Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:40 PM
Karch
Life of a missionary... or whatever
After a couple
of weeks to refocus, spend time with the family, and time
listening to God (not simply studying and producing); we’re back
and at it.
For those who wonder what I do with my time (all 3 of you), it always changes. But here are the past three days:
TUESDAY: Coming back always means (groan) many meetings
- 6:15am: Jacob picks me up… so we can save gas and use precious minutes getting caught up.
- 7-9am: Meeting with Jacob and Matthieu (sort of an intern) to pray,
encourage eachother, and talk through everything happening this fall.
- 9-11am: Meeting with Louis, Matthieu (different than the first),
and Jacob, to talk through issues: accountability, ministry, and family.
- 11am-1pm: Meeting with the oversight committee for the church at St
Jérôme (Louis, Terry, Jacob, myself). We worked through a couple of
explosions that occurred during my vacation… this took up most of our
time.
- 1pm-4pm: Regional Church planting strategy meeting. Evaluating
potential church planters. Planning a new church plant in St. Eustache,
as well as a couple of possible re-plants along the north shore of
Montreal.
- 4pm-5pm: Drive home… whew!
- 5pm-9pm: Spend time with the family
WEDNESDAY: A provincial day
- 7:30am-9:00am: drive to downtown Montreal (with Terry)
- 9:30am-3:30pm: Provincial church planting strategy meeting. We
planned a church planting boot camp (which I will, in part, be teaching
this October), as well as helped a church planter avoid a total
burn-out.
- 3:30-5:00pm: drive home… whew!
- 6:00-8:00pm: try to get reasonably caught up on essential e-mails and other paperwork (or… pixelwork?).
THURSDAY: Finally! Able to concentrate exlusively on the St Jérôme church!
- Felt rather sick this morning, which does not happen often, so went
back to bed and slept a little later, then shoved down some toast and
coffee. Not a fun morning. An incorruptible body in the future sounds
great.
- E-mails & phone calls (again and always)
- Sermon preparation: Will be walking through our vision for the church this Sunday: our 6 values.
- Reflection time on, and prayer for, the sermon (in the forest behind our place)
- Time with Martine (love that)
- Was able to catch the end of Mccain’s speach at the Rep. national
convention on TV tonight. McCain-Palin looks formidable all of a sudden.
- It’s midnight, I’m going to bed (hate going to bed this late).
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