Sorry--wrong word. Yeah, I don't know what word would work.
I love the ice cream factory stuff--cracks me up. I guess I just worry about what it looks like to miss people from this group out loud when they haven't been here (I don't know Geoff. I came occasionally from 2000-2004 and got more active in 2005).
I don't know--it makes me sad, like people don't want to be our friends, lol.
I guess I have had really bad personally experiences of people at churches I've been a part of who long for folks who left five years prior. In those particular situations, those people focus on who is gone rather than who is there, including all the new people. In those cases, there is unspoken finger pointing at the minister, even though it's a natural cycle in church life. People come. People go. Focusing on those who have gone doesn't help the community move forward.
So--that's a LOT to lay on a lighthearted post here, I know.
Just explaining my post a bit and the stuff I brought to it.