Recap!
Let me take a few minutes to recap the past few days and getting ready for the next few days, weeks, months. Part of the reason that I started to blog was for me to journal what happens in the journey that we started some 18 months ago so here we go… The Cockrell Tribe went off to Allegany State Park down in Northern PA this past weekend and what a great time we had! It was beautiful – we stayed in a very cool log cabin...
Great Friday!
This week’s weather has been FABULOUS here in Buffalo! We went to the Drive-In last night with the kidos and watched Star Wars the new animated movie – decent movie but the night was spectacular – at one point Canon looks up and says dad, all the stars our out tonight! I said yep – look at’em all! It has been a fast summer can’t believe that it is quickly drawing to an end – Labor day is...
Today was THE PERFECT DAY!
Wow what a day it was in Buffalo – it was the perfect day I was over at St Florian for a little bit today and got to meet one of the local business owners – The GlassMan – always cool to get a little more history about the area. Speaking of learning – yesterday Nick and I did a quick video for Sunday at ST Florian and as we were leaving I swung by to say hi to Frida a long time resident and super nice lady that...
Wild Goose Chase
I was having a hard time getting to sleep tonight so I grabbed the new book from Mark Batterson called Wild Goose Chase. Mark is the pastor at National Community Church in Washington DC. Mark has had a huge impact on me and on us at Elmwood. It was through a conversation I had with Mark that gave me the idea and the contact person to pursue the launching of Elmwood at the Regal Theater. We have visited him and the NCC...
Sunday Night Review 08
What a great weekend we have had! We had over 40 leaders meeting together at our first GroupLife Leadership Retreat and it was really good! John Stickle who was with us today downloaded some great principles that we all benefited from and I think will really help us advance our GroupLife Ministry in the year to come. So proud of the team from Craig and Jen Jackson who volunteer their time to organize and champion GroupLife but...