Buncha Stuff Sunday – Morning Edition

It may sound ridiculous to some of you, but I read about 45 blogs a day. I don’t visit all 45 sites -all of their updates are sent to my Bloglines page. While most of the blogs are from pastors and church planters, many of them aren’t.
Every day I look forward to reading Seth Godin’s blog. This guy is outrageously, inappropriately insightful with all things connected to leadership. His last two blog entries alone have blown me away and I will make great use of the information with our church plant! You need to read his blog regularly.
His post on "How to Organize the Room" may be boring to some of you, but it really got my creative juices flowing on what our Sunday morning services should look like.
His post today about "Low Hanging Fruit" was very surprising and thought-provoking. I probably thought differently and want to know how I can do what he is saying there.
If you go to look on the right hand side of this blog and scroll down some, you will see some of the blogs that I am reading.
Rai is about 8 weeks pregnant now and is still sick as a dog. We got to see the baby this week on the ultrasound. The baby is only 1 centimeter big and has a measurable heartbeat – can you believe that??? That’s insane to me. God is wonderful.
After much discussion and prayer, Rai and I made the difficult decision to send our niece and nephew that had been living with us this summer back to stay with their grandmother. With Rai so sick and me busting my butt, we were not able to handle it five kids with one on the way. This was a heart-wrenching decision, but we had to do it sooner than we planned.
I have been working around the clock on the website for our church plant and will blog about that more tonight. You can get a sneak peek of what it looks like (in progress) at www.Courageous.tv.
I have grown to like Facebook way more than I do MySpace, but might like Twitter better than both of them. It has really given me a personal glimpse into the lives of pastors and leaders that I really admire in a way that is very different than any other form of social media. The reverse is true as well – many friends, peers, strangers, and mentors are following my every move there and get to see what a day in the life of a young, urban church planter is all about.
After we launch our website in about 48 hours, I am going to put even more energy into building our launch team throughout July & August. I hope I always feel this way, but I have a sense of urgency to spread the Gospel and the transformative message of Jesus in a way that I never have before.
I will also begin a major fundraising push and am actually embracing the challenge.
I gotta go fix breakfast for the family in about 180 seconds before we get dressed to go to Buckhead Church. We love it there.
I hope you have a great day today!

{ 2 comments }

1 David June 29, 2008 at 2:53 pm: Website is awesome.
Once again you raised the bar my friend.
2 Shaun King June 29, 2008 at 4:33 pm: Thanks David!
Check out http://www.CloverSites.com – they are great people, affordable, and offer awesome websites for church plants. I love web design, but they help make it easy man!
-Shaun & Crew