Church Media Team: Football With Recursive Quarter Backs

The first quarterback is setting up passes to his receivers. His receivers catch QB1’s pass and set up to pass to their receivers team and the process continues as they do the same. Much like a media team at a church. The senior pastor or speaker director sets up the plays hopefully with the guidance and input of other team members. They make passes to their directors, music, audio, video, recording, drama, ect. who set up to make passes to their team. As in football things change. People’s ideas change and last minute audibles are called. For better or worse all teams must respond to the QB’s change. It always keeps the game interesting.

Life is like Dr. Mario

Friday evening we were playing Dr. Mario. I’m not very good and some times I get backed up so bad I’m only solving one problem at time. As things build up my objective gets focused on what to do with the next pill, then the stack’s up too high and I loose.

Some days life reminds me of Dr. Mario. I’ve spent entire days solving little problems while large projects wait. Then I’m playing catch up on large projects just to keeping them moving forward. The trick is to keep small projects and problems from overtaking important projects.

Phil Cooke suggested voice and e-mail be checked one hour before quitting time. His theory is this would prioritize small problems and fires keeping important projects moving. I’m going to try this. I have larger projects I want to keep moving or I’ll never get them done. I’ll keep you informed of how this works.

If you have any tips or tricks let me know.

Seven Tricker Treaters

Annually at the end of October we stock up on candy for the tricker treaters. We live just outside Berrien Springs village limits in a small subdivision. Hoping for lots of kids, we filled a bowl with different candies, turned the lights on and waited for the little ankle biters to haul it all away. As the first pair of siblings timidly knocked on the door Katy and I quickly retrieved the bowl of candy. They each took a piece, as we admired their costumes. (Side Note: Don’t take your parents tricker treating. Parents have a way of limiting the amount of candy you get.) The next was a group of four kids who retrieved their candy from Katy. Last, a boy dressed in a bathrobe with a belt and sword. I’m not sure what he was trying to be, but the effort was there.

A grand total of seven little goblins and creatures visited our house. We could have given each of them a bag of candy and still come away with extra. (Ok not really) It was an improvement on last year when we had two scary creatures, and their grandmothers. (It was raining/snowing)

What’s this world coming to? Where are the kids dressing up in bed sheets passing them off as ghost costumes with the sole intents of making a killing in the candy market? Has this really become a satanic holiday and people are not interested? Or has candy become so cheap even a child can afford to buy it instead of beg for it? Is Christmas pushing its way back to Halloween?

Let me know what you think.