So today was an awesome day spent at NewSpring Church. One of my great friends, Dorsia Atkinson, is in the NewSpring church’s pastor’s (Perry Noble) coaching network. NewSpring church. They allowed us to sit in on their staff meeting which was awesome.

Also I would be leaving out one of the best details out of the way if I didn’t mention Julie Keith. She was our personal host for the day. She went way above and beyond helping us out. I can honestly say I experienced radical hospitality today.

Here our some quick hits on the day.

  • Vision Leaks – Perry Spent most of the staff meeting talking vision not logistics. It was inspiring and motivating!
  • Love your pastor – You don’t have to agree 100%, but loving and supporting your pastor will allow you to go further faster
  • To work @ NewSpring you have to be tall…really they are all like 7ft tall.
  • Pastor’s should only preach six weeks in a row, “after that you start to sound like a jerk” plus it good to give your pastor some rest.
  • NewSpring is like a huge playground for Christians – You get to hang out and serve with cool people, but most importantly be Jesus to people.

It was great to be around great people.

I’m in Anderson, South Carolina right now updating my blog for the first time since like the end of football season. Anyways I’m in South Carolina to go check out NewSpring Church’s staff meeting.

Perry Noble Pastor of NewSpring

I love going to staff meetings at my church because: a) I get paid b) you really get  a sense of who likes their job. Look forward to blogging my ideas about the staff meeting, especially since our staff meeting was cancelled this week.

am i listening?

February 23, 2010

I love my major. Learning in Communication Arts allows us to learn to think critically and then spit out our ideas of whatever the topic or situation is. It allows us to communicate to the world what we think. And so it helps us in this world we live in where we are suppose to constantly put “what we think” out there. The most popular websites are sites like twitter (you can read mine at the bottom of this page), facebook, and blogs. My question is do we ever really stop to listen? Or are we getting just enough info to fill 140 characters?

There is so much noise around. Ask yourself, am I really hearing anything through all of it? And am I only adding to it?