Gate S-8 Seattle – Tacoma International Airport
I am SO excited! I am waiting to board Delta Flight 232 to
Amsterdam en route to Copenhagen! There I will meet up with 13 other members of
the DIAKONIA World Federation Executive Committee for 6 days of meetings. I never
thought I would get this chance as I am the alternate to our second delegate from
my region. However, Ingrit couldn’t make
this meeting so voila! I am
going! Seven of us will meet up and stay
tonight (well actually Monday night, for it will be Monday morning when I arrive
in Denmark) in Copenhagen, then meet the remaining seven members of our group
at the home of the Danish Deaconesses for lunch on Tuesday. We will board the train after lunch and
travel to Gilleleje where we will be guest of the deaconesses at their retreat
center.
Six days of meeting, hearing stories of Diaconal work around
the world, talking about common areas of interest in social justice, and planning
for the next World Gathering to be held in Berlin in July of 2013. I am hoping to be able to post some pictures and
some reflections here each day to let you share some of these experiences. For those of you who are members of diaconal
communities, I am also hoping to entice some of you to begin thinking and planning
on attending that World Gathering. If
you have never been to one, I promise it will transform your experience of this
particular call to the Diaconate that we all share.
Next post: Copenhagen!
