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...
I was asked to take down the blog post that I wrote earlier today. Out of respect, I did so but am offering it through private e-mail with my husband's blessing, if you are a friend who I know personally and you consider yourself a conservative. In the short time it was public on the web I got great feedback about it. If you would like to read it, please PM me here. Interestingly enough about five hours after posting it, I received an e-mail from the "White House Correspondence Team." I'm serious. Here it is:
Dear Friend, Thank you for your message. On behalf of President Obama, we appreciate hearing from you. The President has promised the most transparent administration in history, and we're committed to listening to and responding to you. The Presidential Correspondence Team
Geez, they must have somebody checking every five minutes to see what people are writing. Let's hope they are as good at responding to terrorists as they are pastors.
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Thank you!!!
However, I had to remove the post. Knowing how sensitive people can be about some things in the church (not just my church - any church) my husband asked me to take the post down since it could have truly upset some people. There was nothing unGodly about it, in fact it was actually exposing some unGodly things, however, any of you who are pw's know how that goes.
If you consider yourself a conservative and you would like a copy of the post please email me at PastorDeanna@aol.com and I will be glad to send it to you privately. It's basically a dissertation on factual current world events that you might find very interesting. I have saved it in my drafts so that I can privately mail it to anybody who wants a copy.
This is one of things things I do not like about the ministry. I think upon retirement from pastoring one day I will write a VERY long blog post saying everything I longed with all my heart to say for so many years but was not able to. Anybody with me on that?
Oh well, back to being as real as I can possibly get away with...
Dear Friend,
Thank you for your message. On behalf of President Obama, we appreciate hearing from you. The President has promised the most transparent administration in history, and we're committed to listening to and responding to you.
The Presidential Correspondence Team
Please do send me the post I would love to read it. I am amazed that you have gotten a letter. I will have to let Sean know this cause his blog discusses President Obama and other political things.
Love ya girl!
Missy
I think the White House Team meant to say: "Thank you for disagreeing with us. It doesn't matter what you say because we'll do what we want anyways. Thank you for caring and have a nice day."
(Yes, I meant to say it backwards like that.) :-)