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This morning started at 5:00
again. Just my body going back to
its normal wakeup style.
Last night I built a Power
Point presentation to use for the formation meeting today. You can see a copy of it here. We have three different groups being
reached. First is
the pastors, then the business leaders and finally the governmental
leaders. I think the government will
be much more involved than the normal Crown event.
This morning Shadrach and I
left for the meeting at 9:00 in order to get there early and set things up.
It’s good that we did because there
had been a miscommunication between the restaurant owner and staff as to
our reservation. They quickly set up
a room for us and were extremely helpful even letting us borrow their PC
speakers so that we could play the Crown promotional DVD at the start of
the meeting. Special thanks go to
Rev. John Russell for renting and bringing, early, a digital projector for
our use. It costs $25 to rent and
was money well spent. In the States
it would have been $100 or even much more.
The members started arriving
a few minutes early and we had a time of greeting. As more and more arrived we were seated
and the staff brought water for everyone. To honor the time of those who were on
schedules we started very close to on-time with the showing of the Crown
Promotional DVD. After that we took
about 5 minutes to visit and let people make a few critical phone calls
(the Mayor of Monrovia
is on the committee but was gracious to take time out to attend). Although most of the participants already
knew each other we took time for each person to introduce themselves, their
organization and tell a little of what they did. The Power Point presentation started right
at 11:30am and I moved through it punctually but without hurrying. We completed it exactly at 12:00
noon. There were questions by several
of the members and then the decision as to who the chairperson of each
committee would be. Mayor Saytumah recommended that Mr. Perkins of the Vice
President’s office be the chairman of the Business & Governmental
committee and everyone agreed. The Pastors’
committee position was discussed for a few minutes and it was decided that
Dr. Reeves of Providence Baptist would be the chairman. Each chairman immediately set a meeting
date and work was underway.
We hurriedly made way for the
next group that were to use the room we were
occupying. It’s hard for me to
describe the excitement that I have for such a positive and enthusiastic
response to the committee formation. I believe that the Crown Liberia
conference will bring glory to the Father as His children learn to turn
over one additional part of their lives to Him.
Thank you again for your
prayers.
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