Thursday, October 28, 2004
I’ve Got Friends in Low Places
**Back dated
Yesterday I started out knowing nobody at the conference but a couple of the speakers who would really know my parents. Then I went golfing with 3 guys, all of whom are from the instrumental side of things. It was fun. I played horrible, but one of the guys, who played with us, thought that he was going to do horrible, but he did alright. I think that I made him feel better so that he was then hitting better. He did not feel the pressure to keep up with the big hitters with me hitting like I did and so he hit pretty well.
Then while waiting for the evening session to start a fellow came over and sat down and chatted with me. It was nice to have the company again since I did not meet up with the golf guys after we played. He too was from the instrumental group, but he had worked in all three strains of the Restoration.
Then after our evening session we all pile back into the room that will be our meeting room for the rest of the conference. I was walking to the middle of the room looking for a table, and I heard “…Ontario, Canada.” I turned and looked and read the name tag and it was Jim Tune, the minister from a church I had visited in Mississauga. I chat with him briefly. I need to remember to talk to him about our family camp. I started last year investigating his availability to speak, and it sounded promising. He is a great speaker.
I sat at a table not knowing anyone there. I did not talk much with the guys who were there, but we did introduce ourselves. Then one guy noticed my name tag which has where we are from on them. He was the minister at a church before Mark Owens was. Mark was in Thunder Bay for a year and just left this past spring. I remember having a couple of visits with Mark.
After that, I look around the room trying to locate Lynn Anderson because I am supposed to say “hi” to him there (and he is one of the few people that I know who is at this conference). Suddenly I notice someone at my table, who had just sat down. He was looking at me so I turned and looked and it was Kelly Carter, the former minister from Victoria. Someone I knew! He tells me that Bob Harrington is there somewhere, a fellow Canadian!
This conference is starting to get less intimidating as I discover that I am not alone here. That is always a nice discovery.
Yesterday I started out knowing nobody at the conference but a couple of the speakers who would really know my parents. Then I went golfing with 3 guys, all of whom are from the instrumental side of things. It was fun. I played horrible, but one of the guys, who played with us, thought that he was going to do horrible, but he did alright. I think that I made him feel better so that he was then hitting better. He did not feel the pressure to keep up with the big hitters with me hitting like I did and so he hit pretty well.
Then while waiting for the evening session to start a fellow came over and sat down and chatted with me. It was nice to have the company again since I did not meet up with the golf guys after we played. He too was from the instrumental group, but he had worked in all three strains of the Restoration.
Then after our evening session we all pile back into the room that will be our meeting room for the rest of the conference. I was walking to the middle of the room looking for a table, and I heard “…Ontario, Canada.” I turned and looked and read the name tag and it was Jim Tune, the minister from a church I had visited in Mississauga. I chat with him briefly. I need to remember to talk to him about our family camp. I started last year investigating his availability to speak, and it sounded promising. He is a great speaker.
I sat at a table not knowing anyone there. I did not talk much with the guys who were there, but we did introduce ourselves. Then one guy noticed my name tag which has where we are from on them. He was the minister at a church before Mark Owens was. Mark was in Thunder Bay for a year and just left this past spring. I remember having a couple of visits with Mark.
After that, I look around the room trying to locate Lynn Anderson because I am supposed to say “hi” to him there (and he is one of the few people that I know who is at this conference). Suddenly I notice someone at my table, who had just sat down. He was looking at me so I turned and looked and it was Kelly Carter, the former minister from Victoria. Someone I knew! He tells me that Bob Harrington is there somewhere, a fellow Canadian!
This conference is starting to get less intimidating as I discover that I am not alone here. That is always a nice discovery.
// posted by Eric @ 1:18 PM 
