Author: Robert

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church work day

one of the things i like the most about tapestry not having a building (besides the obvious one of it constantly reinforcing to everyone that the church is not a building) is the fact that it redefines what some churches call “church work days.”

a lot of churches have these. it’s a day were all the church members are asked to come and work on the church building – cleaning it, improving it, maintaining it, etc. i don’t really have anything against them except for the fact that it is yet another day where resources (time, energy, money) are focus on a building instead of on people. it’s easy not to do this when you don’t have a church building to work on 🙂

instead, when we have a “church work day” it involves helping one of the threads. saturday, august 22nd is such a day. jan r. is moving into her new home. starting at 10 am some of us are going to help her move. i personally hate moving myself but for some strange reason i love moving other people – yes, i know that makes no sense.

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the video message from sunday


since some of us are in nicaragua this week i thought i would try making a video for the message at tapestry this past sunday. above is the video. i’ll probably change a lot next time but this was at least a starting point.

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the week in tweets – 2009-08-08

  • @Joshross – i'm assuming he was probably a very cool pastor 😉 in reply to Joshross #
  • http://twitpic.com/cj06h – these guys talked in the middle of the copp's crosswalk for 20 minutes forcing cars to go around. we were amazed #
  • @MicahHaley – i think i like your gift list better than most of the other ones i've heard. can i have the gift of mad dance moves? in reply to MicahHaley #
  • @Joshross – i'll probably not know until it is too late. in reply to Joshross #
  • about to talk with an old college friend. unfortunately my lips are presently burning off from the great general tso's chicken pam made. #
  • @johnthemember – oh i appreciate them. i just don't think they are as funny as you do 🙂 in reply to johnthemember #
  • this may sound stupid but i'm wondering how people view the word "gate." is it a positive thing or a negative? does it invite or exclude? #
  • @johnthemember – a legend in your own mind in reply to johnthemember #
  • @calvinb – nope. too many hippies! in reply to calvinb #
  • i hate running. don't believe anything positive i have ever said about running. those were lies. i hate running! bye, i have to go run. #
  • I just heard someone refer to Kansas as the world's largest natural airport. HA! That's great! #
  • I need someone who isn't a part of Tapestry & has 30 min to spare to preview the video sermon for this week. Interested? #
  • thanks to all who have volunteered to preview the video for me. I should have sent you a link by now. #

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not sure why i do this

since i and 6 other threads will be in nicaragua this coming sunday i thought it would be fun to try something diifferent for this week’s message. i thought it would be cool to do the message via a slightly interactive video message. there are several people who could and would gladly do the message but i thought the challenge of making the video would be cool.

of course, i thought this before i realized that i have not made a 30 minute video before on adobe premier elements 4.0. it’s cool video editing software but not what i have been used to. it has taken three days of work not including the studying and prep i did on the passage of scripture. it’s rendering right now and then i’ll see if it works. it would truly suck to find out after the fact that it wasn’t going to work.

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our stone of helping

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because of the washington elementary school’s gym floor being refinished tapestry couldn’t meet there tonight. therefore we went to iverson park and talked a little about what GOD has done over the past year. it’s been a pretty huge year for our little group that didn’t exist 11 months ago. so we talked about what GOD has done in and through tapestry since september ‘08. we talked about the people who have begun to explore faith in CHRIST and some who have come to faith in HIM. we talked about the $1,400 raised for clean water and attitudes that were changed through advent conspiracy. we talked about the the 8 in home care kits that were built by our little group of people following CHRIST. we talked about all the rooms that we painted at the hope center in an attempt to celebrate easter. we talked about all the acts of love, service, and faith that were made by threads on their own – as a part of their walk with CHRIST rather than a church program. then we grabbed stones wrote some reminders on them and built a cairn of reminders in the plover river (ala joshua 4:9).

it was a pretty cool night.

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the week in tweets – 2009-08-01

  • after 18 1/2 hours of driving we're home and i'm going to bed – i hope tapestry was great this past sunday & i can't wait to see everyone #
  • RT @lensweet: True worship stimulates, not just simulates, an experience of God. #
  • i'm sitting on the couch with one of my basset hounds watching "robin hood: men in tights" – a good evening #
  • @mygardenside – congrats rose! that's great! in reply to mygardenside #
  • @johnthemember – i love it when that happens. in reply to johnthemember #
  • oh yes! we have a good mexican restaurant in plover now – life is good! #
  • anyone ever use opensong for lyric projection? looking at it for tapestry's backup computer #
  • @bradwphoto – ironically this restaurant and several others across the nation that have co-oped together have they roots in a CA crossing in reply to bradwphoto #
  • @bsheets did you run while in NOLA. there is nothing like running in %100 humidity and 95 degrees. in reply to bsheets #
  • http://twitpic.com/c9lcs – once again the stevens point library proves to be the noisiest library in the nation but it does have great views #
  • just got back from catching a 30" muskie on 8lb test with no leader – ALOT OF FUN http://twitpic.com/cb8oc #
  • terrell "no TV" month starts tomorrow – a 15 yr tradition that also involves a drastic reduction in internet usage. #
  • @kara_nicole – that's a tough choice:) in reply to kara_nicole #

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the week in tweets – 2009-07-25

  • i have watched my chick-flick limit for the month. #
  • @hubbacm – good shoes and socks. never really been a problem. chaffing is more of an issue. in reply to hubbacm #
  • pam thinks has she taught a tapestry guy how to play poker by saying "you have to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them …" #
  • i was completely out fished by andy l. this morning – it was ugly. REAL UGLY! yet still fun. #
  • Traveling to BAMA! #
  • not sure there is a better family traveling podcast than the "wait, wait. don't tell me" podcast. the terrell clan loves listening to it. #
  • why does woot have to have a woot-off while i'm on the road? WHY? #
  • Passing through Megan Kelly's hometown – the land of the ducah's. #

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smash

one of the things i learned from the boys scout that has helped in planting tapestry was to “be prepared.”  this usually means having a plan and resources and then also having a back up plan and back up resources. this is why we pretty much have two of everything that we use on a sunday evenings. the reason for this is that you never know when someone (mainly me) is going to walk past the rear screen projector and accidently step on the wrong cord and cause the projector to drop 5’ onto the floor and smash. that’s what happened last night 15 minutes before we began.

now i have to see about getting a backup projector for what was formally our backup projector but is now our main one. i’m just glad that i was the first one to break a major piece of our equipment.