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...
Tonight (Friday night) we went to the Greek Festival in St. Pete. We went with the Rivera's and Torres's. Everything was amazing. I love Greek culture - everything about it. I'm 50% Greek in case you would like to know that tidbit of info...
So, we ate dinner there and Candy ended up dancing with some ladies and I took a ton of pictures. We took our own little tour of the church where the festival was held and had fun shopping at the little stands, and carrying on conversations.
After we left the kids wanted some ice cream, as if we didn't already eat enough/. We did stop and guess who was there? The Ruiz's. Epi said, "Oh my word, I was just sitting here thinking about you guys and you drove up." It was a night of terrific fun, food, conversation and much laughter. Always a Celebration with the folks at Celebration Church.

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