This week!

I am really really looking forward to this week!! Here’s why -

• Monday – hang out with my family after crossing like ships in the night for the past few days. My two-year old has become very attached to her four-month old sister and was in a pretty big funk on Saturday when she realized that Emmy was away with mom.
• Tuesday & Wednesday – head out to Niagara Falls for a two-day getaway with the ministry staff from our church. This year has been NUTS and it’s really our first time to get away together in about a year and a half. In that past year and a half three of us have had babies (well, our wives have!) and one other staff member is now pregnant. Yes, we are in a baby boom at our church.
• Thursday – I’m heading down to Oakville where I lived for a couple years and served on staff at a church before we moved to Orangeville. I’m going to be spending some time with my friend Craig who is the worship pastor at The Meeting House. Craig & I are running a joint songwriting workshop in the fall for our ministry volunteers and thought we’d set the example by doing some songwriting together. Unfortunately our time together will not include a visit to the Colborne Street Cafe, just about my favourite little hang-out spot in the whole world.
• Friday – review all of the A/V reports from our consultants to present to our building team at a meeting next week. You may or may not know that earlier this year we went through a fundraising campaign called BEYOND to raise pledges towards several things, including the expansion of our building. I am overseeing the A/V implementation team and we have been having an awesome time coming up with some creative solutions for things like – live audio/video syncing between venues, projection assistance for worship teams, lighting controls for our gym, stage design for our new North Venue, etc etc etc. I love this stuff and doing it with guys who really know what they’re talking about is awesome!!

Of course on top of all that is the regular “get ready for Sunday” stuff and the madness of preparing for the craziness that is September.