September 16, 2006

  • Okay, it has been a while.  It was my intent to carry on the conversation from my last blog but it has been so long that the fire has gone out of that subject for now.  Maybe we can get it going sometime in the future as I'd like to have some opinions on a few things related to the church.

    Work is still extremely busy for me as I try and get the Fiscal Year 2006 jobs finished up by the end of September and then determine what I need to be doing for FY07 which starts in October.  This is always a period of chaos as the corps of engineers tries to determine what has been funded and what hasn't.  It sometimes changes daily, if not more often, as they try and allocate the funds congress has given us for our work.  It is never enough to do all the work that needs done and, I fear, we will pay for it down the road as we begin to see more and more mechanical failures at our dams.  Enough on that.

    The Saturday night service has stayed about the same.  We have a few holdovers and a few new people and they all seem to like the more "acoustic" sound of the worship over the loud bands of the past and I, as the worship leader, have been able to free myself from the constraints a band puts on me and feel more free to deviate from the script.  Again, where the church is going  is something I'd like to get some opinions on when I get a chance to really put some ideas into words.  I had been determined to change myself into the worship leader I thought I needed to be but one day decided to just go back to doing it the way I did it for years at other churches and that seemed to be a break through for me and for what I've been trying to do.  We actually had some spontaneous singing a couple of weeks ago.

    Personally, my wife and I have been completely redoing the bathroom.  During the 4th of July week, as I mentioned last time, we removed the old tub and shower surround and installed new ones.  We also took time off the week before labor day and installed new flooring and beadboard panels on the bottom of the walls.  Since our bathroom is pretty small, I decided against replacing the built-in cupboard, which we had torn out, and instead got three unfinished oak kitchen cabinets and stacked them to make the new cupboard.  My wife has been in the process of getting the walls primed and painted when she gets a few moments and I hope to get the new vanity in sometine in the next few days.  I have the Columbus Day week scheduled off and hope to get the trim, etc, done at that time. I'm not good at doing bits and pieces here and there when I get a moment or two.  I need to have lots of time when I get involved.

    Okay, what else?  I've been reading Revolution by George Barna and listening to the entire Passion catalog on my mp3 player as I travel to the job (170 miles round trip) every day.  I also listened to Kutless and now Pillar after the Passion playlist ran out.  It will probably be Sanctus Real or U2 when Pillar finishes on Monday

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    God IS Good!

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