One of the things I love about being in Williamsburg is that I never know who will appear in worship on any given Sunday. On many Sundays, vacationing pastors are in the congregation. I have found myself preaching to vacationing bishops on a couple of occasions. The President of the Alban Institute (an institute which studies the characteristics of effective congregations) would show up in the congregation when his son was a student at William and Mary. The same with a Reformation history scholar, whose daughter was at the College. Yesterday the pre-eminent American Lutheran scholar of worship was part of the 8:30 congregation! (Yesterday was the Youth Sunday service. I told Robin Hudson after the service that Gordon Lathrop had been in the congregation. She said, "I'm glad you waited until after the service to tell me that!")