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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...

unabashed chick post

Prescheduled post : I wanted to do a few special things with the kids before I left for Africa. Savanna asked if we could get our nails done together yesterday morning before I left. She got a manicure and had her nails painted bright orange with designs. I'd take a photo now to show you, however she's asleep. lol For me, I like to get something unique as far as design when there's a special occasion in my life ~ holidays, a ministry trip, etc. Most times I just have a solid color with a small design on only my ring finger. (I usually get all my designs, repairs, etc. for free since I'm a very loyal customer, which is wonderful...) So Africa was in the "special" category and I asked Lisa for a design I've had before and really liked. Here it is ~ I just love it and wanted to share it with you... As I've mentioned before in my posts, I'm particular about my hands and taking good care of them. I want them to look and feel good as I pray with...

Today's the day!

This morning we leave for Africa!! I can't believe the day has finally come although I have been racing against the clock to get ready. Sue has as well. Some of you have asked me, "who is this Sue person who is going with you?" I take for granted that everyone knows and has been reading here forever...sorry. Sue is one of the key leaders in our church. She is our our core leadership team, women's leadership team, and is one of our Fusion small group leaders. However her main role is Aprile's Hope Ministries which is a support group for women dealing with domestic violence or significant loss, which falls under the umbrella of our women's ministries. Not to mention, she's one of my dearest friends. I did a blog post about her last year that you can find here . We will take three flights (one short one and two extremely long ones) and arr ive tomorrow night in Africa. I wanted to show you the giant plane (airbus) we are traveling on in case you have never...

Twas the night before Africa...

and all through the house... I've definitely been "stirring" with "visions of Africa" dancing in my head. (SMILE) I am so excited I could scream. But I won't because it would freak my family out since they are sitting here calmly listening to music or watching football. I've been doing things during the day today like laundry and last minute packing and picking up a few essentials I forgot yesterday...batteries for both cameras and stuff like that. Then tonight we had a family night since it was my last night here. Casey came and went with us and we went to the new mall - Shops at Wiregrass and ate at Moe's Southwestern Grill which is a family favorite. The new mall is beautiful and they had a lovely outdoor seating area where we ate and talked. Right now Dustin is putting two new CD's on my IPOD to take on the trip, and Larry has programmed some new ringtones into my new phone he got me (with unlimited texting - to talk with my family and Twitte...

A special gift from a reader...
thank you Nancy Seelow!

I've been wanting to thank someone for doing something real special for me and now's the time! A blog reader, Nancy Seelow from Williamsburg, Missouri sent me an amazing card in the mail last week. Nancy is a regular reader but is like many of you reading this right now who are "silent readers". You are among thos e who never comment here on the blog but nevertheless you are here everyday from San Francisco to Singapore. I have no idea why some of you keep reading but others of you tell me privately why you do and drop into my email box every once in a while and others of you actually into my regular mailbox, with a phone call, or in the case of two people -- in person! Last week I received this card from Nancy. I was blown away when I opened it. She obviously purchased this card from the store however she "remade" it very creatively to personalize it just for me. The front of the original card design said, "Go for it! Shout out loud!" but she made...

I'm going to miss home, as excited as I am to leave...

It was a great day at church and with my family. I am sorely going to miss home when I leave Wednesday for eleven days to go to Africa. Everyone knows how excited I am to go but it's always hard to leave as well. When I'm making a trip for ministry somewhere, I try to spend as much time with people as I can before I leave but it always runs out faster than I would like. This Tuesday the kids are off school so we will have some extra time together and Savanna has especially requested that she and I do something together so I've got that on the burner before I go. We had a super day at church and are just flowing with the "Freedom" theme that God is doing in the church right now. Larry and I decided that this month's sermon series would go along with what the spirit was already doing last month and so we are preaching, "Journey to Freedom" right now. All the songs were about freedom, and it was simply an all around positive day in the house. I had the ...

Soccer Momma

Action shot of Jordan kicking the ball...Savanna took this today at the first game Wesley Chapel High vs. Wiregrass High School . In the midst of getting ready for my departure to Africa, not to mention Sunday service and choir tomorrow, I had an 8-hour stint at the soccer field today for Jordan. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am a soccer mo m. :-) Jordan plays varsity soccer for Wesley Chapel High. We left the house this morning to go to Sun Lake High School in Land O Lakes and I took this picture of the sky... and by the time the last game was in progress it was like this... Savanna video taped most of the game and helped me to take pictures as well. Dustin and Casey were at the game... as well as Tom and Kirsti Garland. Jordan's team lost both games unfortunately (this was their first) but he personally did real good. We're proud of him win or lose. I took my work bag with me to work on stuff during the time Jordan's team was not playing. I didn't get a whole lot don...

News-less and loving it!

Okay blog buddies, I didn't post on here the past few days but a blurb, so indulge me while I give a little longer update today... Well my friends, it's Fun Friday and I am news-less! I have not been watching the news, nor reading the paper, and I immediately click the exit box on the news screen when it comes up on my computer. I've been on a fast from the TV and news media for 3 days now. It's been glorious. You should try it sometime. I get on the computer to correspond and answer my mountain of email (sorry if I haven't gotten to yours yet), blog and research and write messages. Other than that, I'm totally media-free. Yippee! Most of my friends know, I love Fox News. My hubby says I'm "addicted". Well I guess I'm proving him wrong right now that I can snap the TV off cold turkey if I want to. Everyone has their favorites I'm sure, but Fox is my favorite. I'm probably the only woman whose dream would be to have Bill O'Reilly, Ne...