Woolsey Life

A friend of mind from days gone by sent us a book as a congratulations for our first child.  It is full of nice sentiments & Catholic prayers.  The great insight from this book is that it leaves many pages blank save some instructions.  The author suggests writing some stuff down, things that will never stick in our memories.  Since I have this blog I thought that I would use this for some of the more observational thoughts.  From time to time I will probably use the ‘Keep this post private’ button when its too personal, but I kind of like the idea of writing here.  Keep in mind, often times I won’t really be talking to you (the reader) but myself and perhaps my child. I have always liked the idea of keeping a video journal or something during the pregnancy for the sake of the child after he/she is grown up, I guess this is how it will start.

By the way, this post is not one of those posts.

No, its not exactly what you think.  Christy has been suffering from a little nausea in the evenings mostly centered around bed time.  Her mornings and days are actually pretty good.  Yesterday she had the worst of it and I thought that maybe this wonderful blessing of a light sickness wasn’t going to last.  She didn’t sleep well last night and woke up still sick.  I thought, WOW, this is bad until I rolled over and realized that I had my own very significant case of morning sickness.  She told me that perhaps I was just being sympathetically nauseous until my body demonstrated in all its wonders that it wasn’t sympathy.  She managed to head off to work today because it was going to be a light day.  I am still trying to find the strength to stand and have already started calling in people to do my job on Sunday.  Pray for us :-X

I am finding that lately blogging is not taking the priority that I would like it to. For those of you following and waiting for the next installment of Church Admin I am still brewing the next topic which is Team Communication. I have been dragging my feet to write this one because over the last month or so God has been showing me that we are not doing it as well as we could. In fact, its still a major stumbling block for us as I am sure it is for any decentralized church with no office. Having said that, its only fair to mention that I tend to feel spun out when things start getting ugly and I haven’t felt like I have all the tires on the road for a while. But rest assured, as we have addressed some of our team communication issues we have also discovered some good solutions that I will share here.

Having said its time to share: We just had a short staff retreat to San Elijo State Beach in San Diego Sun-Tuesday. It was fun to hang out with the guys and ride our bikes all around and eat out of the deli at the Seaside Market in Cardiff. We stopped in Escondido on the way down to grab the RV. I really love that thing, its as old as me and everything still works thanks to the attention and care my dad tends to give every vehicle he owns. We had a couple of great discussions about Vince’s passion - communication; or as I call it out-of-house communication. I will share some of the ideas as part of the Church Admin series.

Where is your favorite place to camp in a tent or in an RV? Growing up I always went with my family to camp outside of Southern California. The harder it is to get where you are going the more secluded it’s going to be and we liked it like that.  I would love to check out some new places and see what Southern California camping has to offer.

So I haven’t forgotten about my blog, I have just had so many other things I have given my attention to lately that this blog has been on the back burner. I haven’t forgotten about my Church Admin series for those of you that are still waiting for me to wrap it up, its just been hard to find the time to write it up lately.

So, for this morning - I am sitting at Starbucks in Kearny Mesa righ now because Christy had a 4 hour class she had to teach today and she missed her shuttle. I hate it when she has to drive all the way to work rather than take the shuttle so I offered to drive her down. She will be done at noon and wifi is easy to come by when you have a Tmobile hotspot option on your mobile account. I figure I can do anything here that I can do at home (almost) and Christy doesn’t have to make the drive alone.

I have learned one lesson so far this morning…Starbucks should stick to gourmet coffee and McDonalds should stick to breakfast. Don’t be fooled by the samples that Starbucks was giving out when they started doing breakfast sandwiches. Those were an exageration of the real thing. Its simple, just don’t do it.

Team communication is the single most important component to church administration. Without it we can go no where. There are a lot of dimensions to team communication. There is the required communication between pastors, ministry leaders, oversight, your congregation and your community.  Each dimension of communication has its own set of tools. I will outline for you the biggest components of communication for Impact Church:

1. Church Management System (CMS)
2. Front End Website
3. Ministry Meetings
4. SMS
5. Print

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