My Worship Revolution

By far, my biggest weakness: Time Management.  Thus I still have a to do list a mile long and I’m blogging.  That being said, I have come a LONG way in the past couple of years.

I recognize, though, that it is something I have to work at and probably always will.  Especially when it comes to the minutia.  I just don’t seem to be naturally wired for all the details.  I wanna dream, create, think down the road.  Not schedule, budget, and do paperwork.  But the fact is it all needs to get done.

That being the case, I’m always looking for tools to help me improve in this area.  There are a few books on my list that I haven’t quite grabbed yet.  Granted, I’m OK with the idea that it will never be a great strength for me, but I have to get better at it to accomplish the things I want to over time.

Today I found a free e-book via a blog by Jonny Baker that I usually pass over fairly quickly in my reader.  The book is by Mark McGuiness and is called Time Management for Creative People.  I’ll let you know how it is as I check it out.  But it is free, so go get yourself a copy too.

Anyone else out there have similar issues?

Several weeks ago, Katie Garcia took some shots of our staff to use on the new website going up.  The site is up now, but the pics aren’t up quite yet.

Here’s a few of the shots she got down at Harvey West Park:

And of course, here’s a couple I’m bettin you won’t see showin up on the website!

Man…we are freaks!  But we have more fun that way!
Thanks for the great shots Katie!!

Christmas is coming.  you probably need cards.  Or maybe giving some really cool artistic cards would make a great gift.

So I take this opportunity to pimp a friends card company.  Artisan Earthworks – photo cards.  A company started by my friend Boomer Reiff up in Oregon.  I think all the photography is shot by his dad.

Go check out their site.  They got some pretty cool stuff.
That’s all.

We’re one week away from our Caroling on the Wharf event.  And I have a lot to do to get ready.

Which also means it’s time to give it a go with a second mailing.  We seemed to get a pretty good response from the first one, so here we go again.  The first one we did was for Harvest Festival and I shared our mailer piece here.

This time, my brother-in-law, Joel, worked up the mailer for us.  Same one that took the great pictures a few weeks ago.  I gave him an idea what we were going for and he worked this up in about an hour or so.  Check it out:

I was stoked with and look forward to getting out to the community.  Joel has his own company, two of twelve art design, 2//12,  he’s been using to do some graphic design work.  Here’s his portfolio.  You need him.  Go hire him.

Thanks Joel!

Now I’ll spend a lot of time this week getting the rest of this event together so the outcome is as good as the print piece!

Just for fun.

To see the whole "song and dance" go here.
Ed’s got some serious moves!

Have a great Monday!

That was the name of a worship album put out at Revolution for the 3 year birthday.
It was the number of days in 3 years, including a leap year.
That’s not what this post is about.

That’s the number of emails in my inbox.
I have this issue with deleting emails, even when I’ve responded.  I’m like an email packrat I guess.
But I think I should just keep em stored in my trash file at the very least.
So my new goal will be to get it down to ZERO by 2008.

Do you think it can be done?

Yesterday, after our turkey dinner (yes, we had our "Thanksgiving meal" on Friday) we all cruised down to "Blue Ball Park" with the family and the kids.

Rachel’s brother, Joel, I’ve mentioned before as a great photographer and graphic designer.  He had is camera with him and we ended up doin a quick impromptu photo shoot with our family.  Check out his handiwork.  These are some of my faves.

Thanks Joel!!

How we spent out Thanksgiving.

First, meet out at Mission Hills Middle School for a game of tackle football.
A good reminder that I’m old and out of shape.
My body still hurts.

Then to the church.

For the past 25 years our church has done an annual community dinner.  A free meal for the homeless and needy in the community. 
It started at 10 and there were already plenty of people in the parking lot waiting when I showed up around 9:45.  I don’t think we kept count, but we fed a LOT of people today.

I got to drive our 15 passenger van around Pac Ave and around the beach flats picking up and dropping off any homeless who wanted a free meal.  I wasn’t
really that excited to do it.  It was one of the coolest things I’ve been able to do.  Getting to talk to these people during the ride.  Getting to learn their names.  The homeless are a huge percentage of our community here in Santa Cruz.
A good reminder to care for them as people more than just one day a year.

The rest of the day has been chilling with both our families at the house.  Rachel’s other brother and his fiance show up late tonight, so we’re doing the typical Thanksgiving as a family tomorrow

How was your Thanksgiving?

4 Marchessaults
plus
4 Beukelmans
plus
3 Farmers
plus
1 Giardinelli
plus a dog
divided by
1 small 2 bedroom house
and a 1975 motor home
equals
my Thanksgiving weekend…
and a lot of chaos.

But it says a lot about our families that Rachel and I are both excited to have both our in-laws together at our home.
We’re thankful for great family!

Hope your having a great Thanksgiving weekend!

OK, I think I’ve had a grand total of like 1 other political post here in the history of this blog.  It’s something that I can get opinionated about, but I learned several years back that it wasn’t worth arguing about.  If I’m gonna ruffle feathers, I’d rather do it with a topic that can really change lives.  You know, like Jesus.

However, this one was just too good to pass up.  And as a result of the video embedded below – that I just had to share – you are going to get a rare peek into the Bobby’s head on this blog regarding his political opinions.

As of now, I’ve been completely disappointed with the prospects for the upcoming presidential race.

Hillary – not a chance.  Enough said.
Obama – like him as a person.  Seem authentic, passionate, etc.  Unfortunately, I just can’t back his politics.
Rudy – he’s basically a conservative democrat running as a republican.  Don’t know that I see a whole lot of difference between him and the "opposition."

Now, disclaimer time.  Fact is, I haven’t done my homework and don’t know enough about the candidates.  That is just what I perceive from those candidates and I’m not excited.  However, I know there are some others that I don’t know much about that I’d like to learn about.

The one I’ve heard tossed around that I’ve been most interested to hear more from is Mike Huckabee.
Mike has a killer "ad agency."
I don’t think I need to learn anymore.
This video may secure my vote!
Check it out below: