Sis and I went to church early to finish setting up for the potluck after church. Some of the people who usually do this were out of town. Sis stayed and helped me instead of going to her own church today.
We had done a good bit of it yesterday. This morning we made sure the air conditioning was working, made the coffee and tea, received the potluck dishes as the members dropped them off on their way to the morning service, cut the desserts and arranged them on plates, etc. We didn't go upstairs to the service. I went up a couple of times to see how near finished the service was. Then we put all the hot things out on the table and uncovered them at the last minute.
There were quite a few more people there than usual, since it was the pastor's last Sunday with us. We ended up having to set up an extra table to seat everybody.
Afterward as we were clearing up and most of the people had already left, we got a phone call that one of our members who is in a nursing home had just died. The pastor immediately went to meet with the family. Later in the afternoon she called me and said there will be a memorial service at the church at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Of course the office is closed tomorrow for Memorial Day, so this leaves a lot to do fast.
I spent an hour or more on the telephone calling all the members to notify them of both the death and the arrangements and calling the custodian to tell him what was needed for the service.
The pastor will email me the information for the funeral bulletin, so I think I will end up doing that on my computer here at home. I don't think there will be time to wait and do it Tuesday morning as there are other meetings and things going on then.
So that's how my day has gone. I'm a little tired right now, but at least I don't have to get up and go in to work tomorrow morning...unless something unexpected happens before then. I sure hope it doesn't.
It was another hot day and as I talked to different ones on the phone, three of them were having trouble with their air conditioners. We had to have a part replaced on ours earlier this week. I guess this extremely hot weather is hard on them.
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