My friend, and fellow worrier, Chris and his new website assistant Janine from North Shore Church sat down for several hours today so they could learn how to use their new website. He went home and posted his first blog entry already tonight. I’m impressed.
So what’s the bid deal? Is a website so important for a church?
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One of my new favorite restaurants is Red Robin. Not because of their Royal Red Robin Burger(R)…
“This is the aristocrat of all burgers because we crown it with a fresh fried egg. In addition, topped with three strips of hickory-smoked bacon, American cheese, crisp lettuce, tomatoes and mayo.”
… but because of their attitude about service.
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Today @ MapleGrove we set another milestone. Most people on a non-FoodDay ever. We had 157 people today – which is also up from only 60 a year ago for the same weekend.
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Today was Todd’s first day at MapleGrove and (I think) just what we need right now to get us onto the top of the next mountain. It’s really exciting to see how all of this just happened to happen.
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This, my second year at Change Without Compromise, I really expected most of what I was going to hear would be review. Boy was I wrong. Brad Powell was able to drive home the need for change in the church without compromising the message in a new and engaging way that was totally different than last year.
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