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In high school and university, I swam competitively. I wish I could say that I was Olympic caliber, but I was far from it! I was OK for competitive swimming. The most nerve-wracking part of swim team was tryouts. Because I wasn’t at the top of the roster, it was never a sure thing I’d make the team. It was hard to know if I’d trained hard enough and gotten my times down enough to make the cut.
June 27, 2010 – Sunday
This is the first Sunday in 10 years where I don’t have to worry about what’s going on at church. It’s not that I didn’t like being on a church staff as a children’s pastor. I loved it. In the past couple of years, though, I’ve felt a greater passion to be a more global influence on the world of children’s ministry. I’ve loved my time working with a local church, and I still think that is important. For me, though, I had to make a choice: either devote myself more to the church I was serving in and give up much of the networking and research and writing I’ve been doing or take a leap and devote myself more to learning more about culture and theology and how it all relates to how the Church reaches out to children and families. It’s not that I had to choose which one was “better.” I had to choose where I was going to focus my passions. As we continue on this crazy move, I sometimes wonder why I’ve chosen the latter.
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June 26, 2010 – Saturday
Today was our LONG day… 10 hour drive! We survived, though. Our children are awesome… and so is our dog. My arms did go numb, though, from driving the moving truck for that long.
Day 2 was the day for tears from both Erin and I.
(photo originally uploaded to Flickr by _Nathan_W_)
I’ve been blown away by how many people I do not know personally who are praying for us and working their connections to help us on this next chapter of our lives. Thanks to all of you in the Elemental CM community. You are a blessing and encouragement to us as we take this crazy faith journey.
I thought I’d blog a bit about our 6 day trek from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Northern California.
(photo originally uploaded to Flickr by Mastery of Maps)
If I had been a good scheduled blogger, then I would have written a bunch of posts that would be scheduled to show up over the next few days. I’m not that good right now :) I’m going on vacation to the Magic Kingdom as well as some of the other parks at Disney World. So hold down the blogosphere for me while I’m gone.
I may go through withdrawals…
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As part of the blog tour for What’s In The Bible, I was given two certificates by Tyndale House Publishers to give away on my blog along with my review.
The winner of the certificate for Volume 1: In the Beginning is Patti Gibbons!
The winner of the certificate for Volume 2: Let My People Go is Emily Gist!
I will be sending the winners a direct msg via Twitter to get your snail mail addresses and send you the certificate for the volume you won.
Thanks to everyone who entered and read the review. You can get your own copies of What’s In The Bible Volumes 1 and 2 from your local Christian book retailer or online at Christianbook.com. Thanks also to Tyndale House Publishers for generously providing the video for me to review and the gift certificates to give away.
I almost forgot about announcing the winner of a copy of Formational Children’s Ministry!
And the winner is… after assigning numbers to each of the entries and going on Random.org for a random number… is….
Stephanie Boyles! She entered via Twitter. I’ll be sending Stephanie a direct message via Twitter to get her info and send her book along! Congrats!
A few days ago, I wrote a review of Formational Children’s Ministry as part of the book blog tour for it. I already had obtained a copy of the book for myself before being asked to be a part of the blog tour. Today, I received the complimentary copy from Baker Books. I don’t need it since I have a marked up copy already.
If you would like a chance to win this copy, you need to do one of two things:
I will randomly choose someone at the end of the week and send them a copy of the book.
If you want another chance to win the book, Amy Dolan is giving away a free copy over on her blog!
