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Another busy week...

If you are like me, you get to Saturday and you look back to see what has been accomplished in the week you've just finished. I've been doing some reflection this morning on this past week, while I've looked forward to the next.

This has been a full week of travel, meetings and planning for our State Convention and pastoral changes. In the early part of the week, I made a trip to Cleveland to deal with business for the International Offices, as well as dealing with one of our local churches pastoral change in that area. At the middle of the week, it was a state staff meeting at the State Offices. Let me say something about that...

In that meeting, we worked on the State calendar for the period of June 1, 2007 through the end December 2008. I will be posting the complete calendar later on the state website at http://tncogop.org and sending it out in the W.H.I.T., as well as in State Convention program. We also discussed the formulation of vision for the work of our churches that will be projecting the next 10 years of growth.

We have a capable and dedicated staff that I am very proud of. They work hard to provide effective leadership. This staff includes department heads and District Presbyters.

The week is ending with a meeting today folks from a church that will have a pastoral change.

As you can see, its been a full week and it has been hard to post every day (which I prefer) to keep our readers up on the travels.

Many of you have told me that you've had a special burden and have been praying for me and I want you to know how much I appreciate your encouragement. We have the greatest people anywhere, and I am thankful everyday that I am here to serve you.

My prayer is that you will have a great Mother's Day!

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