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| Just a reminder to all of you still here in Xangaland, I still read your posts I promise! I may not comment (because it requires me to log in with a password I don't often remember) but I do read them!
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| Like I stated in my previous post, I'm done with Xanga. They've crossed the line this time. So my new place of blogging residence is over at blogger.com
Direct your browser here
Or simply cut and paste this site: http://vissirion.blogspot.com/
Make sure you subscribe to the new page!
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| Ugh...
People peddling pornography (say that 10 times fast!) never seem to stop. Xanga apparently no longer sends the emails to your box with your friends recently added entries. So tonight I decided to see who had added any recent entries.
Since I haven't looked at the JBC Kids list in a while, I decided to take a glance at perhaps some of the new students entries.
They weren't new students...but porn entries.
So...as soon as I finish getting the details done on my blogger site, I'll continue to use Xanga. But from what I've come to understand, Xanga has no problems allowing pornographic pictures and videos on their sites (as long as you can prove you are of legal age...) I have problems with that so I will be closing my Xanga account here soon.
I'll keep you all updated when and where that will occur.
Until then, be careful out in XXXanga land.
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| Today, nearly 7 weeks later, I finally had a piece of wedding cake. On your wedding day you're just so busy getting all your pictures done and and tryign to talk to all your family and friends and do weddings and reach your hand up your brides dress in front of everyone to get a small piece of fabric. There was just no time to eat!
In fact, on our way to the hotel that night, we stopped at Cracker Barrel to eat.
Yes...we stopped to eat.
Carrie's mom had managed to get some of the cake and freeze it. I'm guessing so we could have some on our one year...but Carrie finds that tradition weird...and who am I to turn down cake? Haven't done it before, don't plan on starting today.
But all of this is to say...the cake was good!
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| I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think others have as well. And I'm not going to say what is wrong and what is right, but only from what I have observed. And this is pretty bold of me to say, because if churches followed this...I'd be out of a job! But that's ok.
I think one of the worst things a church can do is hire a full time minister or staff member. Why? I'm glad you asked! Because when a church hires a minister, the church wide mentality (generalization there...I'll expand later) becomes "We've hired someone to do the job...therefore I can sit back and relax."
Now, before we go any farther, realize I'm not picking on Reddington--because this is not just an RCC thing, but nationwide. Every church I have been heavily involved in has been like this. It becomes the youth minister's job to make disciples out of the kids--not the parents. It becomes the Senior minister's job to provide the teaching on Sunday--not the "members". Individual Christian responsibility becomes null and void when someone is hired. Some of the most successful youth ministries I have seen have come from churches that have no youth minister, but a good group of parents who have taken on that responsibility to train not only their own children, but to help other parent's in bringing up their kids as well. Freetown's Church is a great example of this. Small church, but large youth and children's ministries for their size...with no staff member to lead them because they have taken the responsibility themselves.
In working with other youth ministers, the struggle is ALWAYS the same--finding volunteers to staff programs. It's like asking people to drink poison or something, and thankfully we have amazing people at RCC to work with our kids. But we're still always short--and that's the way it is across the county.
What do we need to do to help teach our congregations that being a Christian is MORE than going to church and listening to a sermon on Sunday? It's MORE than voting Republican (although I could make the case that Christians SHOULDN'T vote that way). It's more than putting a fish on the back of your car.
It's about loving each other. Loving your neighbors.
Using your spiritual gifts to serve in the church.
Making disciples.
Worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth
So if you're a church looking to hire staff-start within your own congregation to fill roles and see what you can get done. When people see a legitimate need...they come to help.
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