Journal: Friday, 8/22/08 It has been a long, exhausting summer, but I have just received my certificate for a unit of CPE. CPE has been challenging. I did CPE because my conference requires it. I didn’t see exactly why I needed to go through a program that would take 12 weeks to teach me how to [...]
Celebrating a Scholarship
Thursday, August 21, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Journal: Tuesday, 8/19/08 Tonight I went to a banquet that was a celebration of the Karl Stegall Seminary Foundation. I receive scholarship aid from this group every quarter. It started out with Dr. Stegall asking members of his church to sponsor a seminary student. Sponsors would pledge to support that seminary student with a monthly [...]
On Starting Kindergarten
Monday, August 18, 2008 by · 2 Comments
Journal: Monday, 8/18/08 Last week was another busy week that seemed to fly by. My son, D3, had his first whole week of kindergarten. Like so many things in life, school is something that you cannot truly understand until you get to do it. He was in preschool, so he was as prepared as he could [...]
Advice from a Leading Church Consultant
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 by · 1 Comment
Bill Easum, of Easum, Bandy, and Associates, has joined the blogging world! Easum is a heavy hitter in the world of church consulting. His coaching has helped many churches and pastors rethink how they do ministry. I have been lucky enough to attend an Easum/Bandy event, and I have benefited from several of their publications. [...]
Journal: Monday, 8/11/08
Monday, August 11, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
On Cindy’s Birthday: Saturday was my wife’s birthday. My parents came into town, and they watched the kids so that Cindy and I could go to lunch and a movie. Then we all met for dinner at one of her favorite restaurants. It was very nice. I made her a blog and we are trying [...]
