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What To Do First to Make a Profit

The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat  ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're  not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director.  Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year.  God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
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Harvest Carnival




Tonight was the Harvest Carnival outreach at Northside. It went really awesome! I personally did the registration table, and the women's ministries did the cotton candy booth. We had everything from moon bounces to a dunk tank, a cake walk, a hayride, absolute TONS of candy and much more.

This afternoon while I was sitting at my desk working, Larry calls me on the phone and says, "come out to the parking lot - we just got this moon bounce hooked up." (He knows, I love them.) So I came out and although I was dressed for work as I usually am - in a dress, I hopped in anyway and started to go crazy. Everything was fine until my slip fell down. (I was wearing a half slip and it's gotten kinda loose with losing more weight.) Cathy laughed so hard. I was trying to gracefully pull it back up without lifting up my dress but the thing is, it was difficult to accomplish and the guys were outside. I finally got it back up without showing anything that shouldn't be shown in public. Moments later after finally getting the slip back up, Dustin hopped in the thing with me (he works at NS with us, remember?) and he starts jumping away and knocking me every which way but loose.

It was a busy and a fun day. I'm working double hard this week and next Mon-Wed trying to do next week's work as well (that I would do if I was here) but won't be able to do because I'll be in Africa.

Something really significant happened today! I can't blog about it in detail yet because I'm still praying about it and Larry and I are figuring things out, but I just got a really interesting offer today and I'm seriously considering it. God works in mysterious ways.

By the way, at WW weigh in today I lost 1/2 pound. Yippee-aye-aye! Now that's something to jump about...

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Lisa N Alexander said…
I showed Lindsey and Evan your picture and they absolutely loved it! Congrats on the weight loss!
11:07 AM
Anonymous said…
Congrats on the weight loss. Just curious, did you get rid of the slip or keep it?
8:32 AM
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