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...
I want this blog to be a place where people at least occasionally learn something. Here's your lesson for the day. If you are going to go to a cabin in a remote location, traveling on steep and winding roads that may start to ice over, get groceries FIRST. We made the mistake of going to the cabin first to inventory what supplies the kitchen already had before going to the grocery store...and when we tried to leave to get groceries, we almost died slipping and sliding on a trecherous hill couldn't make it. Yep. We were trapped. This cabin is a wonderful place to be trapped, but we want something to eat while we're trapped. There was a little bit of snow and ice very steep and winding hills leading to the cabin. At first glance, this sprinkling of snow seems like no big deal, especially for a man who lived in Pittsburgh most of his life and navigated snowy roads. But there was also ice along with the snow and when w...