1) This week has been a mixed bag of tricks.2) I started the week off feeling very overwhelmed because of some of the things that were going on at home. It took me a few days to come out of my funk.
3) My conclusion was that sometime we get busy doing "stuff" and ignore the opportunity to just "rest". I know this from experience and now I'm kicking myself for not taking advantage of the quiet time this week and focusing my attention on God and what he may be trying to tell me.
4) By Thursday I had been in the house the entire week and the walls were starting to close in. A really good friend came to my rescue and I spent the evening with her unloading some burdens, laughing over some old times and planning for some future goals. It was just what the doctor ordered.
5) After some reflection I realized that part of my problem was that I pour so much of myself into ministry that sometime I forget to balance that out with some down time. I'm great at giving this advice to others. How many times have I said it (even here on my blog) how important it is to not get lost in ministry at the expense of time with your family and friends?
6) Friday evening we had some major storms roll into our area. That didn't stop the women at New Life Providence from having their summer fling. I took several of the women from our Women's Ministry team along for a bit of fun. We watched a really good movie and had some really great food. The best part was just getting out of the house for some fellowship and fun. I even left my camera at home so that I wouldn't be tempted to "observe" the event rather then participate.
7) Saturday morning Nicki and I went to have our hair "did". If you follow me on twitter you probably got the footnotes from a message I was listening to on my ipod by Pastor Jeff Kapusta of Lifepoint Church. The message was from a Staff Meeting at C3 Church in North Carolina where Matt Fry is the pastor.
8) Speaking of twitter.....WABC now has a facebook and twitter page. You should have heard me trying to explain facebook to my uncle (who is in his 70's). I didn't even try to explain twitter. LOL
9) Today was Men's Day at WABC. The speaker was a friend of the family. He had a great message for the men (although their were several amens from the women). My favorite part of the service was watching everyone praising and worshiping God. I especially enjoyed seeing the young men of WABC participating side by side with some of our seasoned leaders.
10) My youngest daughter Nicki has been helping out with the media ministry at WABC. Looking at the picture of her we may need to work on her facial expressions though.
11) Today I not only took photographs of the service I was doing the video taping of the message for the day. This is one job I am looking forward to turning over to someone else.
12) There is not much going on this week unless you count the movie premier (which is a big deal in this house) for The Bill Collector. It will be interesting to see how many of our family and friends show up for the viewing this weekend.
Oops.....I forgot to give a shout out to some friends in Corpus Christi Texas who celebrated their church 1st Anniversary today. Congratulations Pastor Jason and Robbie Curlee and Bay Area Fellowship!
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