TUESDAY IN CHICAGO
One of my favorite rooms in the Hyatt Regency O'Hare is the pool room -- an indoor swimming pool enclosed in a large glass room. You can stand in the 85 degree tropical room and watch the snow fall all around you outside. I also like our room on the 7th floor with its clear view of the Chicago skyline.

The Board of the Ordered Ministry meetings today were great. Our task is to interview people who are applying for various ministerial credentials in the Evangelical Covenant Church. Today we interviewed a Korean pastor who intends to go to China to reach Muslims ( I won't mention his name for obvious reasons). Among the not-so-rich and famous, we interviewed and approved the ordination of Glenn Kaiser (These recomendations now go to the entire Ministerium for endorsment and then the annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church in June for approval.) There were several others. And the thing that struck me the most about it all was how much the presence of all of these ministers takes the whole Ministerium up a notch or two. I thought that all of these meetings would be tiring but being around all of these people recharges my batteries.

Doug Pagitt is also here and he's blogging about Midwinter, too.