Today in pictures

At 11:00 p.m., I’ve finally settled into my room at Stillwater Lodge here in Glen Rose, Texas after the last day of Annual Conference and speaking tonight to the summer staff at Glen Lake Camp who are preparing for the beginning of summer camp next week. Here’s a very long day in pictures. [Can you tell I've finally started using the camera on my iPhone?]

We ate lunch today at Glorias, a really nice Mexican restaurant that is located in the old Montgomery Ward building in downtown Fort Worth. The food was great and that whole area is really neat. 

Here’s two pics of the rest of the First Methodist Mansfield delegation near the end of the day. We’re all a bit tired of hearing reports at this point. 

Luckily, my friends from Starbucks kept me energized today. 

Annual Conference always ends the same way with the traditional “reading of the appointments.” During this time, the Bishop and the Cabinet read the names of every church and every clergy who has been “appointed” to all the churches in our conference. The first picture above is my District Superintendent [my boss] reading our names and the second picture is the handout which lists the names of all our pastors. 

This is a really neat time for me because I can remember as a kid that this was the only time during Annual Conference where I got to go sit with my Dad. Mom would take us all up to the seat where he had been sitting all week to hear Dad’s name read again. 

Finally, this is who I got to end my day with… the staff at GLC. It was a wonderful ending to a very long day. Glen Lake changed my life, and it’s an honor to give back to this ministry. 

Peace, 

David