Sunday Mind Dump

Just thought I'd take a few minutes and dump about a few things:

• Pray for your pastor. Seriously, they need it. I have several guys I have been praying for lately. They have a harder job than you will ever know. The pressures of leading a church can be tremendous.
• April and I have been sick for a few days. Trying to figure out if it's something we ate or just a virus.
• Enjoying my summer down time, although it will get busier as I am starting 2 classes next week.
• Enjoying serving at 242 Church. It's a haul on Sunday mornings but we're enjoying it.
• Enjoying playing music and leading worship again. Didn't know how long we'd be out of it in terms of not leading worship. Thankful for the chance to do it again.
• Working on some ideas about how to truly do blended worship for a pretty conservative community of believers. It's not as easy as one would think, no matter what you do some one isn't going to like it.
• Next week is Jake's first week drumming at the new church. We'll see how that goes. Up till now it's been just an acoustic guitar and a keyboard.
• I am out!
  

Mind Dumps

I know I haven't been as regular with mind dumps as in the past. I'm working on it...so here we go:

• Things are going well at 242 Church. It is a struggle for April and I in terms of style as we are much more aggressive in worship and the people at 242 are a little more traditional. We are trying to approach the ministry with a missionary mindset and bring worship of God to them in a way that works for them, while still stretching them a little every week. So far so good....If they put up chicken wire, that'll be a sign we have pushed to far :)
• Did some remodeling around the house. That was fun! I did better than I would have thought and will eventually do more!
• I am taking 4 classes this summer. That's keeping me busy!
• Loving my new guitar. I really like the Taylor feel and sound. It's killing my fingers getting them back into acoustic guitar shape after not playing for so long.
• Looking forward to a weeks vacation in August. We rented a nice house in Fl with a swimming pool. The 4 of us are going to be relaxing big time.
  
• I think I am going to take a few days next week and just do nothing. I need a few days of quiet time....just listening to God and not speaking much. We all need times of quiet. God speaks with a still small voice. It's hard to hear him over all the noise in our lives.