A Day Off
Ahhhhh.....
It seems strange taking a day off from church. But for me, church is an experience where I go to serve others. It is about taking time from my day to try and make the best presentation of the gospel that I can do and it generally is a fairly stressful day for me. I'm up by 0520 to get to the mall by 0630 and try to have most things running by 0800 so the band can begin practicing. By 0900, we have the volunteer meeting, at 0930 we open the doors for people to come in, at 0945 the band starts playing and at 1000 I'm up welcoming people to church. At 1100 we are done, but that leaves only 1130 to tear everything down and get it packed away. I'm usually talking to people for a while and don't leave the mall until 1200. That's a 5.5 hour day on the weekend.
This Sunday, I took a day off.
Not just me, but the entire family. And we played out on our farm. I was able to take time this weekend to walk around the pasture with the kids fixing fence and pointing out how the pasture is starting to get some green to it. I enjoy the manual labor involved in farming. It's good to work with our hands and actually accomplish some task. It was a fun weekend!
But I'm back now! We had the production meeting this morning to discuss what went right and what went wrong on Sunday as well as put together the run for the upcoming Sunday. While I enjoyed the time off, I still missed church. I'll be back next Sunday!
It seems strange taking a day off from church. But for me, church is an experience where I go to serve others. It is about taking time from my day to try and make the best presentation of the gospel that I can do and it generally is a fairly stressful day for me. I'm up by 0520 to get to the mall by 0630 and try to have most things running by 0800 so the band can begin practicing. By 0900, we have the volunteer meeting, at 0930 we open the doors for people to come in, at 0945 the band starts playing and at 1000 I'm up welcoming people to church. At 1100 we are done, but that leaves only 1130 to tear everything down and get it packed away. I'm usually talking to people for a while and don't leave the mall until 1200. That's a 5.5 hour day on the weekend.
This Sunday, I took a day off.
Not just me, but the entire family. And we played out on our farm. I was able to take time this weekend to walk around the pasture with the kids fixing fence and pointing out how the pasture is starting to get some green to it. I enjoy the manual labor involved in farming. It's good to work with our hands and actually accomplish some task. It was a fun weekend!
But I'm back now! We had the production meeting this morning to discuss what went right and what went wrong on Sunday as well as put together the run for the upcoming Sunday. While I enjoyed the time off, I still missed church. I'll be back next Sunday!
posted by Pastor Tom at 1:53 PM
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