Happy Birthday Polly!

Jackie tells us, 

Yesterday was Polly's birthday so we threw her a surprise birthday party in the bishop's suite!

News from Polly

Last night, Province VIII elected to put my name forward as one of two nominees for the Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop. The whole convention will now elect one clergy and one lay from each Province. I am very excited to be a part of this process. My deepest thanks to everyone who supported me.

Tomorrow the House will elect a new President and, if a priest or deacon is elected, I will likely be standing for election to Vice President. I must be a "crazy Christian", as Bishop Curry would say.

Please continue to keep us in your players.

Polly Getz

Legislative update

Today was a really tiring day, but tomorrow promises to be even tougher because we have a great deal of time in legislative sessions. Today at 5 p.m. was the deadline for filing new resolutions so now we should know the full extent of the matters which could come before us. One issue that we will take up on Saturday morning is an omnibus resolution with lots of corrections and clarifications to several of our Rules of Order – without getting into any details, the Official Youth Presence will be wonderfully vocal, as they have been for the last few days. Please pray for us and for my feet.

Polly

Getting acclimated

I’m so glad I came early – getting acclimated and getting the lay of the land is so helpful.  Doing lots of preparatory work, last minute drafting, reviewing procedures and pending resolutions.  I attended the opening eucharist of the Union of Black Episcopalians – really wonderful service!  Lots of music – my favorite part!  Bishop Gayle Harris preached and she was awesome, and Bishop Waynick of Indiana celebrated. It’s the beginning of the biggest and best coffee hour of the Church and I love every exhausting minute of it.  We will have mountains of work to do but when you really love the work it feels a little less like work.  Pray us through this!

  Pauline Getz