[Pinky59]

There's an update to all this: the associate Pastor (the one who rejected me) came up to me after church the sunday after the party (see above). Someone at the party must have said something to him about my feellings. He said, "I guess you saw my picture in the newsletter (as a clown)". I said, "yes, I did". He said, "they made me do it" (meaning the staff, I guess). He just kept shaking his head saying "they made me do it" and smiling. I have no idea what that meant. I said, "you should have called me, I would have loved to have helped out". And he said, "yes, I should have". Anyway, I just made him promise me that the next time an opportunity like that came up that he would call me.