It's been a busy week. I was determined last week to put in place some of the communication pieces that have been disorganized or non-existent. Last week I was working to get the church website in order so that new students would get the latest info when they visited. I have created a new email account for work at church, and I have the old email accounts forwarding mail to the new one. I created this new church-related blog and have also resumed posting on another blog that I do for our family. My Facebook account is up to date and I am using it to communicate with some of my friends. Yesterday I was contacted by an old high school friend that I have not talked with for decades.
All in all -- a productive week. Tonight I am finishing work on the sermon for the morning. We have a retired prof coming in to talk about his involvement with prison ministries. He will talk about the whole range of possibilities of ministry with prisoners -- from baking cookies to making visits. At one time I made regular visits with a church group in a maximum security prison. Now I visit in the prisons from time to time when family members phone (sometimes from out of state) and ask me to visit someone. Jesus, in his teaching, speaks about caring for prisoners and other neglected persons in society. I am hoping that someone will hear our speaker and decide that they want to be involved.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
September 2008
For the past year I have been tinking more and more about how communication will happen in coming years. Web, internet, email, Web 2.0, podcasts, blogs, Facebook -- all of this will be a big part of how we live and work together, and how we care for one another.
I have felt the traditional newsletters and bulletins at FPC to be a bit limited for all I would like to write. I would like to write about hopes and ideas, things I think and wonder about, and I would like to do it in a way that some conversations might emerge.
So here it is. I promise to post on a regular basis and to listen hard when I get responses through the blog, by email, by phone, or face-to-face settings. Let me know what you think.
I have felt the traditional newsletters and bulletins at FPC to be a bit limited for all I would like to write. I would like to write about hopes and ideas, things I think and wonder about, and I would like to do it in a way that some conversations might emerge.
So here it is. I promise to post on a regular basis and to listen hard when I get responses through the blog, by email, by phone, or face-to-face settings. Let me know what you think.
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