For Wilshire Baptist Church
A couple of days before Christmas I was in a music store, waiting in line to buy a tambourine, and getting impatient. But when I heard the conversation at the counter in front of me, I jumped in and offered my two cents because I believed I had some real-life experience to offer.
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I wasn’t going to write about getting the COVID vaccine because so many other people need it and should get it before me. But I cut in line – just stumbled into it actually – so here I am.
The short story is I volunteered to drive LeAnn to her authorized, scheduled vaccine appointment, and during her preliminary curbside screening, the nurse looked at me through the open car window and asked if I wanted the vaccine too. I don’t know if it was because of my gray hair or the fact that it was late Friday afternoon and maybe they didn’t want to waste any doses at week’s end, but she asked. I told her I wasn’t old enough, but she said they’d take me if I wanted it. I said, “Okay.”
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Wilshire had its first-ever virtual annual church conference on Sunday. In years past, there’d be several hundred people crowded into our community hall at noon for a light lunch and then an hour’s worth of reports about the missions, ministries and finances of the past year and the prospects and plans for the new year. This year we couldn’t meet in person, of course, but with at least 140-plus people online, I think we did pretty good.
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