A very busy week since my last post. Here are some of the highlights:
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Tonight is the last of our Welcome Week activities. We have had at least one event (and often more than one) every day since 8/17. We're either scheduling too much or I'm getting too old to keep up with it all! I just need to remember that God won't call me to do more than I can do with calmness of spirit. As you read through the Gospels, you never see Jesus in a hurry and he always had time for people. And he had thousands of people making demands on his time. A friend recently pointed out that one of my heroes in the faith (Roy Weece) was the same way. He is always in demand, but never in a hurry and always with time for people.
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Welcome Week ends, but Follow-up Month begins. We have the names of over 300 new students who have indicated an interest in ConC. We want to get in touch with them! Unfortunately, the university has been less than helpful. For the past 23 years, they have helped us locate these students. So far this year, they have been unwilling to do that. They have also been slow in getting our posters up. We are still "working the channels" to get it done (and, after being here for 23 years, I have some channels), but we are also missing a key time for contacting students. Most students will set their habits in the first month of school - what their schedule will be like, what their circle of friends will be, where they will be involved. It is a key time. But God has it all under control. I'm learning to be a little less frustrated with those things that are out of my control.
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We moved Stacy into the dorm on 8/18. She hasn't been home since then, so I'm guessing she likes it!
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I'm working from Panera this morning - doing some sermon preparation and catching up on this. When I got in line for my bagel and coffee, I saw a "face from the past" right in front of me. Scott was at the very first meetings of ConC back in the fall of 1982. In fact, he was our very first president! At that time, he was a member of the Razorback football team. Now he is living and working in Springfield with a high school son of his own. I probably haven't seen Scott in almost 15 years. He asked if I was still schooling college guys in racquetball (of course, though I haven't played much lately). We caught up with one another and I filled him in on some of those he had been here with. It was a pleasant surprise!
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Tonight is the last of our Welcome Week activities. We have had at least one event (and often more than one) every day since 8/17. We're either scheduling too much or I'm getting too old to keep up with it all! I just need to remember that God won't call me to do more than I can do with calmness of spirit. As you read through the Gospels, you never see Jesus in a hurry and he always had time for people. And he had thousands of people making demands on his time. A friend recently pointed out that one of my heroes in the faith (Roy Weece) was the same way. He is always in demand, but never in a hurry and always with time for people.
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Welcome Week ends, but Follow-up Month begins. We have the names of over 300 new students who have indicated an interest in ConC. We want to get in touch with them! Unfortunately, the university has been less than helpful. For the past 23 years, they have helped us locate these students. So far this year, they have been unwilling to do that. They have also been slow in getting our posters up. We are still "working the channels" to get it done (and, after being here for 23 years, I have some channels), but we are also missing a key time for contacting students. Most students will set their habits in the first month of school - what their schedule will be like, what their circle of friends will be, where they will be involved. It is a key time. But God has it all under control. I'm learning to be a little less frustrated with those things that are out of my control.
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We moved Stacy into the dorm on 8/18. She hasn't been home since then, so I'm guessing she likes it!
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I'm working from Panera this morning - doing some sermon preparation and catching up on this. When I got in line for my bagel and coffee, I saw a "face from the past" right in front of me. Scott was at the very first meetings of ConC back in the fall of 1982. In fact, he was our very first president! At that time, he was a member of the Razorback football team. Now he is living and working in Springfield with a high school son of his own. I probably haven't seen Scott in almost 15 years. He asked if I was still schooling college guys in racquetball (of course, though I haven't played much lately). We caught up with one another and I filled him in on some of those he had been here with. It was a pleasant surprise!
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