Making preparations

With just a couple of more days before beginning the Sabbatical I've been finalizing traveling plans. The first week I'm attending a workshop in Nashville. John Bell, head of the Iona Community will be leading one of the tracts on worship. The second week I'll be attending a conference on Worship in NC. It is led by Marva Dawn, a noted teacher and author on worhsip in 21st century.
We leave June 3 for Glasgow. We are going on the first Sunday of the month to be a part of Cranhill Church's monthly communion service. We will spend time with their minister and their congregation. If you'd like to read a little about the Crandhill
Parish in a poor section of Glasgow, go to this site http://cranhillchurch.org.uk/
Muriel, their pastor wrote an article in a journal I read last year that spoke of how communion has led the congregation to be more involved in its community ministry.