"projects all around!"
Monday, March 10, 2008 Filed in: daily photos
| my life
here are pictures of
two projects that began today....
the first is one that Stacy and i began today that will, hopefully, last a long time. we joined the Weight Watchers Points Program. (i'm gonna get thin again!!!) it's actually pretty cool cuz you can eat whatever you want, but just in limited amounts. it really just makes you think about your food choices and "budget" them just like you would with money. i'll be weighing in every Monday. i started off today at 223 lbs. (i'm sad to say). but i'm headed toward my goal of 185 lbs!
the second project was not one of mine, although i assigned it. at ROCKHARBOR, we're doing Family Ministries in a very non-traditional way, but in a way that makes a whole lot more sense when you look at it. the basic idea is that parents should be the primary nurturers of their children's faith... not us. we play a supportive role. the goal, overall, is to not "create" good, Christian kids. that's never successful. the goal is for parents to be creating environments in which the Holy Spirit can work and grow within their kids as He chooses.
anyway, once people get passed their preconceived notions of "how church should be," it's clear that this makes way more sense. but, sometimes it's difficult to communicate this to people and get them past those preconceived notions and previous paradigms. the project i gave our team was to come up with some creative ways to approach that. tomorrow is the due date and today i got to see some of the groups in our team working on their projects. it was pretty cool.
the first is one that Stacy and i began today that will, hopefully, last a long time. we joined the Weight Watchers Points Program. (i'm gonna get thin again!!!) it's actually pretty cool cuz you can eat whatever you want, but just in limited amounts. it really just makes you think about your food choices and "budget" them just like you would with money. i'll be weighing in every Monday. i started off today at 223 lbs. (i'm sad to say). but i'm headed toward my goal of 185 lbs!
the second project was not one of mine, although i assigned it. at ROCKHARBOR, we're doing Family Ministries in a very non-traditional way, but in a way that makes a whole lot more sense when you look at it. the basic idea is that parents should be the primary nurturers of their children's faith... not us. we play a supportive role. the goal, overall, is to not "create" good, Christian kids. that's never successful. the goal is for parents to be creating environments in which the Holy Spirit can work and grow within their kids as He chooses.
anyway, once people get passed their preconceived notions of "how church should be," it's clear that this makes way more sense. but, sometimes it's difficult to communicate this to people and get them past those preconceived notions and previous paradigms. the project i gave our team was to come up with some creative ways to approach that. tomorrow is the due date and today i got to see some of the groups in our team working on their projects. it was pretty cool.