I’ve got to get some focus. I’ve been letting myself get distracted from the tasks at hand and just finding busyness as I work alone now as the only full time staff at our church. Since starting at CCDS I’m seeing there are a lot of areas that need work but are they all worth keeping alive or should we stop doing it and find something new that could be more effective? Should we simplify what we do? Are we help students or for that matter church members produce meaningful fruit? Is there any life transformation going on in their lives on account of what we are doing? I’ve been looking at some new way that we can connect with and have conversations with students that I’ve never done before. I saw a student ministry staff on their website offer a specific time each week that was virtual office hours. That could be IM, MyspaceIM, text messaging or something of the likes. I’m working to get the paperwork filled out so I can get onto the High School and Middle School campus’ in the area and also looking for where they hang out in DeLand.

I took some of my youth sponsors to the Youth Pastor’s Summit the end of last week and heard some really great speakers and had a fun time hanging out and talking with them. I’m planning on posting some of the notes I took while there later this week. On Thursday we heard James Ryle, Greg Stier, Georga Barna and then on Friday I got to hear Thom Rainer. So I’ll be posting some notes and thoughts on those later after I spend some more time working my way through it all.

My youth sponsors team is getting together tomorrow night to talk through what we heard and some questions I want us to process as a team. We have a really out going, not afraid to talk bunch so I’m sure I’ll hear a bunch I want to hear and hopefully some stuff I don’t.

I was reading around the blogoshpere tonight and found that Mark Gibson, the lead singer for Sundry back in the day, is now the worship guy at Stonepoint Christian Church in Newnan, GA. I couldn’t believe what I was reading when their lead guy Scott was referring to their new worship leader (I was reading an older post) and he referred to a band the guy was in and I click on the story and sure enough it was Mark, how crazy is that. It is at least to me.

[tags]George Barna, Thom Rainer, Text Messaging, DeLand[/tags]

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