Consider me floored.
Last week I got a call from a member of Zeeland Classis’ nominations committee asking if I’d be willing to accept a nomination to the position of Classis Vice President. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Reformed Church, a Classis is a regional body (made up of elder and minister delegates from local congregations) that has the rights and responsibilities similar to a Roman Catholic bishop. I am a reasonably active, but often disagreed-with member of our Classis and since the call came so close to the meeting, I assumed they were simply looking for enough people to fill out the nominations spots on the ballot. In short, I had absolutely no expectation that I would ever be elected – literally.
Well. . . you know what they say about assuming. Turns out, I was the only one willing to accept the nomination. That means, the vote ended up being a mere formality. I have now been elected Vice President of Zeeland Classis. That means that barring anything strange, I will be the only one on the ballot for next year’s presidency.
Let me repeat: consider me floored.
As the saying goes, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
This should be interesting! I would appreciate your thoughts and prayers in the months to come.
Grace and Peace,
`tim
I think that is just GREAT! Of course I do. . .it will be a really interesting couple of years for you as you do this.
I hope I don’t get elected in my present classis EVER to an office. But again, barring anything strange, that will probably happen some year.
And CONGRATULATIONS as well on the dissertation acceptance!!!!!!!