RP's Stuff and Things...

The spot for my online journal entries. Be forwarned that I am a Christian and am the founder of the Christian Paintball Players Association, and I may have to rant now and again. Please keep in mind, though that these are my personal thoughts and opinions, and do not represent "Christianity", The COGOP denomination which I am a member, my local church, or the CPPA.

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Friday, October 06, 2006

time, another time and half a time...

When I decide to write in my blog, it is usually related to two of my favorite topics; my wife and family, or church. Well, three - sometimes paintball/CPPA. :) In any case, I just wanted to say that since I know that my wife lurks; once again I want to publicly announce my love for her. Mary, I love you. I am very glad that I got "Mary'ed". :)

The CPPA is comming along nicely, the National board is working out what to do with having a National Gathering, since the place we used for the last few years is now no longer available. we have nearly 4,000 members, and from many countries. Most recently from South Africa.

I am continuing to minister in my local church at City Life Worship Center (http://www.citylifeworshipcenter.org). I will continue to do whatever I can in serving the congregation and pastor to the best of the abilities that God has given me. I recently added another computer. this one is for the message duplicaiton ministry. we had a laptop that was used, but it was so slow that it finaly was just never used and orders began to pile up. The new computer is a desktop, and remains at church, so MyLisa has to go to church to do the work. I think it is helping to make things go more smoothly there.

The media ministry just acquired another CD burner for teh audio/PA setup. the previous one used CDDA cdr's and was not very consistant unless the more expensive brand AudioCD's were purchased. Of course that got to be expensive. so the more expensive recorder was purchased, but it can use the really inexpensive bulk, generic CD-r's! woohoo!! We also stopped recording to cassette finally.

I discovered something else I could do at church while things settle and continue as far as my being set forth in teh COGOP. I knew about it previously, but didn't know that it was actually being done anymore. We had our Regional Ministers conference the other week, and there were flyers about how to get a "teacher's certificate". When I got one, I discovered that except for reading a particular book, I could submit an application to be a certified teacher. okay, so it's not a "real" teacher's cert for schools, it is a COGOP standard, and with my degrees, was a no brainer as far as doing what I can, while waiting on God for what I can't.