Archive for July, 2008

Frustration

Posted on July 31st, 2008 by by jima

I found out yesterday that a guy WRC has supported for the last couple of years has thrown in the towel. The church goes on and the people still gather. But the pastor has moved on.
Why is this frustrating? Pastors move all the time. One we didn’t learn about it until it was over. Two […]

facebook

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by by jima

I did it. I hated to do it, but I joined facebook. Someone sent me a message that they had pictures of me tagged on facebook and being the vain person I am I wanted to see them. But I couldn’t because I wasn’t a member.
The interesting part was having to scroll down all those […]

Where to go from here?

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by by jima

How do you follow up a weekend like last weekend? Plan bigger and better? Go large? Invite the world into our world? Or do you allow God to give the increase and allow God to bring the partners?
It would be easy to start focusing on next year. But the community is here today. There are […]

Community Makeover!in

Posted on July 28th, 2008 by by jima

I am going to guess conservativley: 5000!
What a service! I moved to Paulding County in 1990. Started a small country church in 1991 that launched the first Sunday of 1992. As I researched I discovered that only 4 counties in Georgia had a lower percentage of people attending church than Paulding. I began to pray […]

community makeover

Posted on July 24th, 2008 by by jima

about 250 projects - over 3000 volunteers - worship 5000? (worship is Sunday evening so we don’t know the numbers)
This is what being the church is about. 8 churches in our area are partnering to conduct the first Community Makeover. African-American churches, white churches, charasmatic churches, baptist churches, methodist churches, modern churches, traditional churches. All part of […]

time flies when you’re having fun

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by by jima

Are we having fun yet?
This summer has passed way to quickly. The new year of CP classes is beginning in a couple of weeks and I’m behind. You’ve heard the old saying, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” Well that’s me the last couple of weeks.
Looks like a good bunch of guys attending […]

Home

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by by jima

I hope I haven’t lost my vast following.
It is good to be home. Baltimore is a great city! Ellis and Ginger and the team are working hard in a hard city to break into. But people recognized our blue shirts everywhere we went or they were asking questions.
A few years you couldn’t get […]

Headed to Baltimore

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by by jima

Leading a small team up to Baltimore (Gallery Church, Baltimore) for the week. Leaving Saturday. We’ll be doing some community service type work, prayer walking, and hanging out and meeting people. Matt Evans’ youth, Rockbridge Church in Dalton, went up earlier this summer and made over 2000 contacts in one week.
Ellis and Ginger are already […]

SPAM

Posted on July 9th, 2008 by by jima

I am probably going to show my ignorance but I don’t know what “spam” stands for. But here is what I have decided:
Stupid Pitiful Attempts (at) Marketing. Who falls for this stuff? It is such a nuisance. Some gets through the filter no matter what I do.
Just an encouragement. When you do marketing, however you […]

Empty Calls

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by by jima

This afternoon I’m in a meeting and the phone rings and it is someone important so I excuse myself and answer the call. Well I hear my friend in line at what sounded like a movie theater, amusement park, shopping center check out cashier, or something. I yelled out his name but I didn’t get a […]