Monday, April 23, 2007

Church Assessment means Blog Pause

I apologize for the pause in my blogging. When I'm travelling with the Riddle Group to do an assessment it is an all consuming venture. There is no room for extra brain activity.

To give you a glimpse into what we do: the main chunk of the schedule is over 3 days. I went in a day early this time to observe the 2 Saturday night services and 2 Sunday morning services along with accompanying youth programs. The main chunk was Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. During those 3 days Jonathan and I will interview 63 people one-to-one. (A min. of 30 minutes each) We'll participate or lead over 53 hours of conversation. Then on the 4th day we write our assessment with ActionPoints which give direction to the congregation to move on. 99% of the document (17 pages in this case) is completely original material unique to the church we are visiting.

All of this thinking and writing makes it difficult to blog during an assessment, so I appreciate your patience.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah whatever Dude. Cry me a river. I demand to be entertained. You better work a little harder next time.

I can only imagine... One conversation of yours leaves me with at least a couple days of thinking. I can only imagine if you've had that many people talk with you, what's going on (read "boiling) inside your noggin.

Glad to hear from you man. I do love readin your blogs. Later
Dave C

10:05 PM EDT  
Blogger mark said...

thanks for being such a loyal reader Dave!!!

11:16 PM EDT  

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