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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...

Please pray for us!!

It's unbelievable!!! We've searched everywhere! Maddie and I woke up to a stark reality yesterday. By the afternoon we realized the cold, hard truth. Daddy and Mommy were gone.  This reality was met with shock and disbelief.  We are trying to get our bearings.  I am trying to show leadership and take charge of this situation but it's not easy.   I try to get through to Maddie but she can't hear me anyway.  (She's deaf.  Remember?) I just want to bury my head under the covers and try not to think about what's happening... Last night I just dreamed of them walking in the door this morning and setting our world right side up again.   I'm desperately in need of a breakthrough, friends. At least Maddie and I have each other to lean on even though she can't hear me.   It's just important right now that we be near each other. Even Kayte feels sorry for us that we're without them this week... Last night I was so discouraged she anointed m...

I get so excited about the Word, I can hardly sleep...

Some people read the Bible and it makes them want to sleep...me....not so much.  The more of it that I read, the more excited I get!!!   I also  was never take for granted the honor of speaking into people's lives. Very late last night (or should I say early this morning) I was in the Word, finishing up my final teaching for this weekend's women's retreat.  I don't leave until Thursday, and quite frankly yesterday was VERY late in the game for me to be wrapping up a final message.  (Normally it would be done WAY before that.)  But I've been struggling with this particular one and finally got a breakthrough on it yesterday.  Now it's in the "pray through it" stage where I go through the message time and again just praying through it.  What greater blessing is there than to share God's Word with people and have a FRONT ROW SEAT to lives being changed?  Favorite. Thing. Ever. Seeing lives turned upside down for the glory of God never get...

Happy Thanksgiving

Maxie says, "O my!  It's Thanksgiving!" Kayte and Max say, "share the love this Thanksgiving!" Maddie's stands up and says, "mmmm...I smell me some turkey..." We are very grateful for all the Lord's blessings in our house and wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I love today for so many reasons...it's not just the food. I love what it means, first of all. Love the fact that we are focused on gratefulness for all that we have. Is life perfect? No, that's not the point. The point is focusing on what we DO have rather than what we don't have. Focusing on what we CAN do rather than what we CAN'T do. Focused on what God IS doing, not what we perceive Him as not doing. Mike Murdock once said, "the reason most people fail is broken focus." Is your focus broken? Get your focus on Thanksgiving and true gratefulness it won't be broken any more. We are so blessed, and that's not a clich...

Update on rescued dogs...

Happy endings are good.  :) Gayle took Molly Brown (little dachshund we rescued on Wednesday) to the vet yesterday and her tumor as removed.  Thankfully it was benign.  She is healing up and will soon be good as new!  The dog is adjusting well although their cat doesn't care for the dog so Gayle slept with the dog out in the trailer last night. In case you're just catching up here, we have the Jack Russell (who some believe may also be part rat terrier) at our house and Dustin has claimed her and named her Kayte.  She's doing just great all except for the fact that she doesn't get along with Max and Maddie.  They would have no issues with her (I think they would love to play) but she's very threatened by them and comes unglued when they are around and gets very mean.  Right now it's kind of stressful as we have to keep them gated and separated at all times so they don't kill each other.  Kayte becomes very aggressive and M & M defend thems...

Birthday surprise...

What an eventful day  yesterday.  I bike in the mornings on Wednesday because we have church that evening and if I don't go in the morning, I wouldn't be able to go.  When I was coming home in from my ride yesterday morning I looked down and noticed a little dog had followed me right on  into the living room!  I hadn't even heard her because I had my earphones on.  She was a little black and white Jack Russell.  Before I could even bend down to pet her, lo and behold there was ANOTHER dog -- this time a brown miniature dachshund!  Where in the world did they come from?  We had no idea, but we went out and started talking to neighbors and discovered they had apparently been wandering around the neighborhood together for 3 days!  They were panting...and so thirsty.  The dachshund also had a huge (tennis ball size) lump on her neck.  I noticed they were scratching a bit so after feeding and giving them water, I told Dustin to help...