keeping up

My ordination process has certainly consumed a lot of my time and energy lately but with a lot of that out of the way, I don't feel much less swamped. There are lots of really big things going on at Grace. Sort of topping the fight for my attention is the upcoming move of the 9:45 service into the gym. The is a really large and complicated project and we are all lucky that there is a great team working on it. This week, the rest of the materials are being shipped. This weekend, we hope that the painting will begin. Over the next couple of weeks, you will really start to see the room transformed. Starting this Sunday, we will be recruiting setup and teardown teams.

While that is the biggest project on my plate right now, it certainly isn't the only one. We have a dynamite Adult Council and they are planning discipleship opportunities for the whole year. It all starts with Methodism 101 next week. Already on the calendar are Bible 101, Prayer 101 and Worship 101. There are even more in the works.

There are also two new small groups forming right now and another round of Genesis, our small group ministry incubator. (That should be the subject of a whole other post.)

We are already running full steam and it is only January. I haven't even yet had first of the year meetings with Missions, Congregational Care or Welcoming and I new their leaders have big things planned for 2008.

There are so many ways to be involved in all of this. If you want to get more involved and don't know how, drop me an email and I will give you some ideas.

peace,

will