by Ed Pettibone » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:52 pm
Ed: Thanks again Tim, in that last sentence, you answered a question that has bugged me for a while. I have wondered why I do not have the same withdrawal symptoms, when we do not get to an ABC Biennial as I do if we miss a CBF annual. The answer is, It is the friends from so many places. At an ABC Biennial I feel pretty much like a stranger, in large part because most of the people I can call "friends" are from Ohio and Upstate New York and I see many of the NY people with some frequency and one of our Upstate NYS Interim Regional Executive Ministers was a former Associate Exe in Ohio, And our new Executive Minister Is from Ohio. But there are not nearly as many ABC'ers here on BL.C.
Whereas in CBF with so many who are former SBCers there are more folk that I have known when I lived in in GA, KY, AL, MS, AR, IN, OH & FL.. And Many of those from my college and Seminary Days, were from an even longer list of additional states. Also here we are active in BFNE and know CBF folk from Main, MA,CT,NY,PA, NJ,NY,NH & VT. And each year I meet some one who recognizes my name from the BL.C boards.