It’s often fun for me to look and see which type of ministries my gifts work best in. Keokuk is a fun place to explore those as well. My natural tendency is to work in the background. I’ll work with technology, shoot photography, and administrate events behind the scenes. Rarely do I have to be up front. The fun thing is that I don’t have a problem leading up front, it’s just not my first choice.
Church camp is really an area where I have to be up front. It takes the enthusiastic (and sometimes crazy) counselor to set the tone for the rest of the group. Vacation Bible School was an area where I did both the foreground and background leading.
This weekend is already starting to be another combination of the two. Yesterday, Cathie got back from vacation and we realized that she was scheduled to preach at the Methodist church on Saturday. Occasionally she’ll fill in and preach there at the Saturday night contemporary service. FCC in Keokuk (where I work) hasn’t had any open Sundays for me to preach this summer, so Cathie and I decided that the Methodist worship would be a good chance. I still haven’t started my sermon yet, but that’s what I’m going to do this afternoon and tonight (with luck). I also need to work on the powerpoint for Sunday’s worship service (background), the pastoral prayer and offertory sentences (foreground) and the high school sunday school prep (foreground). My Saturday morning’s going to be pretty busy; I can already tell.
Part of the busyness later this weekend is due to me taking some time to design a sweet powerpoint background this morning. I ended up putting in a Disciples chalice, as well as the shapes for the windows in the back of FCC Keokuk’s new doors at the back of the sanctuary. When I got to looking at them I decided that they looked like arms, so I put a dove in there too. I’m pretty proud of it, if you couldn’t tell. The picture above links to the full-sized version for the powerpoint background. If anyone needs a bigger size, let me know — it’s an easy thing to do and then e-mail.