No, I haven’t lead the Red Sox to an 8-0 record in World Series games.
It’s been cool enough in the office that I’ve been wearing a Phillies sweatshirt around the office for the past couple weeks.

I feel like Francona in that I’m still wearing my regulation work clothes under the sweatshirt.
Except nobody has asked to [...]

1) CRM
A) Monthly Guest list
B) thoughts on redesigning and simplifying Attendance / Connection
i) combine prayer requests & praise reports
ii) add contact info for PRs
iii) create ‘CARE Corner’ on back
iv) add privacy Q to PRs
2) No CEM roster mailings or emailings
A) only 2 teachers returned rosters in the initial 6 week trial period
3) ShelbyLIfe
A) edited contact [...]

BIBLE – general study on book/subject of the bible
CAM – creative arts
FINC – financial
FORM – spiritual formation
FORUM – open forum
GRIEF – grief recovery
LANG – foreign language [including sign language]
LIFE – general life improvement [i.e. parenting, divorce recovery, leadership]
LOVE – relationship and/or spiritual heart
MEN – men’s
MISSION – missions
PRAY – concentrating on prayer
STUDY – in-depth study of [...]

1) CEM
A) first day of emailing rosters instead of mailing
i) process is more complicated than mailing
a) mailing rosters = creating & printing entire semester at once
b) emailing rosters = creating each class roster, saving each as pdf, emailing each roster, printing those of teachers w/o emails
2) DBM
A) computer security scans
B) achived ‘Inbox Zero’ last wednesday!
C) [...]

1) DBM
A) explained to a CAG intern what i do
i) sunday tasks
ii) database monitoring
a) attendees / prospects / misc
b) volunteers
iii) misc data entry
B) sunday tasks
i) solution to printing CE teacher roster still pending

1) CAM
A) propose processing the production postcard mailing lists on the same dates each year
i) less possibility of missing individuals from processing list at different dates each year
ii) lead pastor’s monthly postcards mailing may vary each year – eliminating duplicate or un- coverage
2) CEM
A) propose process review of roster printing/mailing/emailing
i) emailing all rosters would be [...]

this past Sunday, I overheard my church’s Children’s Pastor talking about what he did Saturday Night. actually, instead of saying what he did on Saturday Night, he phrased it as ‘I updated my Facebook status to say…’
my Wife and I were at a church dinner when an elderly couple seated next to us leaned over [...]

I always debate w/ myself on how to abbreviate ‘Volunteers’ in Shelby. Should it be ‘VT’ or ‘VOL’? Holding to the ??M standard ministry abbreviation, the Volunteer Ministry is abbreviated VTM. But also holding to the ???VTM standard profile abbreviations, a volunteer in any ministry is designated w/ VOL??M.
1) VTM
A) updating VOL??M lists
2) DBM
A) ABM
i) [...]

1) DBM
A) sunday tasks
i) new CEM attendance procedures have sped up sunday tasks a lot
a) RACE sign-in sheets instead of individual attendance slips
b) KDS sign-in – only those present 1 of 6 previous weeks
B) city list
i) active attendees grouped by city
a) used pivot table
C) Pew Callers
D) annual evaluation
2) CEM
A) handing attendance folders directly one-on-one (& [...]

“I don’t believe you run government based on hope.”
- State Treasurer Jack Markell (D), Candidate for Delaware Governor.
WDEL Election HQ
While we’re at it, here’s another great quote recently found in the internet.
“Not unlike a mosquito-infested swamp, the Web has been a rich breeding ground of viral phenomena.”
- PCWorld: A decade of Internet superstars
1) DBM
A) data [...]