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It was tough sitting through church this morning. They made the official announcement about the new pastor. At the announcement there was enthusiastic applause. I felt my heart race and I felt nausea. It's as if a close friend was dying. I think Karol was in tears.
Since this individual's wife serves on the board that helped nominate him, it struck me as an obvious conflict of interest. Especially since he had been rejected by the previous board. I sent an email off to, what in our church is the equivalent of a Bishop. I told him of the conflict of interest issue and asked if that was "Kosher." I'll see if he returns my correspondence.
Our "Bishop" is a nice enough guy, but I have seen him do some bone-headed things. One of which he had to later retract his position. It may well be there IS a conflict of interest here and he is unaware of it.
The evening of August 10th is when the vote takes place. I am preparing a very short speech to see if I can influence enough people to reject the nomination.
I like to say that I cannot control events, but I can influence them. This will be a supreme test of my persuasion powers - such as they are. I'm going into this expecting to loose and therefore I'm going to pull out all the stops. We'll see just how good my Toastmaster skills are.
A recent email from a friend close to the situation said, the previous pastor (the one that left in December) had told him, this individual would never be allowed to be a pastor for some of the following reasons: Lack of education, lack of experience, and his temperament.
Posted by Ted at August 3, 2003 9:49 PM