it was a strange kind of week. so much was happening in short periods of time. it is hard to believe that last week happened and was only a few days. some photos if you like
- after mission experience we had a few days in the office which were.. interesting. i then drove through the late night to lake junaluska to meet with fellow design team members for "convo" the legislative body for youth ministries at the jurisdictional level.
- i started my first day at the lake meeting up with friends at the foundation for evangelism. they've been good to me over the years and i'm big fan of their efforts. they bought my breakfast, which was excellent, and we talked technology and the church. i'm excited to get involved in that conversation
- met up with our design team group. holston conference friend dan & i were put on the worship design group to round out the particulars to worship.
- we planned, processed, prayed, and sat in silence.. then took a break. in the end we had some worship experiences that we felt challenged the norm and gave some new looks for leadership. unfortunately we had all kinds of issues from speakers backing out, tech issues all over the place, & people who just didn't get where we were trying to go. in the end though, God was there, somewhere, even if it was hard for me to see... cause you know, God is suppose to make things go the way i intend for them to go.
- we alloted a bunch of ysf (youth service fund) monies to some great places. i've never really sat in on a process like that with that much money, so it was really neat to know we were making some significant changes spending money.
- hung out with jay and met up with some of the riffraff that was hanging out for soul feast. might have a new book project on youth ministry & social networks. who knows...
- got elected chair of the adult network for the southeast jurisdiction.. not sure what that means but hopefully we can accomplish one or two things in the next two years of my tenure.
- my youth camp to the lake. i ditched all things 'convo' to hang with them on saturday and we went to sliding rock. it was way cool & super cold. i then treated them to pizza, which was fun, till they started scaring the natives.
- i went to the 'emergent' service the duke div school interns were putting on sunday mornings. i had my worship snob mode in full effect, plus i knew that i wanted to get home and see wife & family, so when we started and they said we were going to watch the nooma on silence. i promptly got on the road.
- after arriving home and taking a short nap.. too short.. erin & i headed to smyrna to catch up with little bro and family for madalyn's baby dedication. the church they have settled into doesn't do infant baptism. though my mom called it a baptism. they do dedications.. this is also where i took on role as godfather.
- after the dedication we went to my mother-in-laws house to participate in an odd anniversary. it was her bff's first anniversary of her liver transplant. she had deteriorating health from obtaining hepatitis c back during a child birth blood transfusion. it finally had her down to some poor health and probable death. but now she's back. so we sang happy b'day liver.. talked about the liver's sex change and some other oddities. we are happy for mom's bff, she's a saint and is more than deserving of feeling better after all these years.
quite a week
