SUNDAY

Driving along one of the main north/south roads through Shawnee I saw a new painted pony has come to town.  It is outside an Energy Company, which I think is also new.

I went to the adult Sunday School at Emmanuel, then I was leading the intercessions in the 10.30 Service.

It is Yom Kippur and this afternoon the Rabbi from Seminole came and spoke to us, with a small group of people we had met when we went there at Rosh Hashanah, all very nice people.   Perhaps it is me but I thought she looked young to be an ordained Rabbi.  They have to graduate from college then spend five years training for the Rabbinate, and spend one year in Israel.

Rabbi Tina is on the left.  Next to her is Fr Gary.  In the middle is Melvin Moran, the leader of their congregation and an oil man who married an English wife he met in London in the war. She is a lovely person - when I met her last year we got on like a house on fire.   She started a very successful children's museum in Seminole I have been meaning to visit, and am absolutely going to as soon as possible.  I was disappointed not to see her this year at Rosh Hashanah but Melvin said  she had left a tap running,  and the house flooded; she'd spent the day mopping it up so was too exhausted by the evening to come out.  She doesn't look it but must be very elderly to have been a young woman in the war.  I am elderly and I was just a child.  Next to Melvin is Tim Sean, our youth minister.