I mispell things!
not sure why but this morning seems to have been a grumpy old man day for me. things that don’t normally bother me at all have been driving me nuts. it’s just a grumpy, old man kind of day. they happen every now and then. hopefully, pam and the boy’s would say that they don’t happen very often.
i pretty much feel like this:
ht drew
it looks a little like this.
18 people showed up at the salvation army hope center to paint yesterday. not bad for a church that is averaging around 40 at the moment. we actually had more people than we had work – which means that we will have to find a lot more things to resurrect for next year’s holy week. this is a great problem.
anyhow in 3 hours we had three rooms changed from beat up to spotless. we’re painting again friday and saturday. the room in the above photo was a wonderful pepto bismol pink before we started painting before we starting painting. several of the guys couldn’t understand why it would need painting 😉
i just got fooled by sojo.net.
i get the sojourner’s email updates. i probably lean a little left of center but i still don’t always agree with everything that jim wallis and sojourners say. anyhow, the email today indicated that rush limbaugh was going to be delivering a keynote address at sojo’s mobilization to end poverty.
my first thought when reading this was “really?!?!?”.
my second thought was “REALLY?!?!?!?!?”
i just couldn’t see this happening. i’ve been gone a couple of days and out of the news loop but i still thought i would have heard something concerning a right wing spokesperson buddying up to a left wing spokesperson.
so they got me. their prank convinced me enough that i didn’t start believing anything was fake until i watched the above video. watching the video i decided that i should probably skip to the end of the email and see if this was a prank.
yep, it was. i was fooled.
SIDE NOTE – if anyone has any interesting stories of life defeating death i would love to hear them and possibly use them at tapestry this sunday.
SIDE SIDE NOTE – i haven’t pulled a good april fool’s day joke in years. i need to work on one.
i’m pretty pumped about two conferences that i will be going to this year. the two conferences are:
btw, if anyone is going to be in austin (q 2009) or chicago (theological conversation) for those two conferences i would be very interested in grabbing a room with you.
SIDE NOTE – i was driving to emy j’s coffee today and saw this car on fire from a three car collision that had happened moments before. i stopped to make sure everyone was okay and left when the police officers arrived an started shooing people away (they had this brilliant idea that it would probably be wise to move people away from the gasoline containing vehicles that were on fire and might explode – not sure why we were all comfortable standing 40’ away from this). anyhow, there were injuries but the officer believed that everyone was going to be okay.
i’ve seen vehicles catch on fire before but never actually as a result of an accident until today.
i have news for those of you following the “my mom likes grant’s blog better than mine” fact. my mother just admitted it!
that’s right she just said out loud that she prefers reading grant’s blog to reading her oldest son’s blog. how sad is that?
i have a gnome friend, his name is clive. he joined the terrell household while we were living in baton rouge. when i announced to parkview that i was leaving to move up to wisconsin to plant a church eric landy, one of the teens in the youth ministry, stole clive and took him on a little adventure. he drove clive around baton rouge and took pictures of clive doing pretty typical baton rouge things (like going to death valley, visiting the state capitol, visiting the art center, eating at cane’s, or seeing the mississippi river). i’ve been meaning to post the photos for a year and a half and i finally got around to it.
SIDE NOTE – we arrived in alabama, said hi to my parents, went to sleep, and then went to eat mexican food – mhmmmm. during the dinner conversation i found out that my mom likes reading grant’s blog better than mine. this hurts.
i want to let all my fellow tapestrites know that perry polnaszek is speaking at tapestry sunday night. perry is the planter and pastor of fellowship church in chippewa falls as well as the co-founder of touched twice united (a very cool ministry opportunity that we at tapestry will have a chance to be a part of later). perry has JESUS all over him. if you are in point this weekend i would highly encourage you to come hear perry. in fact, i’m a little jealous that i won’t get to hear him.
SIDE NOTE – if you’re interested in joining a ncaa basketball tournament bracket now is the time to do it. tapestry’s bracket can be found facebook. just go to my profile, if we’re not friends already then send me a friend request, and then look on my profile sidebar. or let me know and i’ll send you an invite.
graphjam is great.
my spring 2009 d.min seminar is coming up (march 18-20). this trimester i am taking “church planting leadership” which kind of seems to fit with what i’m going through. 😉 as a part of the course i need to submit my strengthsfinder profile for dr. allen to see and thankfully during pam and my teamamerica church planting assessment we had to go through the clifton strengthsfinder profile. nice to have something finished already. 🙂
anyhow, i thought my mom (if no one else) would like to see this so i’m posting my profile for everyone to see and then linking it to dr. allen for him to get it.
here’s the monthly prayer email i put out for tapestry. if you do not receive this and would like to please let me know and i will add you to the list.