Insert music from "Flight of the Bumble Bee".
Our church move was bumped up a month. Our final day at Otter Creek is February 5th. This all happened while I was gone.
(more "Flight of the Bumble Bee")
The West Coast ZOE Conference happens in the middle of all of that the weekend of January 20th.
(music swells)
What Phil referred to...the lost item...I lost the digital camera with all--ALL of Ella's birthday pictures and ALL of our Disney World pictures. It's somewhere clanking around on a Southwest airplane. Please, please, please pray we get it back. I literally burst into tears at the airport when we returned--partly from exhaustion, but mostly from sheer frustration over losing those precious recorded memories. Thankfully, our friends traveling with us took some pictures and we still have our Disney Photo pass.
I am deep into planning for the "Closing Season" at this building. Any of you done that before? Any ideas? We've got a lot of creative people working on it but I always love hearing what you guys think.
More blogging later.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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Sorry to hear about your camera. I hope SW is as good about tracking lost items as Disney is. I think I would have been in tears as well. Luckily, the only thing I lost on our last trip was a jacket... and I lost it in one of the 3 different airports we schlepped around in on our way home.
See you in Fresno!
We lost one of our digital cameras before too. Ours was on a trip to Abilene, and we didn't even use it the whole time we were there! We think it must have fallen out of a bag in the airport or something. So frustrating! (I say "one of" our cameras, because we've broken at least 2 others! We're hard on our cameras!)
Good luck!
Just don't forget the memories that have been made at the building you are leaving. Honor those memories...the times that as a body you truly felt the Spirit moving, times you wept, times you laughed, survival, baptisms, conflict, the moments that you pulled together as a family and made a difference in your community...I could go on. Use pictures from all those times....old Sunday school pictures, old pictures of women in the kitchen(with aprons on), potluck pictures, picnics, families, VBS, doorknocking, bus ministry, missions, and then move into the present... Just some thoughts. Otter Creek has a rich history of faithfulness...use that to move into the future. Use lots of visuals and lots of music. Let people who grew up at Otter Creek share some memories with their family...you will be surprised at the great stuff they will have stored in their hearts. Let some children tell you what they love about this old building...they are so honest and sometimes say the most profound things. I know that whatever you do God will keep working.
Make a all out request for pictures from church family members of events through the years. Put it in a slide show. Go back as far as anyone has pictures. Give someone the hard task of editing the pictures because you will probably get way more than you expect to get. Makes me cry to think about doing that at my own church and we've only been together for 11 years.
Crazy timing. Yesterday Lisa confirmed that, yes, she HAD actually run over her purse last week. She wasn't sure until she took her camera out and found that it was fairly crunched. She cried too, but was at least able to extricate the memory card.
I know you've got a LOT going on, but at least know that we'll feed you right when you get to Fresno. Plus, we're praying for you specifically every day. Love you, bro...look forward to seeing you.
Let's get ready to rock and roll on this move. It's going to be crazy, but it definitely won't be uninteresting.
My church in Lubbock did a time line with photos from the years.
They left sharpies for members to identify who was who and themselves. It was a lot of fun.
I agree with Julie, about the pictures. Another idea that we have done before is two months prior to leaving at every service we asked someone to to share their favorite memory of an event that happened in our old Building, and a hope that they had for the new one. It was a way to look back and forward at the same time.
BST
In just the last yr OC has blessed me in so many ways. I say lets look at it as not just a time of mourning but a time of celebration in what God has done, will do, and continues to do through His people.
I love the idea of people coming up with pics from as far back as possible and sharing some great moments/memories in this place.
Zac
Somehow Zoe Group doing that song from the Sound of Music, "Goodbye, Farewell, Aufwiedersehen, Good Night," strikes me as something I'd pay to see--Jeff, now following in Dwight's shoes with the worship team at Northside
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