Get Her Words Out

"Dear Meghan"

"We regret that we are not in a position to accept your application for volunteer service this year, but appreciate your interest in Montreat and encourage you to apply in the future if you wish to do so."

Part of me is pissed at them.

Part of me thinks "Damn, I can't even get a volunteer job."

Dear Montreat, Part 2

This week I wrote to the "Vice President, Center for Youth & Young Adult Ministry:"

Sir,

Seven days ago I sent the following email to [name redacted] and have yet to receive any reply.  While it is becoming more and more clear that Montreat does not want my services, I don't think that I am out of line in asking that I actually be informed of that decision and not just ignored.

Thank you for your time,

Meghan Foote

Buffy Season Eight #3

"And then I threw up in my mouth a little. . .'Ethan Rayne?'"

Dear Montreat

I sent this Email to the person who receives the Small Group Leader applications at Montreat.

Hello,

I have to start this by saying that I have been struggling to find a polite way to write this email, because, honestly, I'm upset.

In April of 2006 I received a bulk email from you expressing Montreat's need for Small Group Leaders at that summer's Youth Conferences.  I responded with an email expressing my willingness, but asking you a few questions.  You never responded in any way.

In January of 2007 I sent in an application to be a Small Group Leader at this summer's Youth Conferences.  You have never responded to that application in any way.

This last weekend, my sister showed me the postcard you sent her expressing how desperate Montreat is for Small Group Leaders at this summer's Youth Conferences.  And still, you have never responded to me in any way.

If a decision has been made that I should not be a Small Group leader, despite the fact that I have been a Small Group Leader at 5 previous Youth Conferences and, I thought, performed reasonably well, is it too much to ask that I be informed of that decision?

Meghan Foote

UPDATE:  Two days later and I still haven't heard from Montreat, but I did get my plane ticket to Triennium today.

Wrong Way

I've been attending a U.C.C. church while I'm here trying to figure out what to do next.

The church has very welcoming, has a great music program, and a fairly high-church liturgy that I appreciate and enjoy.

Or, at least, a fairly high-church liturgy that I appreciate and enjoy until it's time for the Lord's Supper.

Between belonging to a home church that celebrates Eucharist every time we come together (the only worship service we have without communion each year is the Good Friday Tenebrae.),  attending a seminary that started our program with a full year of classes on the Sacraments, and preparing for the Worship and Sacraments ordination exam, I've spent quite a bit of time developing my idea of sacramentology.

For me, the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist is almost entirely about three things. 

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