OK, so I turn up for the 9:30 service at 8:00, since the Vicar has already asked me to be there early.
When I get there, he is having a panic becaue he ahs forgotten that next week there will be no ordained ministers, so they have to do communion this week. (This is one of the shortcomings of the Anglican Church - depriving the laity of its right to preside at communion.) So that measn that they don't need me to lead the service after all. But as a token, they ask me to do the prayers. Oh, and since the people that normally assist with the distribution won't be there owiong to the change, can I do it? Oh, and since nobody has brought any bread (we don't do those wafer things), can I pop out and buy some rolls?
So it seems that I was sent by God to help out in a moment of crisis.
However, one would like to think that these things can be organised a bit better.
Then in the evening service, it is again communion as planned. This time, none of the distibutors on the rota have turned up, and the new warden (whose duty it is to chase them up) hasn't done so. So at the critical moment when they are supposed to go to the front, no one does. and so, I have to step in to the breach once more.
One would like to think that these things can be organised a bit better. But when I am perfect, I can critisise.
At least it wasn't a U2charist!!
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