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?

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 . . .

We had an awesome Sunday at Forest Park Carthage!  We had a record attendance of 366 (high attendance except for launch Sunday and Easter ‘08)!  Amazing!  We had an Anniversary Celebration BBQ after church and it was really cool to see so many people stay and hang out with one another.

We finished up the Mythbusters series today with what I think was one of the best messages of the entire series called “We are here by accident.”  John did an awesome job teaching us what an amazing God we serve and that there is no way that we are here by accident.  One quote he used today was from Albert Einstein

“The probablility of life originating from accidet is comparable to the probablility of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.”  Albert Einstein

Reminded me a ton of the the Indescribable and Alive series of talks by Louie Giglio (one of my all-time heroes!)

Huge props go out to my whole team making this day successful!  My staff and lay volunteers are awesome and do such a great job helping people connect with each other and to connect to the Savior!  Thank you so much–all of you!!

Here are some pictures of the BBQ after our awesome day celebrating what God has done in Carthage in just one short year.  (Man, I wish we would have gotten some pictures of the auditorium during services today.  That place was packed!  Three services??  May be having to come soon!  What an awesome problem to have!!)