Okay, so, our church airs our services weekly on a little St. Louis station at 9.30pm every Sunday and then at 10pm on another station more towards the middle of Missouri. At the end of the program, it always says that counselors will be standing by for the next half an hour, should you want to call for any reason. Then, because the church is not open 10-11pm at night, the phones are transferred to a volunteer’s house.

Tonight is not my night normally, but they were all having the 4th of July celebration and fireworks at the guy’s house who’s turn it is. So since we opted not to join all of them, I said I’d do it.

This is maybe the 5th time the phones have been transferred to my house. I have never gotten a call, and tonight… I get two. How weird is that?

The first was an older man – I only know it was a man because of the name, not the voice. I couldn’t understand half the things he was saying and the conversation was quite weird. I took down what information I could understand and had to explain to him why I was not “in the office” to look at something for him. I do know that he had mailed something into the church and wanted to know if the secretary has gotten it yet and that he thinks we should get on one of the bigger channels in St. Louis… the NBC channel, actually.

The second was a woman who said she is 87 years old and she just wanted to offer her appreciation, it came with her life’s story… somewhat. She’s one of our viewers from the other station, two hours West of St. Louis. She asked me about the current pastor – is the the pastor now, or still associate? Yes. And what about “the other one?” That makes me want to laugh… He’s fine, I assure her. She’s been watching for the last 4 of our 23 running years, she tells me, ever since she moved to this area and she loves us, wishes she lived closer.

So that was my interesting Sunday night, how was yours? It’s 11pm now, so I can go to bed and any late callers will get my cell phone’s voice mail… I work tomorrow…