faithfully Megan Foley of the UUA Central East Region (not the assigned region for our UU Community Church of Hendricks County) writes about failures in church planning.

Fengrun “I don’t blame you for being fed up with this fall’s church planning.

We had about a minute in, when, June? when we in congregations thought we were on the path to pandemic freedom. I don’t know about you but I definitely was imagining A Return To Normal Church. And even though we were talking about planning for multi-platform and asking each other for hugging consent and figuring out what to do with unvaccinated kids, if you’re like me you may have been thinking that was just “preparation”, which somehow wasn’t the same as The Real Future.

Now you’re using all that preparation and weathering the rocky seas of Not Knowing What’s Next and having to plan, cancel, plan again, assess, listen, use a plan that you thought you’d never need, experiment, mess up, tweak, listen some more, manage expectations…it’s TIRING and we’re SICK OF IT.

But… in many ways, this is a blessing. Really. Just maybe not exactly in the way you think.”

Read the rest in Better Together.