Tuesday afternoon Duane came back after the clergy session ended. The Board of Ordained Ministry gave their report about Training, Pastor’s Course of Study and Scholarship. They went through the rules about nominating candidates for Bishop. This is Bishop Innis’s last conference. The conference will be voting on candidates for the next Bishop. Several top candidates may be recommended for election at the West Africa Central Conference. The tradition is that a Liberian is assigned to Liberia. So only one would be elected. Bishop Innis had Bishop Arthur F. Kulau preside during this discussion.
Then they discussed policies for minimum salaries and pensions. (I realized as Duane shared that I had listed the wrong country for the District Superintendent and Lay Leader who traveled with us from Monrovia. They are from Cote d’Ivoire and are French speaking.) The District Superintendent from Cote d’Ivoire spoke through an interpreter to the session about how his conference has organized their salaries and pensions.
After Duane got refreshed, we went out to the lounge to wait for someone to take us to dinner. We visited with Bishop Hopkins and others.
The Bishop came from his room ready to go to dinner. When he realized no one had come, he made a call and then had us go in one of the cars available to him. After we got to the guest house, we realized that Tom and Bill were not there so we mentioned it and someone went to get them. Part of the confusion over rides was the fact that the arrangers had to go back to the airport to get more international guests.
After dinner, some of the persons went to an evening worship service. We went back to the hotel. It was already after 8 pm. We got a message from Verizon about how much we were spending using the phone so we turned off all the data roaming again.