Neat to hear you're involved with the church. When I first started, I was taking classes in seminary and working at a church getting drivers for retreats, recruiting Sunday School teachers, etc. Know some of the "cost and joys of discipleship" that are part of your ministry. You might want to check out our website www.firstcongdg.org because we have a pretty cool rotational churchschool and I think you can see how the classrooms are painted and decorated, etc. I had nothing to do with that but it's pretty cool. Barack Obama is United Church of Christ, we are a very liberal UCC, with 600 of our 5700 churches formed prior to 1776. We are the first mainline church to ordain an AfricanAmerican (1785) a woman(1853) and an openly gay pastor (1972). Check us out at www.ucc.org Sorry for the "ecclesiastical commercial" and thank you for your appreciation of my way with words....I love to preach the best. One day, I will retire and hopefully have enough discipline to write, but right now I'm too busy having fun being a pastor! God Bless, Nikki.

Hi Nikki:
I read your post where you said that I "cracked you up" and I guess, especially with your following statement, that cracking you up was a good thing...Anyway, your comments caused me to check your site here, and since you haven't received any visitor messages, I guess I'm the first. No sweat. I am old enough to be your dad, happily married, a minister from Barack Obama's denomination, so I don't mean to bug you...I guess I just didn't understand what it was I said that cracked you up...Was it just my "way with words?" Anyway, take care.
BillH