So instead of our regular meeting agenda, we had just one item: listening prayer.

But when it came time to consider such a step, a staff member whose name did not appear on the meeting agenda unexpectedly weighed in.

A typical meeting agenda will include all the normal activity you would expect in an organization with elected officials.

Yet each frame was crammed with managers falling over each other, with clipboards, pagers, consultancy reports and meeting agendas.