I’ve been helping out at Christ
Church for the last few weeks as the “on call” go to pastoral resource person.
It’s been an interesting three weeks.
I got a call from the Altar Guild
about someone leaving the candles burn down, a couple of email notices about
parishioners who were in surgery or who were in the emergency room and a raft
of calls and emails about a pretty serious “interpersonal problem” with a
person who is new to the church and is “crossing boundaries” all over the
place.
There was some good response to the issues on the part of some individuals,
including me but there wasn’t a structural response by the community. The
Rector not being there must have had something to do with that but my feeling
is that if she had been there, there may have been even less of a “community
response” and more of a “clergy response”. I think this is an area where our
faith communities need to improve. There needs to be a better networking of
members and better structures in place to help rally the members, or at least
to keep the members informed when they need to be.
It was a good experience and
confirmed to me that I’m on the right track and following God’s call.
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