Exciting Weekend!

Hello all!

This is an update on this weekend...the BIG weekend. A.K.A. our anniversary and the "in view of a call" weekend.

Here is the blow by blow of this adventure.

We flew out on Friday night. Our flight was delayed but we still got in around 10:30 pm. We got to the car rental place about 10 minutes before they closed, and because of that we got a free upgrade to a luxury car...it was all they had left! :o)

We got to our hotel, which was a suite at the Holiday Inn Express. It had a very comfortable California King and a Jacuzzi hot tub in the room. It was great!

We had to get up early on Saturday because we were going to meet the pastor and together we were going to go look at this house (long story). In a nutshell, there was a wealthy man in the church who owned the house and was renting it out to a woman in need, but he pasted away and his wife's caretaker could not handle being a landlord on top of everything else she was doing.

We looked at the house...it was a dive and very scary, but on the up side there was a house a few streets over that we looked at and really liked!

So after the "house-hunting" we sat down with the pastor to discuss the job descriptions. The job Aaron would be getting is Music Minister and Education Minister. That just means he is in charge of Sunday school and few other things.

We talked to him for about 2 1/2 hours and rushed back to the hotel to change into nicer clothes before the meetings that night.

Our first meeting was with the music and education committees...there was cookies and punch at this meeting (food is very important to Baptist you know) ha ha. Aaron did really well answering their questions. He said it was good practice for the open forum meeting with the whole church.

At each of the meetings a lot of the same questions were asked. Ex. How do you choose what music is appropriate and what order to put them in? Have you ever lead a choir before? What is your testimony? Have you ever done visitation before? Have you ever been in charge of the education at a church before and do you think you would be able to do it? ect.

Of course at each meeting after about 40 min they always wanted to hear something from me... so I would tell them my testimony and of coarse brag on Aaron. :o)

After the meeting with the 2 committee's there was a dinner and meeting with anyone from the church who wanted to attend. It went really well...a lot of older people attended this one.

After the meeting we went back to our hotel and crashed BIG time!! ;o) We had to be back at the church early on Sunday morning to get ready for the service.

Sunday morning came and this is the order of events:
1. Get music ready for rehearsal]
2. rehearse
3. rehearse some more
4. Lead the service (including sing a special)
5. stand at the door and greet people as they left the service
6. Rush to the fellowship hall for lunch with the musicians and sound crew
7. Another question and answer time
8. Rest
9. Come back to church and lead evening service
10. Rush to small group bible study at one of the younger couple's house
11. Bible Study
12. Go back to hotel and crash! ;o)

We flew back into Dallas Monday morning.

All in all it was a wonderful weekend. The church people are very VERY sweet. We really enjoyed the time we spend there.

We have to wait until next Sunday (Oct. 7) to hear whether the church voted to extend the call too us. Aaron and I are very excited about the possibility of going...we are still praying that God will direct us and close the doors if this isn't his will.

Please keep us in your prayers... until next week! ;o)

Karice