a hello from chicago

Well I have 20 minutes before our group gets together to watch the TV show House. I have only seen it once but it seems to be a show that many of my group mates enjoy so I have decided to see what all the hype is about and watch it with them. Today (as we do every Tuesday)we had a hospitality meal for lunch. The pastor (Megan Reamer) of the Chicago Community Mennonite Church and the pastor (Orlando Reddakopp) of the First Church of the Brethern came over for lunch. We have a very good relationship with Megan and Orlando due to the fact that their churches are right next door to our house. I find Megan very interesting for several reasons. One is that she is they only female Menonite pastor that I have seen who has her nose pierced! And secondly at age 32 she just recently became engaged but yet she doesn't wear an engagement ring. When asked about that her responses were 1.) It was either both her and her finance wear engagement rings or none of them do and 2.) Her and her finance decided they would take the money that they would invest in a ring and use it towards a digital camara to take pictures of special moments and memories and the idea of memories lasting forever. I thought that way of looking at it was interesting. Well this show is about to start so I will go now.