for a new building addition in case we don’t commit enough money to pay for the entire cost. If we build what we would like the cost would be over a million dollars.
This is a terrific team and they work together well and make good, informed, intelligent and Biblical decisions. Working with them has been a great pleasure. They have met faithfully every week for quite some time. But attending the meetings and doing between-meeting contacts has been time consuming.
Now we have formed a Search Committee to look for an Associate Pastor who would eventually replace me as Pastor. Hopefully this would happen sooner than later. But the idea is we would work together for a time so we would have a “soft-landing transition” from my ministry to the next Pastor. It has been time-consuming selecting and recruiting this additional ministry team. But we have a great team in place. They will be announced and introduced to the church Sunday, June 4th. That promises to be a great Sunday. But I’ll write more about that in the next Post.
Since my last Journal Entry Karon has resumed her Chemo treatments. She stopped the chemo after Nov. 28th. The Tumor count was down to 25. The count went back up over 130. Karon had not felt well for several weeks with aches and just run down feeling so it was no surprise that she needed to get back on chemo again.
The treatment is given every three weeks but they are different drugs this time. The side effects have been a lot worse than the ones with the other Chemo she had been taking -- numbness and tingling in hands and feet, extreme fatigue and weakness, mouth sores, joint and muscle pain and of course hair loss and extreme nausea.
There have been times Karon has not been able to get out of bed. She missed work a few times – which she hates to do. There was even one Sunday she was unable to get to church. She seems to be better today so hopefully she’ll have a couple of weeks to feel good again before having another Chemo treatment.
Yesterday was her birthday. She wasn’t well enough to go out or anything. Our daughter and her family moved into a new house yesterday. It is closer to us, in the same town but on the other side of town. We all went up there last night for a “house warming-birthday party. We sat around with boxes and furniture in the house but not placed. But we had a good time.
Guess I’d better save something to about which to Post next time. My goal is not to wait so long between Posts!
Jim
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