Creativity on a Thursday Morning

Old song, New way... Enjoy

Ideas and Thoughts

So in the positions that I serve I have a lot of ideas and thoughts float my way. Some of them are on purpose and others just kind of pop up in one way or another. I can have a hard time figuring out which are things worth pusuing and which are ones that I should just leave alone. Ideas don't always make me a popular guy. When I took the position of Communications Director I had to make several desicions that didn't make some people happy. We (as a church) had very poor communications. It was a huge, convoluted mess and we needed to get it worked out. What I had to decide was how. We started by chopping away things until we were opperating with the absolute minimum. This made some upset because we didn't (and still don't) have a regular newsletter. Unfortunatly there aren't many ways for you to see what goes into putting something like that together. I'm hoping that this blog can provide some insight.

I need to ask you to trust us a little bit more. We have several ideas that we are pursuing to continue to help the communications get better around here. You may have noticed that the weekly bulletin is mostly for people who are new. We did that on purpose! We want you who are regulars and members to be able to get info too, but we hope that you will use the website, the blogs, and the fastblast in order to get it. We are currently working on a monthly publication that in conjunction with the blogs will help to replace the newsletter.

I would love it if you have thoughts, ideas, suggestions, likes, dislikes that you would let me know. You can email me (aaron@fbcpoky.com) or post it here in the comments. Without your input and observations we can't really tell if something is working or not. I am here to serve Jesus and you, so please let me know how we can do this better!

Dealing with Technology

One of the things that I get to do in my job is help other churches with their technology problems. I found this little gem on YouTube. Thought you guys might like it. I think that we, as churches, sometimes treat technology like this. "various overkill to ensure eventual deafness speakers."

Sunday Rewind

• I think that God is preparing us for something really big
• The message was like a prelude, it just kind of gets us warmed up, now we're ready for the main theme
• God showed me that in some ways we don't really value people who don't know him yet
• We have some things to work on but the good news is that they can get better
• Chris made a choice experiment for dinner... zucchini parmesan!
• I started a new book by Erwin McManus, I'll keep you updated

Shot of Creativity on Tuesday afternoon

Sunday Rewind

Here it is...

• Turns out that the message was a hard one to give
  
• I was really nervous about how people would respond
  
• One of the things God told me before I got up was that I shouldn't expect what I want to happen, I should look for what He wants to happen
  
• I really believe that if we as a church would start abiding in Jesus that we would have to so creative to give away all of the fruit he would grow in in us
  
• I hope that you heard the point about our situation not being a money problem
  
• Our heart issues are always the things that trip us up
  
• God is up to something around here
  
• I don't want to miss it and I don't want any of you to miss it either