Miscellany

Sorry I haven’t posted – its been a busy week!

First of all, my report from Williamsburg and Robbie’s National History Day Virginia State competition there. The competition was stiff! Robbie did not place in the top three, and so will not be moving on to the national competition. He is happy though – he did not want to do any more work on this! However, he did win a prize: The Naval Order of the United States Award in Naval History, given to the outstanding entry on any aspect of naval history. That was pretty cool. It was the first award given out at the end of a long day.

After we returned home from Williamsburg, I drove up to New Jersey late Saturday night to preach at one of our circuit churches in the morning. Then Monday morning I drove up to Greenwich, CT for my pastoral circuit meeting. Being in a “non-geographic” district, we sometimes travel far for our meetings, and when we meet, it is for two or three days at a time. All in all, it was a good conference and a good few days with my fellow pastors.

We ended the circuit meeting at Noon on Wednesday, so then it was driving home, swinging through Philadelphia to pick up my father, and then make it down to church for our Ascension service on Wednesday night! (We made it with a hour to spare!) Then home for some rest before picking Dr. Naomichi Masaki up from the airport on Friday for our Good Shepherd Seminar this weekend. Our seminar grew a little this year, and was again very well received. It is a joy to put these on and to be on the listening end of teaching again for a day!

Tomorrow I will try to catch up on many things . . . but did you ever notice, when you use a day as a catch-up day, it puts you behind again for the rest of the week!