Wednesday (St Sergius)
by Bishop Daniel
on September 25, 2019
- Intercessions and MP in our domestic chapel. Tea, breakfast, crossword, email scanning, task planning–i.e. the usual morning routine.
- Did some final proofreading edits on my synod address and sent the text off to the Communicator so she can begin to prepare some PowerPoint slides.
- Made and communicated a difficult decision about a mission travel opportunity next spring. Regretfully having to decline.
- Reviewed some materials pertaining to the Lambeth Conference.
- Reviewed an appeal from the Diocese of Southeast Florida for contributions in relief of hurricane damage in the Bahamas. Arranged for a discretionary fund gift.
- Forwarded to parish clergy some materials related to congregational development from one of the presentations at last week’s House of Bishops meeting that was actually worthwhile.
- Scheduled a service appointment for the YFNBmobile for when I’m in Springfield this Friday.
- Took a walklet with Brenda, the route of which I leveraged to be able to stop by Pizza Hut and pick up some lunch. Consumed said lunch in from of a mindless TV episode. (If you must know: NCIS New Orleans.)
- Sat intensively with my notes for the readings of Proper 24 until they yielded a homiletical message statement, which will be developed into a sermon for my visitation to St Paul’s, Carlinville on October 20.
- Answered a query from my tax preparer for more info (we’re “negotiating” with the Illinois Department of Revenue).
- Attended to a small pastoral-administrative matter.
- Reviewed both quantitative and qualitative feedback on the ministry review instrument that the Standing Committee and I agreed on and which was completed by about 20 laity and clergy in the diocese. This is in preparation for my meeting with the Standing Committee on Saturday.
- Reviewed a report from our historiography team. I wish I knew of a simple and inexpensive process for digitizing our diocesan archives (which contain enough information, I would suspect, for multiple doctoral dissertations to be written).
- Reviewed a recently-submitted Mission Strategy Report.
- Took another walk, this time longer, to get to my step goal.
- Evening Prayer in our domestic chapel.
