Today I pose a question to the readers of this site (assuming there are any): What do you do if the members of a committee (all of whom are volunteers) which you lead need to meet and there isn’t a single day and time when everyone is available?
Do you a) meet when the most members [...]
Yesterday afternoon, The Gathering met at 12:15 to go ice skating at the Sunbury Ice Skating Rink. Once everyone had arrived, someone mentioned that Selinsgrove had a skating rink where everything was free. Having lived here almost ten years (four years in college, five years as an employee), I was surprised I’d never [...]
Saturday afternoon, my youth group went up to the Ronald McDonald House at Geisinger Medical Center
to prepare a meal for the families who were staying there. Unfortunately, because the event was on a Saturday, we only had three youth and four leaders attend.
Soon after arriving, we started preparing dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, garlic [...]
Friday night, members of The Gap got together and traveled to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville to help the NICU staff organize some care packages and binders for parents who have a newborn child staying in the intensive care unit.
When we arrived at the hospital, we split into two groups to tackle the two projects; [...]
Last night was the first Bible study of the spring, but the high school girls wanted to talk about some things, so we spent the evening talking. Since I can’t share what we spoke about, the only thing I can say is that we finally made a decision about Impact 2008!!
Four of our students [...]
I ran across this video at Josh Griffin’s blog. Thanks, Josh!
During my two weeks off from Christmas until just after New Year’s Day, I was able to spend some time reading one of the many books in my “to read” pile; at the top of the pile was John Ortberg’s If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat.
This [...]
Last night was The Gathering’s first meeting of the winter/spring season after two weeks off for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Parents were asked to attend so details of the spring schedule could be flushed out, particularly who prepares dinner and provides transportation. Additionally, I wanted to make a decision on whether or not [...]
