A Stone's Throw

Mark Dinwiddie has been sending us Multisite/Missions Nuggets of Truth each week for a couple of months now and I am starting a new category of them so you can talk about them and comment.

We have really been talking about that dirty word for perfectionists, DELEGATE.  Enjoy.

You have two choices in your work.  When something has been assigned to you, you can either do it yourself or get someone else to do it.  Your ability to get someone else to do it, to delegate it effectively    —more than anything else— is going to determine your career track, your position and rate of promotion, your pay, your status, prestige, and success in management.  (The Delights of Delegation)
“I owe whatever success I have attained, by and large, to my ability to surround myself with people who are smarter than I am” Andrew Carnegie

I once had one of my dad’s best friends, “work himself out of a job.”  He had worked for this company back before he retired and hired on with another company doing consulting.  Basically, he delegated all of the work to be done by the company employees that he was no longer needed–and he could go back to traveling in his retirement!

Who do you know that is a good delegator?  What makes them good at it?  What prevents you from delegating the way you ought?

We have had a crazy busy and productive weekend so far!  Tucker and Jenny went to Springfield on Friday so Jenny could do an inservice training for the Elementary music teachers in Springfield Public Schools–she’s so stinking talented and smart it’s pretty amazing she hangs out with a schmuck like me!! While they were gone, I took the opportunity to fix the brakes on my car that were about 3 weeks overdue and the rotors showed!  Thanks to my friend Devin Bobbett for helping me change my first set of brakes probably about 7 years ago.  I have always tried to repair them since then after I found out how “easy” it is.  There is always something that goes wrong when I try to do anything it seems.  This time, I stripped out some screws and had to go get some screw extrators from the store to finally get the brakes repaired.  Of course, I had to put the old brakes back on, go to O’Reilly’s and then come back and finish them.  I finally got them fixed at about midnight last night. Henry (our new puggle) and I went to pick up Taylor after school and decided to go to the pet store to get some stuff for the dog.  The pet store has another puggle for sale and the girl was really pushing hard for us to get another to keep Henry company.  Funny thing happens–Henry poops right in the store–while Taylor is supposed to be watching him on the leash!  I told the girl, “see I’ve got one that poops all over the place, I don’t need another!” Jenny and Tucker got home and we went to eat at the Ranch House.  We walked in and saw our good friend Kent Doyle and the Ozark High School varsity girls softball team that was in a tournament here in Carthage.  It was awesome getting to hang out with him for a bit.  Sweet people!  Taylor got to talk to Kaleb on the phone and Morgan got to talk to Jenny.  Pretty cool deal for everyone. Had our first CONVERGE this morning.  It went pretty well.  The next CONVERGE will be in January.  I am really excited about what God is going to do this fall through Forest Park Carthage! Went to Crosswalk tonight to hear John’s message “Dirty Jerseys.”  We are starting a spiritual growth campaign tomorrow called Generations.  It was an awesome message and I am really excited to see the response from our people tomorrow morning.  We have the potential to really reach a TON of people for Christ in the next decade or so through this campaign. The key verse is, “Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.” Psalm 102:18.  Stratton, McBride and I went out on Thursday and shot some videos for our children’s ministry classes.  It was a lot of fun!  The best part is related to this verse. . . we have an opportunity in this campaign to reach people of the future generations by our faithfulness to get involved with God in this generation!  I am excited that we are helping Taylor and Tucker’s generation to have a great facility here in Carthage.  My hope and prayer is that they will in turn, because of our example, build His Church for their future generations!  I can’t wait to see what God is going to do through this campaign!  Fasten your seatbelts.

Here are the pictures I said would be awesome if we had any!  I absolutely love what God is doing through this concept of multisite!  We had 366 people and the 2nd service was PACKED!!  That is the highest attendance we have had since the launch or Easter 2008–on a non holiday weekend!!

Enjoy from Stratton’s iPhone . . .