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Men@HBC Wild Game Dinner

Well, I’m head of the men’s ministry at Highland Baptist Church and we had our first Wild Game Dinner last night. We had 15 guys present, and we had a great time. Our speaker was Kevin Bryant.

Kevin began a law enforcement career in 1974 with the St. Louis Police Department. In 1977, he accepted a job with the Missouri Department of Conservation. He retired after 27 ½ years. He currently pastors at Southwood Baptist Church in Beech Grove Indiana.

Some of the dishes we had were deep-fried turkey, elk roast, deer chilli, rabbit stew, salmon, sushi, and deer stew. The food was great. Before we ate, we played guess the pelt with some pelts I had borrowed from the Ohio DNR. The winners were Doctor Heaton and his son (they both tied). After eating, Kevin showed us some videos from the Missouri Department of Conservation’s program to catch road “poachers” (I refuse to call them hunters….they are beneath that). These people shot at this fake deer 1-18 times. I don’t know about you, but I would begin to get suspicious if I shot and the deer didn’t fall over dead or run away. One of the videos even showed a man who had been caught earlier the same day road hunting! He was caught, he went home, got his wife’s gun, went back out, and was caught again! These people are nuts!

Thanks to all who came, and a special thanks to Kevin Bryant for coming to speak to us!

[Update 2012-12-26 14:52:53] The link to the Missouri Department of Conservation’s site was wrong.  I updated it to the correct link.

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Sunday School Material

Kevin Bryant was in Columbus this past weekend for Highland Baptist Church Men's Wild Game Dinner. After the dinner, he and I began talking about Sunday School material and its cost. It turns out he has been writing his own material for sometime. Anyway, I asked him if he would be willing to let me put his material on my website so that others might use it. He said no problem!

So, be patient, but free Sunday School literature is on its way. I will post a message once I have the material on the webiste in my store.

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Bill Rawlinson

Well, yesterday in the mail, we received our Christmas card from the Rawlinsons. Turns out, Lisa had misplaced it and they just found it. I thought that was funny…something I would do. Well, I saw him online today so I decided to IM him. I found out he has a few blogs I thought I would link to them here just so I could find the URLs later when I wanted to read them.

Read Bill’s Technicial Blog
Read Bill’s Personal Blog

[Update 2012-12-26 14:54:10] Bill moved his code blog to host it with his domain name.  Although, he was nice and redirected the old address, I updated this to the new address.

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Daily Devotion Thoughts

For those of you who are more curious about what my pastor said, today's My Utmost for His Highest sums it up:

Acts 26:19: Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision

If we lose the vision, we alone are responsible, and the way we lose the vision is by spiritual leakage. If we do not run our belief about God into practical issues, it is all up with the vision God has given. The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God's highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision. The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

"Though it tarry, wait for it." We cannot attain to a vision, we must live in the inspiration of it until it accomplishes itself. We get so practical that we forget the vision. At the beginning we saw it but did not wait for it; we rushed off into practical work, and when the vision was fulfilled, we did not see it. Waiting for the vision that tarries is the test of our loyalty to God. It is at the peril of our soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical work and miss the fulfilment of the vision.

This is the most difficult part for me…waiting. I usualy have the mindset of "Do something, even if it's wrong." But God wants us to wait on Him. Things will happen in his time. Remember, Jesus was only in "ministry" for 3 years. He waited 30 years till the time was right. Who among us would claim that Jesus was ineffective because He waited? Even if we have to wait 10, 20, or 30 years for God to get us where He needs us, we will accomplish much more for Him than we ever could by our own means.

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Job Stuff

Well, I have applied for a job with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. They had one opening that fit me very well (it was a programmer position), and another that would be a good entrance into the organization–it was called a Business Process Analyst. This has me very exited. Imagine working for a group that sends missionaries all over the world!

I also talked to my pastor last night about what Cyndi and I are going through. I went primarily to see what he would want to know before allowing us to be presented to the church for their “sending”. Basically, the answer was all he needed to see was evidence of al “call”. What this means is that we would say something like “Pastor Kent, we believe God is calling us to do X” and that would be sufficient. We also talked a little about the situation, etc…. Basically, what came out of it was that we are doing what we should be doing now. We are availble for God to use us. We are looking for opportunities. We are seeking God and what he wants.

To all who are praying out there, THANK YOU. Please continue to pray that God would show us where he wants us to go and what he wants us to do. Pray that His will would be done. Pray that God would continue to draw us closer to him.

On the NiSource front, we don’t know anything more yet. We just know they are “looking” at outsourcing. According to the timeline they gave to us, the 2 outsourcers should have their RFP responses back to the company shortly (well, the timeline has this happening starting now and going through mid-April). Then, NiSource will review them and decide what to do by mid-May.

[Update 2012-12-26 14:51:06] I had the IMB link wrong (either that, or they used to also have imb.net too)

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Paper Airplanes

Today, I went searching for a site online that had free paper airplane patterns. I cam across several, but the one that proved most interesting to me was BestPaperAirplane.com. If you want the listing site I found, it is here.

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Resume

Well, I decided to have my resume professionally written. At the recomendation of a coworker, I went to Janice Worthington. She is a ball of fire. Her resumes look great. She has over 30 years experience in the field, so she has the history to make this thing look good. She offers other services too (interview coaching, resume distribution, etc…). She is sending me a questionare to fill out so she has the information to put in the resume. Once that is done, I should have my resume in a week or two.

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Sermons and ThePath

I talked to ThePath and they have told me I can post mp3s of the sermons! THANK YOU to ThePath and to Cedarville University for allowing me to do this! The gentleman I spoke with is even interested in talking with me about my ideas on Free (as in freedom not free pizza) material! That is very encouraging.

Now, I’m sure they would like me to point out that just because they allowed me to do this once doesn’t mean I’ll be able to do it again. But, as the saying goes…”How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” This has my foot in the door with someone who is somewhere where they can really make a difference.

If you live in the Cedarville, Columbus, Dayton, etc… area, I would urge you to listen to (and support) ThePath. Their webiste has a list of stations and coverage areas. They even have an internet radio station, so you can listen online.

[Update 2012-12-26 14:56:26] Cedarville sold ThePath and you can not listen online any more.

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Ski Trip

You may have noticed that I didn't get to post anything this weekend. Cyndi and I went skiing with our church youth group. We went to Timberline. The skiing was great! I should have a link to pictures up shortly.