somewhere, God is smiling…..

….because I’ve been tapped to coordinate the women’s conference at next summer’s NACC. This is due less to my (considerable) administrative skills or (much less considerable) love of women’s ministry, and more to do with my status as the only woman on the 2009 Executive Committee.

Also I made the mistake of asking if anyone was planning it. The NACC started this conference-within-a-convention last year and it was apparently a big success with the ladies who attended, but its 2008 champion didn’t volunteer for another year. Understandable, but that left me and my two X chromosomes to make sure it didn’t die in ’09.

So far, however, things are going well. We’re planning to continue the best of last year’s programming, including a special Gathering Spot for women, a full track of workshops and Bible studies, and a luncheon with Tammy Trent. (I think she does stuff with Women of Faith? I should know this.)

We’ll also offer another special tea. Last year this event was exclusively for minister’s wives—only women married to a minister could attend. I love that last year celebrated those ladies, and this year we’ll honor another distinct group—women in ministry, defined as those serving on the staff of a church or parachurch ministry. I’m looking forward to encouraging these women.

But I will need help, so if you’re reading this and already my friend, you now have fair warning that I will soon be calling and asking for favors. And if I don’t know you, but you’d like to be involved, please let me know—especially if you’re one of those gals who just naturally thinks, “You know, this would be better if we had wooden place cards with our names stenciled on them.” Seriously, if you just intuitively know how to MacGyver a frilly centerpiece from baby’s breath and some tulle—call me. I may have the chromosomes of a woman, but I’m missing that gene.