Ooooh, cool!
Hi, all. Drive-by here. Trying really hard to get here, but I have to finish some powerpoint slides today so I can send it to a colleague in the UK to incorporate in his powerpoint so he can submit the whole mess to somebody here in Redmond tomorrow.
It was way more than "cool"! I'll forego telling how we became friends other than to say we first met as "leaders" (however each of us came to be there) of opposing forces in the church. Fortunately I'd been immersed for years in the consensus-building process, and here... it worked: the situation was resolved and our parish not only did not lose any parishioners, most who'd already left came back.