Looking back at my calendar in the days I was on district and sectional staff, my calendar was a mess. Thing is there were times the staff needed to meet more often, yet for a short period of time and without all that travel.
Why then do staff have to travel up to Allentown (a good 1+ hr for me), Harrisburg (1.5-2 hours), Scranton (2+ hrs), or Springfield (20 hours by car or a pricey airfare)? Why not have a conference call and web conference option for a lot of these meetings? Why not cut out parts of the meeting which are planning sessions during a conference call or web conference?
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This post sharing a reminder to my future self on this topic.
There are billions of people on Earth. Being human, like we all are, we all have needs, as well as desires and wants. I think we all are seeking something at some point.
One thing I think people seek is for someone to speak something real into their life. Aside from the Jesus talk, they are seeking someone to speak that solid thing they need to hear in their life in a genuine and intentional way.
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This is no rehashing of my Gold Medal essay, rather a white board of a post breaking down the big parts of Royal Rangers back when I was a boy and teen in this ministry program.
The big parts:
(no particular order)
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You can…
- Have all the program/ministry resources
- Have a complete staff
- Have the right curriculum
- Have a good schedule in place
- Have a great training backbone
- Have awesome speaker/communicators in place
- Have your administration and organization down
- Have all the planning, organization, planning meetings, etc in place
- Have documented vision, mission statements, goals, etc.
- [add other stuff you can have to this list]
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disclaimer: Forgive me again if I’m not in the loop with the Marsh era changes to Royal Rangers, since its been closing into 2 years that I’ve been on my sabbatical from that ministry program.
thought #1: geography of training camps
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If it is not God, then how?
I’m going to try to spare a devotional talk or theological discussion of any sort and just type. (Good luck with that!)
This whole topic is rarely far from my thoughts. Today it was sparked when I got lesson plans for this week’s kid’s church, where we’re talking about hearing from God. (I’m glad we’re covering this crucial topic with the kids.)
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Sometime in 2009 I stumbled upon a creative YouTube video called “Ignatius the Ultimate Youth Pastor“. This video is well worth 10 minutes of your time.
“Bow you eyes, close your heads.“ LOL!!! Sorry, I can’t stop laughing!
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Since things change over time, this is one of those test you re-take every couple years just to get a general idea where you stand.
So discernment, wisdom, speaking in tongues, administration, tongues interpretation, and faith are all 20+ point scores. Ironically half of these top gifts have been inactive or supressed as of late, which factor into my overall life frustrations. Funny thing is I thought helps, leadership, knowledge, and prophecy would have slightly higher scores than they did.
I’ll have to dig up past results to do a full analysis and comparison. One thing I know increased big time in recent years is the gift of “faith”.
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One thing I love about WordPress is that you can draft a post and work on it over time before publishing it. (Would be nice if I used that for better proof reading, since I’m lacking in that area.) Sometime in January I got inspired to write a post on the topic of the title of the post. Lots to cover and hard to make this a bit sized post full of flavor, but I’ll try.
On the topic of “God’s Will”, the theological argument of “Calvinism vs. Arminianism” is included. Many Calvinists will be glad to tell people about the misconceptions of Calvinism and of course will point out the flaws of Arminianism.
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