This weekend might have easily been considered overwhelming. We had so much on the go. Friday night was our first small group meeting of the fall, which went smoothly, but it was interesting forging a new dynamic for the season with much more concrete goals and planning. We’re much more comfortable in doing what is [...]
I just realized it’s been almost a week between posts. Sorry about that. We’d been doing great, posting almost every weekday and the odd weekend. The last week of days has been super intensive. Cheryl had her first day of teaching at TWU, and she had to spend two more evenings doing some supervisory stuff [...]
This is going to sound completely self-centred, but given what I know about myself, and my own struggles with confidence, last night’s one-year anniversary at Community of Hope was incredibly special and meaningful to me for a number of reasons. Let me tell you about it. We had our Awana leadership walkthrough before the Vision [...]
Continue reading about A Vision Meeting and a Private Commissioning
Leading up to the big Awana meetin’ tonight, I was burning some cel phone minutes last night letting all my people know about the location and time of the meeting. I wound up talking to the father of one of my leaders. We both have been handed quite substantial responsibilites this fall, and are both [...]
I am starting to notice that there is a weight the deeper you get into pastoral ministry. As we proceed with team building and training with Awana, and getting our Community Group together this fall, we are having a lot of hard conversations with people about where they are at. Work challenges, relationship challenges, sin [...]
Some quick bullets for ya. Today’s our 10th Anniversary! Happy anniversary to my wife, who has staggered my imagination by her dedication to me and our life together for ten whole years. Thank you for everything you have done and ever will do – I love you. Good news on the graduating essay front. My [...]
Continue reading about #1 With a Bullet – Some Quick Updates
We’re back in Vancouver, and strangely enough the hot humid weather of central Florida seems to have followed us home. It wouldn’t let us go in fact, as our arrival in Toronto was swathed in the same kinds of massive downpours we saw several times in Florida (which caused our flight to be delayed by [...]
Continue reading about Tampa-Orlando '08 – Stay Tuned for the Review
On the weekend we had a meeting to shake down the way our small groups will look this fall. As our church grows I don’t know how long this way of deciding groups will last. With regards to my group, there are several things I feel we did wrong last year. And there are several [...]
On thing that taking on this Awana ministry has taught me is the use of a calendar. Many times before I thought I was busy enough for using a calendar, but it always tailed off. Now that I have to look months ahead, I have had to get much more dedicated to the use of [...]
Continue reading about Learning a New Skill: Time Management
Attendees: 10 including Cheryl and I. People who would have come but life intervened: 4. People who were invited and said on Sunday they’d come: 17. People we need at minimum to run the program this September: 19. I could be disappointed, but I’m really not. For some reason, God has given me a sense [...]
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