LOL! Center of the universe indeed. Since he wasn’t interested in Disaster Relief anyway, 2J, I wouldn’t give it another thought. That’s terrific that you’re willing to take on the job of getting a group together. That’s something that guy hadn’t even bothered to do, he only wanted to complain that you beat him to the punch. ;o)
The more I thought about it, the more I wondered if this guy was like head of the missions committee or something and I'd stepped on his toes by doing this without going through him. But the preacher never told me to go through anyone and I can't see what difference it would've made...I'm not putting myself in any kind of authority, just trying to get a group together for training!
I think he might’ve enjoyed having “his” mission team being the only mission team and then all of a sudden, with no warning, he thinks I'm organizing a new one! But I'm not, and he's GOT to know that... but the only way I can explain his irritability is he feels somehow threatened by me!
The thing is, after the folks that sign up get trained, I don't have anything more to do with them...our zone “Blue Cap” will call them personally whenever there's a call to stand-by or activate. The Blue Cap is over a huge section of Oklahoma...in my case the whole NE corner! He is a volunteer, but he gets his info from our State DR coordinator (who works for pay). He gets his info from the North American Mission Board, which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The church's only part in this is to support their volunteers in prayer and sometimes they offer financial assistance (although if a volunteer goes out of state or the country, their gasoline or air fare is paid for by the SBC.) That is handled by the area Blue Cap...not the church.
This guy is gonna die when he sees what I've got planned next. I'm going to put a flyer in the bulletin and a slide in the announcements for the next couple of Sundays. (They run powerpoint slides with announcements on our big screen before church every Sunday.)
I may even send out a mailing.
I discussed this with the pastor before all this happened yesterday. Heh!
One more thing...you know how I said there was only me and one other guy in the church that had DR training? See, if you don't have an up-to-date badge, in case of disaster FEMA won't let you in...which is why I needed to get my training updated and did so on Saturday. The other guy still hasn't and is planning on going with us in October to get his updated. So this means at the current time I'm the only trained DR worker in our church.
This irritable man kept trying to tell me that the other guy was the only trained worker in the church. I kept trying to tell him that I was too (thought it best not to inform him the other guy wasn't actually current and I was). He never acknowledged that I was trained...he just kept saying the other guy was the only guy trained.
Weird.