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Some problems I’m having…

I’ve been working in Harker Heights for about a month now and while this may upset some people here or there, here’s a short list of some things that bug me about the town
– On the city website (HarkerHeights.com you can click to get directions to Harker Heights, but first you have to search the webpage to find the city’s address. Boy that’s annoying.

Need Directions to Harker Heights? Click here. .Just type in your address then our address (see above) and your computer will do the rest.

– According to a random website, it is illegal to “disturb a church service by swearing.” Now, I’m not a big swearer, but that’s somewhat restricting isn’t it?
– According to the same site, “Drivers of city vehicles must respect all traffic rules just like the rest of us.” Isn’t that common knowledge? Did we really need to waste time writing a law about it.
– City council members must have a workshop every week they don’t have a meeting, to discuss what their next meeting will be about. Now I don’t think that’s required. It’s just been habit or what I’ve seen so far.
– It’s next door to Killeen.
– Everyone has to ask someone else or think about buying ads. Its never a yes or no. It’s let me ask or think about it.
– And well… that’s about it. That’s all I can come up with for now.

Imagine where you want to be

My mom said I need to update my blog, so here is my first entry for the day – at 3:07 p.m.
Churchmarketingsucks.com has a link to an interview with Brian Houston, senior pastor at Hillsong Church Australia.
Brian says some intersting things about imagining where you want to be and where you want to go.

Before our church had any influence really, I sat down one day and imagined the church that I would I’d love to pastor. So I called it The Church That I See. And in that I describe the church, I talk about its worship, I talk about its mission, I talk about its people. And I would have to say that at that time, our church didn’t look like that, but I read it now, and it sounds like I’ve just sat down, and in some ways, described what, what the church has become. Which to me is quite an amazing thing.
I think that my sole purpose in wanting the church to be influential, is I believe in the message and I believe in the church. And you sit back and you watch a church in a country just declining, and if we do nothing, I mean it’ll eventually decline into oblivion. And I just believe that we do have answers and that we can help people, and I want to make sure that the church is strong and positioned to do exactly what it’s called to do.

Where do you want to be? What kind of goals have you set or should you set?
At my immediate position, I want to see our paper running 24 pages a week (or 12 pages twice a week). With full color ads on the front and back page. I want to see quality customer service. On time billing and collections. A paper that people are proud to call their own.
How about you?