Never Without Purpose
Volunteers of the Month: Forum 2020 Team
What happens when you are asked to be part of the team planning a huge event that gets postponed, rescheduled, and then canceled? If you are part of the Forum 2020 planning team, you cheerfully plan, and then re-plan, the event before doing the added work of dismantling all you planned.
As Forum Director Aly shared with the board, you accept it all with grace because the work we do, especially work for God’s kingdom, is never without purpose even if we can’t clearly see the good that comes from it.
This month, we’d like to publicly thank our amazing Forum 2020 team for all that hard work and grace!
Linda Coleman, Vendors: Linda reached far and wide to find the best Catholic merchants for us to shop at Forum. But don’t despair — we are working on plans to bring you a special virtual vendor fair in a future issue of the Well!
Kristen Foss, Liturgist: Kristen has led the charge to coordinate all aspects of Forum liturgy from masses to reconciliation as well as planning optional daily devotions and coordinating the volunteers to make each of those events happen. And when we postponed Forum in the spring, Kristen stepped up to lead the Illuminated Rosary during our virtual Day of Reflection.
Jackie Henderson, Liturgist Assistant: Coordinating music ministry and overseeing plans for optional active devotions (think exercise and prayer combined!), Jackie shared just a few of her many gifts with our planning team. We are also grateful for Jackie’s fun video posts in our MCCW Community, keeping the hype going.
Rebecca Lockhart, Logistics: Queen of the details and the master production schedule, Rebecca oversaw logistics planning for Forum 2020. Every aspect of Forum was finely tuned thanks to Rebecca’s amazing organizational skills.
Michelle Macias, Hospitality: Quietly wrangling our San Antonio sisters in Christ into a decorating-directing-information-giving team, Michelle led the efforts to ensure that each of us felt welcome in our host city from the moment of our arrival until we headed home.
A special thank goes to those members of the MCCW team who hold regular roles within the organization but went above and beyond supporting Forum: MCCW Graphic Designer Jean Dery, former Social Media Manager Anni Harry, Registrar Sue Parker, and Merchandise Manager Brenda Nonnweiler.
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