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What To Do First to Make a Profit

The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat  ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're  not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director.  Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year.  God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
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The thing that made my day today...


I came into the office today very tired and honestly not feeling so well. The issues with my tooth getting fixed have really bothered me physically. (I have a temporary crown right now - will get the permanent one March 14th. I believed maybe I was in need of a root canal before he puts the permanent one on...just hoping not and crossing my fingers.) However what I decided to do was take the rest of the bottle of antibiotics the dentist gave me previously just to see if it would work. Lo and behold, with every dose I take it's getting better! No, not pain free yet but it's 100% better than it was. I'm inclined to believe it was just a really nasty infection. I'm hoping when I finish this bottle my pain will be gone. So anyway, this morning I took my customary 2 antibiotics and went on to the office...

I made myself a cup of tea as soon as I got there and decided to catch up on the bazillion work e-mails that have been calling my name to answer before I delved into my other work. I saw that the Assemblies of God women in ministry "Side by Side" Newsletter was in my inbox. This is for pastor's wives and women in ministry. I always enjoy it. Usually it's featuring somebody like Darlene Betzer (one of my heroes - I love that woman!) or Peggy Musgrove or someone equally as motivating. I thought, "yippee! I'm going to start my day by reading this and get a boost of inspiration...I wonder who they are featuring today?"

I was looking for something fresh, something new to invigorate me (and yes, I had already done my devotions that morning...no tsk tsk from any of you, please... ha ha!) but I do have to say when I opened up the newsletter it was all old hat to me. Nothing new. Nothing fresh. I could have told you everything that was said before I opened the thing up because...I wrote it! (LOL)

Yep, I was the featured writer today and I didn't know it was going to be me. They had asked me years ago about this article I wrote on leadership (it was also in the AG's Enrichment), and sometimes they purchase articles but use them years later. This was the case with this one. As you can see by the article if you read it, it says we've been in ministry 17 years, but we have been in ministry 20 years. I guess I had submitted this 3 years ago and it's been floating around their office just waiting.

Well today it made my day to open the newsletter and see my words there. :-) I think every writer gets a great blessing and feeling of accomplishment to see their words in print. It's like, "hey, somebody besides me, my husband and my best friends think this is worthwhile stuff..." I got a kick out of it and went out into the outer office and told my colleagues at the church..."hey, open up your email and see who's on AG WM's news today!"

This is cool. My day consists of something besides a hurting tooth now. Ain't God good? I just wanted to share this with you, my friends. It made me smile and I know my true friends are smiling with me. :-) (Our successes are one another's successes in a covenant friendship.)

You can read the newsletter yourself by clicking here.

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PD,
Congratulations on having your work posted in the newsletter. You are an awesome writer and I know it must be rewarding to see your work published. Keep up the good work!
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