Meetings are the pits

Seriously, meetings are the pits, you have to get together with people you don't know in order to discuss stuff you can really handle yourself. You have to spend time away from home, and you have to prepare for them! YUCK! Then there are gatherings. I enjoyed a gathering with some of God's peeps last night. People with a passion for sharing God's message. People who desire to see communication at COTC done with the utmost effective excellence. These folks are awesome! Different backgrounds. Different experiences. Different styles. Same God. It was wonderful to be able to look at some of the issues involving communication at COTC and not just scratch my head thinking, "How can we EVER do anything about this?" and instead hear probably solutions that to that person were EASY! God is SO good! We went long at this meeting -- also a problem with meetings. I'm not the best at keeping to the time. Last night was really difficult for that, because of the immensity of the material we had to cover. We still have TONS to look at, but this elephant will just have to be eaten in small bites. Right now, we've identified a couple of issues that really demand attention immediately and we have solution-finders in place now who are going to look at them and develop a plan this very week! We'll be making some changes -- nothing major, mainly tweaks to make communication at COTC become the "getting through" that God wants it to be. I'm so excited! So, meetings are the pits. Gatherings where you seek God and His vision for the passions He placed in people -- those are pretty darned incredible. Thanks, God, You Rock!