Last Day of Vacation!

Sitting in my living room enjoying my last day of vacation! Our church as the most incredible policy...our offices are closed on Mondays, so when a holiday falls on a Monday we get the next day off as well! It is so awesome!

This vacation has been awesome and relaxing! I did very little if any work over the past 10 days, but that means that I have alot to do when I get back in the office tomorrow! Steve Ommert is speaking in Axiom so that is at least one thing off my plate!

I have a lot to do to prepare for Saturday! Our last Angelfood distribution is this Saturday before our switch to Great Food for All, so many things left to do in preparation but I am confident that all will get done! We also have Earthbeat on Saturday and we are kind of behind the 8 ball with this event...alot to do and not alot of time, but I really think all will go well...plus there is like 50% of rain that day so we may have to postpone to our June weather date.

Then next week I have to start our new series in Axiom as well as prepare for our grad service on June 8th, in which I am speaking...I think!

Anyway...back to enjoying my dayoff!

No ODC for me...

Well as I stated on my last entry we had a gentleman pass away that has been apart of our church for over 20 years. He was only 64. The calling hours are tonight from 5-8 and then the funeral is tomorrow morning at 11AM. Due to the funeral our entire pastoral staff had to cancel our trip to the Ohio District Council. The one of the reasons that stinks is because this year we are electing a new District Superintendent, so we will be unable to vote. Thank goodness for great friends that are going to keep me in the loop during the election!

I had a very busy weekend and then played in the ODC golf tournament today...I will try and post about those later!

Sudden Death

This afternoon as I am getting ready to shoot a video for Sunday our Church Secretary comes in the room and tells Meg and I that Mike Thomas (who attends our church), has collapsed at Wal-Mart and is not responding..."it's not looking good" she said.

Well an hour later or so we did get word that Mike passed away.  It was so sudden, so unexpected, Mike was 65; not real old, but not young either.  I mean this guy seemed to be in good health!  For him to just collapse and die is just hard to believe.  Meg and I were talking at dinner about how these kind of deaths are always are to accept or understand.  They come from no where...one minute they are here and the next they are gone!

Needless to say, Mike truly loved God and so there is no doubt where he is spending eternity!  Mike was a very fun joking guy, he was a guy who would always say something sarcastic/funny when you saw him and you couldn't help but laugh.  He will truly be missed around FMC!

Great Church!

I have been at Faith Memorial for almost 3 years and it never ceases to amaze me how awesome this church is! One of our Rockford Master's Commission students was sent home for a couple of weeks to raise the rest of her tuition money. Between her tuition and missions trip she needed $1400, it seemed like alot, but it is pocket change to the God we serve!

This young lady worked a couple of days with a lady in the church, spoke to Axiom on Wednesday night and hung out at the office a little bit this past week. Our Pastor shared with our church family this morning the need that she had, and following the service person after person came up to her and handed her money. When it was all said and done she walked away with a total of $2200 total, that includes the money from the 2 days she worked and the honorarium that Axiom gave her for speaking. It is INCREDIBLE!

So this young lady is back on a bus to Rockford, IL tomorrow at 2PM! It is so cool to see how God provides! A week and half ago her voice was filled with discouragement as I talked with her on the phone. And to see how God has provided for her need has been awesome! I can't wait to share this with our Axioim students on Wednesday night! They played a part in investing in this young ladies life and becuase of that God is going to poor out blessings on them!

GOD ROCKS! (and so does Faith Memorial!!!)

Easter is over...

That past week has been pretty crazy. I have been spending a lot of time getting prepared for our Easter Production. I was in charge of shooting the video and I also helped with some of the sound/tech stuff. With a rehearsal last Tuesday a dress rehearsal on Thursday and then the actual productions on Friday and Sunday.

Things went well over all, know I just have to spend time at the computer editing. I am glad that it is soon to be all over because I can finally focus on the things that I want/need to focus on...once I catch my breathe a little I will try to fill you in on some of the things that have been happening and some of the things that I are going on in my crazy head...

Later!

BeMinistry.Com Commercial #2

Just finished editing installment #2 of our beministry.com commericals...check it out and let me know what you think!

BeMinistry.Com

I love working with a team! This past week in our staff meeting Sam our music pastor came up with an idea to do a spoof of the eharmony.com commercials as a promo for our upcoming ministry fair on March 9th. He came up with the idea, Pastor Tom (our associate) helped me recruit the talent, prepare some lines and cue cards, as well as purchase the domain name (beministry.com) and set up the website and I shot and edited the video.

It really came together well! This is the first of 3 or 4 videos, so I will try and put all of them on my blog... I hope they look okay and are not to pixelated. I want them to look clear, but not take forever to load...enjoy!

I love my church!!

I must admit I have been a total bum this week!  My church (Faith Memorial Church in Sandusky, Ohio) closes our offices from Christmas to New Years.  I don't really know why other than it has something to do with what the factories do here in town and they did the same with the church offices.  It is such an awesome week!  I get 3 weeks vacation plus this week.  It is great time to spend with my family... we can get things done around the house, go shopping and simply recoup from the Christmas madness.  I will say after  a few days I am already getting anxious to do something... I still have another week until I am back in the office (other than sunday).  I am so tempted to work on church stuff, but am trying to make myself do other things that need to be done.

Well I hope you all enjoy your last week of 2007!  Have a great week!

Gatlinburg...

This week we are in Gatlinbug, TN for our staff retreat. So far it has been pretty fun, we meet as a staff in the morning and discuss plans & direction for 2008 and then spend the rest of the day hanging out and having fun!

The scenery down here is incredible! As I type this on the back porch I look out over the mountains and the trees are beautiful! Full of color! There is something about living by the mountains that is so appealing!

Church Picnic

Well today was a cool day...spoke at the shoreline service this morning, it went really well. I got to share with them about Angelfood. Made some really cool connections with people. One of the great things about Angelfood is getting to help people save money, especially senior citizens. Knowing that most are on a fixed income and struggle financially, Angelfood is a great way to assist them!

Later in the day following our morning service, we had our annual church picnic. It was a great time! Some played volleyball, horsehoes, and cornhole. We also had some inflatable and water games for the kids...Kinsey loved going down the water slide!!

Overall a fun day had by all! Except for Steve O. during one of the volleyball games he rolled his ankle. They thought he broke it, so they took him to the hospital...report back was inconclusive, so he will be going to specialists this week to get the final verdict! He is in ALOT of pain, so be praying for him!