Transformational Small Churches webinar recap

Stevan    General, Linkage, Ministry    

I thoroughly enjoyed the “Transformational Small Churches” webinar that Ed Stetzer‘s team at LifeWay put on today.

Very thankful for web-streaming technology and the ability to tune into the broadcast with hundreds of others to be encouraged and challenged.

I took some notes during the 7-hour event and posted them here.

Paragliding over Shippensburg

Stevan    General, Images, Linkage    

I read in the paper just last week about an event at the Shippensburg airport called Slugfest. Apparently this is the second-year paragliders have converged in Ship for this event.

This morning on my way to the office I pulled over and took a few photos of the early-flyers and then this afternoon I took Ella with me back to the airport for some more flight-enjoyment! This event will definitely go on my calendar for next year, too!

Sunday Review | 2010.08.29

Stevan    General, Ministry    

I preached the third message in our current series, “Holy & Human” this week. This week’s message was entitled, “Conquering Fear” and reminded us that although there are many books on the subject of ridding our lives of all fear, that is not a part of God’s plan. We have been designed with fear – and some fear keeps us safe. It’s when fear overtakes us and becomes an idol in our life that we find trouble.

This week we had my cousin, Brock and his family visiting us from the Washington, DC area. Jess and I enjoyed singing FFH’s “One of These Days” with Brock for special music. After my sermon this week we also had Rev. Randy Swink, our District Superintendent, visiting and he performed our official pastoral installation ceremony.

It was a great and exhausting Sunday. The night before, Brock and I joined a couple of guys from the church and we drove to Harrisburg to serve the homeless with the Bethesda Mobile Mission.

Sunday Review | 2010.08.22

Stevan    General, Ministry    

This morning I preached the second message in the series, “Holy & Human” entitled, “Overwhelmed but Unmoved” which reminded us to respond to overwhelming situations by acknowledging our limitations, accomplishing something, and thinking about “such things” (remembering our focus).

Of course on the Sunday I preach about how we should respond to being overwhelmed I was quite overwhelmed. From technology issues to music issues, it was a challenge to work through the issues of the day and focus solely on worship and the Word but the Lord prevailed and I felt like it was a good morning.

Sadly my attempt at recording the sermon failed again this week, posing as another area of frustration that I need to get sorted out before next week!

The Pillow Pet Fiasco

Stevan    Family, General, Videos    

The Sheets family (namely, Ella) recently acquired a Pillow Pet (style: Lady Bug). This was a significant purchase in our household and most of the ordeal was captured by various video-recording devices for archive-sake.

Enjoy:

AUGUST 15, 8:13PM | “Frustrated”

AUGUST 15, 8:17PM | “Pillow Pets Jingle”

AUGUST 15, 8:36PM | “Commercial Quoting”

AUGUST 15, 8:42PM | “Counting her pennies”

AUGUST 21, 9AM | “Pillow Pet Arrives & Is Unboxed”