Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Dinner with a Pastor

I had dinner with our soon to be new pastor and his wife the other day.

It was good. Dinner and the converstation. Perhaps we will enjoy working together too!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

To be slandered...

The new pastor of our congregation came to visit the church last weekend and tonight I heard through the grapevine that someone went up to him and told him that I was trouble and that someone should do something about me. He had to ask someone if there was a problem with me and my position at the church.

I'm upset that someone lied about me. I'm upset that someone tried to ruin my reputation with him. I'm upset that he even had to think for a second about having problems working with me.

I know I'm a bit of a handful. I know I have opinions about how things should happen sometimes...but I'm also willing to acknowledge my faults and the places where I've messed up. The combination of these things usually make me fairly easy to get along with but for some reason there is someone in my congregation who seems determined to spread false reports about me to my new colleague.

Luckily there was someone at my church who stuck for me and told the new pastor that I am a hard worker and am doing my best as a DCO. I'm grateful that someone spoke up on my behalf. It's nice to have people on your side.

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Update...

I haven't really posted much in the last month and for that I apologize. I figured I'd give you just a small update. I recently received a call to a church right outside of Chicago. The call process always stresses me out a bit...mostly because it means I have to make a decision and it sort of makes me feel like I'm going to disappoint someone, and that's always hard for me. I visited the church and knew that it wasn't the next place I would be serving God. The people were nice, and the idea of being in Chicago was great...but it just wasn't right. So I declined the call and am still in Kimberling City. There's a lot of excitement here right now...we've just recently met the man who is going to be our next pastor after the current one retires. So a time of transition is coming, which I know means patience will be required. If you know me, you know this won't be easy...but it will be exciting.

Also...since our trip to Haiti has officially been postponed to November, Linds and I have decided we couldn't wait that long and are taking a vacation to Haiti in June. We're trying to decide where we're going to serve while we're there and looking for some opportunities to open up. I'm so excited to be going back to Haiti...I really do miss it when I'm gone. I've been taking Creole lessons and have the vocabulary of a 5 year old! I'm not great, but at least I have some of the tools to communicate while I'm there. Someday I'll be fluent...I won't give up.

Last night I did something I haven't done in a while. I got home late from youth group. After youth group ended I spent the next hour and half driving kids home. I only put 70 miles on my car this wednesday...so it's not too bad considering some weeks I drive 120 miles to pick up kids and bring them home...but I want them here so you do what you have to do to get them here. Anyway...I digress. Last night I got home and ran. not far, and not long but I ran. When I was done I turned on the TV. I hardly ever watch TV anymore...I wonder why I even pay for cable. But I watched a movie that was on. This movie started at 10pm. I had read the book that the movie was adapted from and I had seen the movie but for some reason I couldn't remember what happened so I stayed up and watched the whole thing...it didn't end until 1...meaning that I watched 3 straight hours of TV...unreal.

that's about all for now folks...I'll try to be better about posting, and I'll try to be better about finding things that are interesting to write about.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Holy Cow...