TIME OUT - MY FAMILY...#2

By -

Beyond being blessed with being married to my best friend, Christy and I have been also blessed with three ABSOLUTELY AMAZING BEAUTIFUL AWESOME CRAZY kids! And because inquiring minds want to know, I want to share a little about them.

ASHLEY CHRISTINE - is our oldest, and she has forsaken her father, turned her back on me and went and got married, (okay, so I am still adjusting, lol)! I am so proud of Ashley, she is one of the WORSHIP LEADERS of our church, and has a huge heart for God. Ash married one of the MINISTRY LEADERS of our church Michael Tinney, who happens to be a very nice guy who also loves the Lord and serves God with all his heart. HOWEVER, he will never, oh never mind, lol!

CALEY CHRISTINE - our second daughter, the middle child! Caley just finished a year of Bible college. She is a passionate follower of Jesus and is an AMAZING LEADER in our STUDENT MINISTRY. Caley has promised me that she will never get married and that she will always remain daddy's little girl, or am I just making that up, I'll never tell! Although there is this guy named Tom who seems to be around our place a lot, I am sure he is juts lost.

CODY ANTHONY - aka HEIR TO THE THRONE - Cody is the man, and we enjoy golfing together, playing bball, and wiffleball on the beach. Cody is one of those type of kids that to be around him is to love him, and no I am not biased it's the truth. Unfortunately, about three days ago Cody went missing somewhere in his room. We believe he is still in there, just can't find him in his typical 15 year old guys room, lol! God has a unique plan for Cody's life and I am enjoying watching it unfold.

MY PARENTS - I just want to give an extra shout out to my parents, who are two of the most committed Christ followers I have ever known. They both serve out church full time for the Love of Jesus. Mom works in the office, and dad watches over the building. I am blessed to be able to share ministry with them. My sister and her husband also voluntarily work around the church several days of the week.

Well I hope this gives everybody a little insight into my family. And tomorrow we will continue with more leadership ideas.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NOTHING CAN REPLACE THE LOCAL CHURCH

By -
Image
A pastor friend of mine and I were talking about the season the LOCAL CHURCH finds herself in right now. After our conversation he put this little slide together which is so true. Just remember this isnt burning on other GREAT MINISTRIES and PASTORS but those ministries need to be more like a 5 hour energy drink and not your main meal. Everyone needs THE LOCAL CHURCH and YOUR LOCAL CHURCH needs you. And more importantly THE LOCAL CHURCH is GODS PLAN for every Christians life. STAY CONNECTED...
Read more

LEADERS LEAD

By -
In the book GO BIG the author suggests as goes the pastor so goes the church. In the GRANITE CONTEXT I would put it this way, AS GOES THE MINISTRY LEAD SO GOES THAT MINISTRY. We are a team oriented, team driven church, meaning, as LEAD PASTOR allot of sharing has been given out in our ministry, with the PRIVILEGE comes incredible RESPONSIBILITY. One of the things I have been encouraging our MINISTRY LEADS in 2011 is to GET YOUR HANDS OFF THE MINISTRY AND ONTO THE MINISTERS. As a HIGH LEVEL LEADER you cannot afford to get bogged down in programs and must stayed focused on people, your ministry people. Eph. 4:11-12, encourages us to EQUIP SAINTS, not to run programs. Programs are important but they do not warrant our attention tot he point of neglecting our teams. It will be our team members who will provide healthy programs, as we pour our lives in maintaining healthy leaders. So lets make this post a little more interactive than usual and throw out some ideas on how to LOVE ON
Read more

Got To Love It

By -
I am NOT venting in this post, I am simply sharing with you some of the crazy yet humorous things that happened in the past 7 days. 1. We had a former family who left our church a couple of years ago try to recruit one of our faithful families because we don't teach or use the Bible at GRANITE. 2. We had a family leave the church this week because we are to strict on how we teach the Bible and how serious we are about it. 3. I had a "christian" family tell me they left the church because of that darn rock and roll music we use sometimes to open up our services. 4. I baptized a man last week at the lake who said he was tuned in from the moment we sang Livin' On A Prayer (sung during our prayer series, and it was awesome) 5. Was told by a man that our church is to strict when it comes to holiness and purity, so he needed to find a new church that his lifestyle could fit in with 6. Was told that a man in our church was approached by someone and encouraged to leave
Read more