Archive | July, 2008
maybe someday I’ll outgrow this…

maybe someday I’ll outgrow this…

Over the past few years, one of my treats to myself has been ordering the MLB Extra Innings package so I can watch the Red Sox.  However, this summer I decided, there is simply too much going on between family & church stuff, so I decided to take a year off.  In fact I haven’t [...]

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the shortest distance between two points…

We caused a bit of confusion on Sunday…the bulletin (which was printed & prepared on Thursday) said we were moving to the mall for 3 months starting in mid-August. in fact the latest blog entry says the same thing.
However, we got a call on Friday afternoon (while I was in NYC) saying that we would [...]

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All over the mall

On August 24, we’ll start holding our Sunday services in the old movie theater at the mall. Around the same time, you might want to keep you eyes peeled while you are walking through the mall. You might notice one of the outreach efforts from the fall kickoff.

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Some building stuff…

Last Sunday we mentioned that we we planning on going to the planning board on July 29th to get the go ahead to start working on the new place…however, as we talked on Sunday we realized that the best thing to do would be to wait two weeks, get all of our stuff together, and [...]

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looking for a good book?

looking for a good book?

One of my goals for 2008 was to read more.  I normally read 20 to 30 books each year & this year I decided to shoot for one a week.  And as of July 20th, I am about one third of the way through my 31st book, Historic Leadership by Chris Lowney.  Lowney was a [...]

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way over my head

As the Ithaca Vineyard has grown over the past 10 years, we have spent a lot of time looking for space.  Except for a 24 month period from ‘99 to ‘01, we have spent the majority of that time being portable.
Although we had looked for “non-portable” space in the past, this is the first time [...]

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back…sort of

Originally, I was supposed to take a week vacation at the start of July…then go to the Vineyard’s regional conference in PA.  (Done…& the conference was great…we had 22 people from Ithaca in attendance…Rich Nathan is probably my favorite speaker in the Vineyard, & Phil Strout’s talk was awesome.)
Then, we were going to take to [...]

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First-time Guest

So one of my goals for vacation this year was to try & experience what it’s like to be a first time guest at a church.  Not just someone looking for one church among many, but Liz & I wanted to see what I felt like to walk into a church for the first time [...]

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follow-up to Sunday

On Sunday I mentioned some research on marriage/divorce & contempt.  Here’s the link if you’d like to research this more.  interesting….
NPR Interview

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vacation

Okay, my blogging history is not all that good.  this is my third time starting…but hopefully we’ll get things kicked in to gear this time around…
However, I am going to be a way a bit over the next few weeks…vacation this week!  Vineyard’s Eastern region conference next week and then one more week vacation.
I will [...]

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