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16 Jun

I started to subtitle this post “ACS is the devil!”  Yeah, I don’t believe that for a SECOND!!!  ACS is AWESOME!!

Several years ago we started talking about using the ACS CheckPoint system, in which people check their children in to activities and events at our church.  The software logs their attendance and prints a badge for each child and a parents badge with a transaction number that matches each kid.  This number can be used to verify the identity of the parent when the child is picked up.  In a VBS that is running about 450 children and adults, and many of the kids are from the community and NOT regular EBC attenders, this is the SAFEST WAY I know of to protect children.  Having NO security makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER in this day and age.

I never thought anyone would ever complain or criticize the fact that we were taking measures for safety.  And last night I was proved wrong.  I won’t go into details, but let me just say that I do NOT believe Ebenezer is enabling the Mark of the Beast by using this system.  The numbers are randomly generated and we neither keep them nor upload them to any type of national database.  We are NOT taking the easy way out in this.  The system works when we do it right, and it makes me feel safer as a pastor that we do it.  Kudos to ACS for this system!!

And I will NOT apologize for taking steps to ensure the safety of children at Ebenezer.

13 Jun

Yes, you read it here first:  I love it!!  There are very few things I cannot do with it.  Most of all, I’ve been PREACHING FROM IT FOR SEVERAL WEEKS and very few people have NOTICED!!  And, I LOVE not having to shuffle papers while in the pulpit!

I know somewhere someone will hear about this and accuse me of trying to be state-of-the-art or “cool” or trying to hard to be modern, but they can just say and think whatever they wish:  It really does help me do a better job at what I do.

Hitting the wall

3 Jun

Drew and I have hit the wall.  He has gone to work with me every morning at 8am, repaired several computers, chased wiring problems, and helped me debug stuff.  We’ve configured some of the replacement equipment, labeled most of the lines coming into the main switch (something that needed to be done YEARS AGO) and we both are dead dawg tired.

In the mean time, I tried to write and do a funeral and am still working on my sermon.  (I’ve usually finished it by Wednesday afternoon … I am NO WHERE NEAR FINISHED)

And we have both hit the wall.  Stressed out and kind of sick of it.  We need a break!!  And the thought that my main vacation for the summer was last week just drags me DEEPER INTO THE FUNK.

I think we will hitchhike to Hawaii.  I’ve got some buddies from school over there who “need to see me!”  LOOKOUT, BRYSON AND GREG!

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