March 17, 2007 — 5:06 PM
Hallelujah!
All that's left to do is the celebrating!
Today I successfully sustained my trials of ordination on the floor of Presbytery. YAY! Everyone I talked with leading up to this day told me I had nothing to worry about, but as I've said before, worrying is what I do. So I entered the meeting this morning with a bit of trepidation.
And that feeling only grew stronger when I watched the trials of ordination of a woman seeking to be ordained as a hospice chaplain. She was called forward first. After reading a bit of her statement of faith the floor was opened to questions and person after person approached the microphone to ask her about things she had written there as well as in her short biography. She answered question 4, then 5, 6, 7... and still they came. Finally someone called for the questions to end. In the end the body agreed to approve her for ordination as a Minister of Word and Sacrament.
As I watched all of this unfold I thought things could go one of two ways: either people had exhausted themselves with all of that questioning or they had just whipped themselves into a frenzy and I was about to face a similar situation. Lucky for me it was the former. I read, was asked the opening question by my liaison, and then two pastors whom I know well got up to ask me easy questions and that was it.
And with that I was approved to become a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). So now all that is left is the celebration of the ordination service. This celebration won't actually happen until the end of next month since we are entering one of the busiest periods in the life of the church - the end of Lent and Holy Week.
So mark your calendars for Sunday, 29 April 2007 at 4 pm at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. That's when I officially become the Reverend Leslie Veen. I'd love to see you there to help me celebrate.
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At 10:45 PM on March 17, 2007, Reyes-Chow wrote:
Leslie, sorry we had to leave so quickly. You were wonderful as expected! Congrats . . . almost secret handshake time ;-)
At 6:55 AM on March 20, 2007, Steven Koster wrote:
Congratulations! The hard part is over. It's been a long road, but you are gifted and called! We pray the Spirit blows through your continued minisitry!
-Steven & Deb Koster
At 12:28 PM on March 21, 2007, Chiara wrote:
YAY! That's such wonderful news. I'm so very happy for you. Erik and I will do our best to be there at the end of the month.
At 2:43 PM on March 21, 2007, Amy wrote:
Wonderful news! But no one doubted it for a minute. We'll definitely try to make it up there. (We might even be living in the area then, who knows!)
At 6:22 PM on March 17, 2007, Stacy Kozakavich wrote:
Congratulations!