Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas!
As I write this, it is about 2:30 pm Friday, December 25 in Auckland, New Zealand. Back home it is 8:30 pm the night before Christmas, Thursday, December 24. Yesterday we looked around for churches, thinking that we might attend a Christmas Eve service, and were considering Christmas morning services, too. But in the end we just stayed in the apartment. There is a big St. Matthew's Anglican church nearby, but when we looked into it, it was apparent that their idea of the Christian faith was too different from ours for us to be comfortable. Even within the range of Anglican congregations this one is clearly an outlier. We read their website, where they were very helpful and forthright about what they believe: namely, anything you want to believe, as long as it's politically "progressive". It might as well be a Unitarian church. We have found another church more to our liking not far away, so we will visit them Sunday morning.
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About Us
- Tyler B. and Paula M. Thompson
- Midland, Michigan, United States
- Tyler is a retired research scientist (PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois) who worked for The Dow Chemical Company. The last 16 years of his career he served as grants and contracts manager for Dow's External Technology program, involving Dow sponsored research grants to universities, government research contracts into Dow, and a variety of other industry/university/government research partnerships. Paula is a botanist with graduate work in plant taxonomy. She worked as a microbiology research assistant for four years while Tyler was in graduate school, then led a busy life raising 3 kids, gardening, and serving in a variety of church ministries and activities.
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