Connections

Hosting the 2005 NFCYM Annual Membership Meeting was a great privilege for me. I had never hosted anything like that before, not for adults anyway! So I was admittedly a bit nervous.

(Above) A little southern hospitality welcomes the members to Savannah; (Below) A test for consensus of the Board of Directors during the board meeting prior to the 2005 Annual Membership Meeting.

However, my experience was made much easier by the gracious assistance of Ruby Mikell. She patiently walked me through everything that I needed to do for the meeting. Without the help of Sherrie Collins, my program coordinator, well—I just cannot imagine what it would have been like. She put in more hours on this one event than the last two diocesan youth events combined!.

My colleagues at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Savannah were of tremendous help. Ann Pinckney, our director of religious education, and Sr. Jackie Griffith, our director of Catholic Social Services, were invaluable. A big thank you should also go to Anna Scally, Colette Kennett, and Matthew Robaszkiewicz for their gracious assistance. I am also very impressed by the gratitude of the members of the NFCYM. So many people took the time to thank me for hosting the event and compliment us when they felt it was deserved. I have rarely felt so appreciated..

Therefore, I would like to return the thanks to you. At one of the prayer services, I played a responsorial song, an original piece called "Let Justice Roll." A number of people asked me for sheet music. Unfortunately I had not taken the time to notate it. Since the meeting, however, I have completed writing a lead sheet and chord chart for this tune which you are welcome to download and use at no cost to you. Simply go to: http://chuckfrost.com and you will see the link to the music on the front page. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the sheet music since it is a PDF file.

Once again, thanks to everyone for their help and gratitude!