Great meeting time with the staff fellas today.

We worked through the following:
> Had a time of prayer and commitment to Christ.
> Walked through a typical gathering from driving in to driving out and graded each area.
> Talked through how to improve each of the areas we listed and gave assignments.
> Laid out more details for our fall conversation series.
> Discussions on how to raise up more servants to assume many of our current responsibilities.

We have follow up times next week to go deeper on the gathering improvements and raising up leaders.

We hung out at my folks for the first half of the day and it was a great place to hang and chat. (see my dad blog for his thoughts on that.)

Finally I want to confess that I feel like a failure in some of my fatherly duties. I realized that my almost five year old daughter can't swim without a floatation device and can't ride a bike without training wheels. I am not really training my daughter in things that are givens... Am I paranoid? She is a smart kid with a heart of gold, but I don't think to teach her those most basic things. Man. I am going to make a list with the things I need to teach the kids and start working on them. Don't worry, I won't make them dull... I think... Is it okay that I am behind the eight ball? (not magic 8 ball - then I'd need a freedom appointment.)

Just a bit of confession from a selfish dad who wants to be more conformed to Christ.

Willis is the Goldbond King!
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