I like the 9am service...
Jan. 25th, 2004 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenk...it's just so early.
I ended up sitting behind Vicki Glover again. Not suprising, since she's in the choir that sang. She also runs the Norwescon Masquarade, so we talked a bit about cons.
Couple "what the-?" notes: 1) We sing an African chorus during one of the "stage resettings" of the service to three conga drums. Often the drums are played by a family, with a parent or two and a kid or two. Today they were played by three smiling white-haired grandmothers. 2) During the time when birthdays and anniversaries are celebrated, one woman celebrated her anniversary of not smoking. 3) One of the other parishes we prayed for today was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
songhawk's and ursusmarkos'.
Addition: Oh, and Vicki's mother was "delighted" by our bumper stickers. "Oh, this is *your* car?" she asked when I walked up. She decided that I was sufficiently, er, something (depraved?) that she insisted on giving me a brochure for the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
My reading went fine, or so I'm told. I was a bit scared when Robert started by referencing my reading. Even in the short service (which this was) there's a couple readings, and he can preach from either. Nope, this morning was all from mine, so I spared a few more thoughts to "Was I clear enough?"
(For those who aren't familiar, St Mark's is a huge big box of concrete. The organ sounds great in the space; one amplified human voice can get very muddy. The trick is to talk slowly and deliberately.)
But people said I was clear, so good. Robert mentioned the jokes, which made me glad I'd referenced them myself. Basically he talked about diversity and community, constrasting them to the independence and autonomy popular in Greece & Rome at the time Corinthians was written. Also how we tend to either praise or castigate those who differ from the norm.
I ended up sitting behind Vicki Glover again. Not suprising, since she's in the choir that sang. She also runs the Norwescon Masquarade, so we talked a bit about cons.
Couple "what the-?" notes: 1) We sing an African chorus during one of the "stage resettings" of the service to three conga drums. Often the drums are played by a family, with a parent or two and a kid or two. Today they were played by three smiling white-haired grandmothers. 2) During the time when birthdays and anniversaries are celebrated, one woman celebrated her anniversary of not smoking. 3) One of the other parishes we prayed for today was
songhawk's and ursusmarkos'.Addition: Oh, and Vicki's mother was "delighted" by our bumper stickers. "Oh, this is *your* car?" she asked when I walked up. She decided that I was sufficiently, er, something (depraved?) that she insisted on giving me a brochure for the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
My reading went fine, or so I'm told. I was a bit scared when Robert started by referencing my reading. Even in the short service (which this was) there's a couple readings, and he can preach from either. Nope, this morning was all from mine, so I spared a few more thoughts to "Was I clear enough?"
(For those who aren't familiar, St Mark's is a huge big box of concrete. The organ sounds great in the space; one amplified human voice can get very muddy. The trick is to talk slowly and deliberately.)
But people said I was clear, so good. Robert mentioned the jokes, which made me glad I'd referenced them myself. Basically he talked about diversity and community, constrasting them to the independence and autonomy popular in Greece & Rome at the time Corinthians was written. Also how we tend to either praise or castigate those who differ from the norm.
