Meetings

Today I will have been in 4 meetings - too much for one day. The day started with my Executive Committee, and in this Executive Committee meeting the agenda was dominated by discussion on what should be said in two of the next three meetings I had today. We discussed what the topics of conversation would be in these meetings and what the individuals we were about to meet could offer The Salvation Army.

The second meeting was with a very prominent businessman who was very generous with his time and advise, and offered us further help regrading the agenda and topics to be discussed at my next meeting, which would be the third of the day. We came away with some good advise and ideas.

The third meeting I had already decided was to be one of the most important since my arrival in Fredericksburg. I had 3 board members, my Financial Development Director and wife accompany me and we felt we had prepared well. The meeting was great, the husband and wife we met with couldn't have been kinder and, though I didn't have much opportunity to share my passion and dream, I was able to talk a little about how we might better serve the children of the community.

Now, as I sit at my desk looking forward to the fourth meeting of the day, I realize that all I have been talking about today is programs for children, and that's exactly what I am conducting tonight. So after all of the preparations, the prayers and hope, the reality is that the most important meeting of all is the one to which I had given least thought. I pray that I will enter into this meeting with the same attitude of hope and preparation because it truly is the meeting that can change a life. Jesus loves the little children.