Everyone knows that this is an election year in the USA. Hoosier United Methodists hit the voting booths err... voting cards early this past Saturday afternoon! Apparently Governor Mitch Daniels forgot about appearing before the largest Protestant denomination that is in all 92 Hoosier counties. He failed to appear. I heard that a BBQ drew his attention. He did send someone else to the sheep barn at the Indiana State Fair grounds.
In the midst of worship, while sitting on THE most uncomfortable chair ever made (that tingling feeling during worship was not the Holy Spirit, but blood being cut off to my lower extremeties) we raised and lowered our flurescent orange (for South) and flurescent green (for North) cards. No blue or gray. That would be too old school.
We voted YES to become one Annual Conference for United Methodism in the state of Indiana. And then we worshipped more and we remembered less and we couldn't feel our toes inside our shoes. (It made getting up to receive Holy Communion a tad risky.)
The vote happened rather quickly. I never got to ask any questions though... there was no re-count taken. Since our congress voted that week for an expensive bailout bill, I wanted to know how much the event in the sheep barn cost us as a new conference. Who is going to pay for all these uncomfortable chairs, the flashy voting cards, the sleek bulletin with a sailing leaf boat, the sound and camera crews? We are, I guess. At least we paid for our parking... and a lot more.
Just your typical Saturday afternoon in a sheep barn with the rest of the sheep...
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