Way 2 Liv

Had a great customer service experience this weekend.  Absolutely fantastic.  Attentive, efficient and very professional.  Made my day.  Especially since earlier in the day our family experienced horrible, terrible, very bad service.  Worse, when I finally had had enough, this person refused to accept any responsibility for it at all.  Drives me crazy.  Fortunately, the supervisor was a little (not a lot) more attentive.

Thanks Robert for restoring my faith that there are people out there who listen.

Robin had a birthday this weekend.  She turned …. yeah like I’m going to post that.  She reads this thing. We had a lot of fun on her day and I believe she enjoyed it.  Late Saturday afternoon, we came back home and as Robin and I were getting ready so that we could go to NorthwayChurch.Malta, Katie and Joshua got the party ready.  Katie had been working Mom for the past two months finding out what she wanted for her birthday.  Way to go, Kate!  Josh helped by making a card for Mommy.  A special two page card.  As an added bonus, Josh put his prized paper airplane in the card as a gift.  Well Rob loved her gifts but you can guess which one was her FAVORITE.  Katie?!  Why didn’t we think of giving mom a paper airplane???

Happy birthday, babe.  Hope this year is your best yet!

I’m blessed with two children.  One’s nearly 15 and the other is 5.  Very different kids but both are great.  You can see the picture of my beautiful little girl (who’s not so little anymore) on this site but I want to talk about Joshua for a minute.

Over the last couple of weeks, he’s really been putting on the charm.  Get this, I came downstairs the other day and Josh surprised me by making my lunch for me.  How cute is that?  He was so proud of himself.  And a couple of days ago, Robin made a comment to a friend that in just a few minutes she would be alone.  Josh heard his mom and told her “Mommy, I’ll always be with you.”  Rob told me that her heart just melted.  My son is definitely a charmer…. but he’s also an imp.  I’m just waiting to see if he’s setting us up.

They say boring people talk about the weather but Wow!  The weather the past 10-12 days has really gone a long way to erasing the memories of February and March.  I mean who can complain about the sunshine, blue skies, moderate temps, and no bugs?  Unbelievable….. and we had it for Spring Break to boot.  

It’s weather like this that reminds me of why we put up with four months of cold.  Thank you, God.

A beautiful, young lady said the words “I do” when the Rev. Tom Nafziger asked her if she wanted to be my bride.  22 years she has been by my side, through thick and thin, unbelievable joy and unimaginable sadness.  She has supported me in every decision I’ve ever made.  She shows me in so many, many ways how much she loves me and I have been truly blessed to have her in my life.  Not only is she a great wife but she’s an awesome mom to Katie and Josh. I remember like yesterday, a moment over six years ago, sometime after I had delivered the news that I was being transferred to …….upstate New York.  Not exactly my wife’s idea of a dream come true (she’s spent much of her life in Florida) but she gave me a card before I headed out and in that card was a note telling me how much she loved me, how proud she was of me, and that she would follow me no matter where I went.  Robin, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!  You’ve always been there for me and you inspire me to be better today than I was yesterday.  I love you, lady.

This Easter weekend was off the chain.  At NorthwayChurch we had 10 services, including our grand opening at our third location.  Over 3,000 people heard about God’s desire for us to have life and not just any life but an abundant life.  Pastor Buddy kicked off our “I love the 80s!” series and as usual did a fantastic job.  Once again:  PHENOMENAL!Want to brag on the NorthwayChurch.Clifton Park team a little.  We had three services this weekend with nearly 1,000 people coming through our doors.  On Friday our neighbor, Northern Lights, was hosting a sold-out concert that was to start soon after our Good Friday service was finished.  Over 100 people were standing in line waiting for Northern Lights to open their doors and baby, it was cold outside.  Dozens of people that were in line asked to use our restrooms and we were happy to accommodate.  That was not enough for our team, though, as several of our VIPs (NC-CPs volunteers) made coffee and took it out and served those individuals standing in line waiting for their concert and at the same time inviting them to come to NorthwayChurch on Easter Sunday.  I can’t tell you how proud I was/am of our team.  We’ll never know how many people were touched by that gesture.  Way to go team.  Way to shine Jesus!Other awesome moments from this weekend:  The worship team was absolutely fantastic…….. and at all three services Great, great job guys.  You’re awesome!  Our production team did great with the graphics for our new series.  Kidzway rocked.  Prepared as always and that was with sending several volunteers down to NorthwayChurch.Colonie for our third location’s Grand Opening.  Awesome team.  Awesome results.So many members of our host team came extra special early at each service to make certain everything was ready to go. We rearranged the chairs for each service with the host team and several other volunteers doing an awesome job, setting up the chairs and tearing them down.   No griping, no complaining:  Just serving God and creating a welcome atmosphere for our guests.  Fantastic.Saw multiple instances of regular attenders going out of their way to help guests find their way around.  Not just on the host team either.  Way to go! Everyone stepped up this weekend and it showed.  I am proud of our team and very proud to serve alongside of them.Thank you, God! 

This past Sunday was incredible at NorthwayChurch.Clifton Park.  We had nearly 600 at both services.  Over 50 people raise their hands showing that they had accepted Christ and dozens of people came up front asking for prayer.  Awesome, awesome day.

Hard to believe that just over a year ago NC.CP didn’t even exist.  Now hundreds of lives are being changed for eternity.  I am so blessed to be part of this.

Like millions of other people, I resolved to lose weight at the first of the year. Like millions of other people, I didn’t do much to actually accomplish this goal………… at first. By mid-January I got off my bum and got started. I’ve focused on eating what I want but just smaller portions, not eating after dinner, AND drinking water. Actually drinking lots of water. Actually drowning myself in water.Today, I got on the scales (which I’m not doing daily) and was thrilled to see that I’ve lost 30 lbs. Hallelujah! Got a long ways to go but I’m On my way!

Been wanting to set up a blog for a while now.  No idea how often I’ll do post but at least now I have a place where I can share some thoughts with others who might want to hear what I have to say.