part four of PART TWO

We arrived back in Cocoa on Saturday, February 12th 'trying' to get ready for Sunday's service. Lots on our minds. Many details to work out. Main one being when and how do we tell our church family? How do we work out this budget issue? How do we get services scheduled to raise this budget? A lot to get figured out and get it all worked out. We're back just a few days to be ready for our annual "Sweet Hearts Night Out" and this one this year was going to be a BIG one. February 14th arrives and we are ready for our annual big night. This was always a ''SWEETHEARTS ONLY'' night. This year we booked the Cocoa Beach Country Club and had our ''Elvis Impersonator" Jack S. He is awesome and from what we know, he began a regular "Elvis Show" in Orlando. He was awesome as well as Earl W. who sang ''ONLY YOU''! Sandy C. and Sally S. were great helps with getting Jack into his ''costume''. Now we're working on NO budget. What we paid as couples was for the use of the facilities and the great meal. We had an awesome night and it, again, was a huge success. We got through February and then came March. We knew we had to begin to let the church know what God was calling us to do. Now dates on all this are a little sketchy for me. I do know our Sunday to tell the Congregation was March 27, 1994. So I'm thinking Tim and I took our head board member and his wife to dinner sometime the weekend maybe before and let them know. We had all four been very close friends for a very long time. He had been the board member Tim spoke with when we first went to Cocoa First in 1984. We felt we had to talk with them face to face first. Then Tim scheduled a board meeting and asked the wives to come. Tim told the board, then all came out and the wives were told. We asked that no one discuss this outside of the board and wives so Tim could let our Youth Pastor, Children's Pastors and Associates know. I had worked for so many years so closely with out worship team, I didn't want them hearing this ''cold turkey'' on Sunday morning, so we planned a big Bar b Que at our house on Friday night the 25th. This was the HARDEST meeting for me. We were all so very close especially our lead key board-est Sandy. Needless to say, this was one of the hardest weekends we were going to face. Sunday morning March 27th came way too quickly. I was sick getting up that morning. I knew this was going to be a ''shock'' to our congregation. We were FAMILY and this was a hard thing to do. No matter you know it's from the Lord, it is still a hard thing resigning to a group that you have loved a long time.