Just Kidding.  This is a picture of the 18th hole at Hill Top Course in Plymouth…it was my 6th stroke (par 4).  I had the priviledge of golfing with two volunteer leaders in Velocity.  We had a great time of fellowship, ending the evening with some delicious Burger Spot.

My small group decided on “The Bean” as a meeting place tonight.  It is a grass roots coffee shop located Downtown Plymouth.  We chose the back room for obvious reasons.  Who wants to have an in-depth discussion among complete strangers?  As irony would have it, sitting no further than 8 feet away from us was a slendor looking fellow making phone calls to people I’m sure he’s never met asking them if they would consider voting for Barack Obama.  The entire length of our small group I was summoning the courage to start up a conversation with him.  Unfortunately the moment passed.

I recently read an article in RELEVANT Magazine that tackled some of the tough issues of being a Christian in todays political world.  It is worth the read.

I spent an hour today talking with 3 students in the High School group here at NorthRidge Church about things that could make Velocity better.  They had some real concerns and some great ideas.  It was encouraging to know that there were other people besides us on staff that care and are thinking of ways to be more effective in ministry.

Now, completely unrelated to that, the video below makes me laugh every time I watch it.

My morning and early afternoon was consumed by our Small Group event called “Lead Small.”  It started with worship led by Josh Collesano.  Then it launched into vision, motivation, and training about small groups this year.  One of the highlights was having Greg Bowman from the Willow Creek Association come and speak to us.  His insight and leadership on groups was incredible.

I have been slowly learning all the programs that I have on my MacBook.  Below is a video I made in After Effects with some help from Josh Isenhardt.  It is the bumper for a series Velocity is in called “Beautiful Contrast.”

Today we worked all day in our conference room.  Both RustProof and Velocity had one major task to do:  put together the promo piece for our Fall Launch series.  To that end we labored over photoshop and came out with a great design.  Below is the front of our postcard being sent out.

The live Remedy Club Tour DVD is on sale tomorrow.  I went this evening and saw it in theaters, and it’s pretty stinkin’ good.

NorthRidge Church launched a Small Group campaign this weekend entitled “Go Small.”  With a church as large as NorthRidge, one has to wonder how anyone gets connected.  This is our attempt.  If you are interested in getting connected at NorthRidge, check out their “Get Small” event September 19.

(I haven’t found a way to “invert” photos with my Mac)

Today was the day we “cleaned up” our office to get it ready to be painted.  We moved all our cubes and storage units to the center of the room.  I’ll hopefull have a pic up soon.

On another note, the Olympics are underway!  It’s always great to see countries gather under one roof for some wholesome competition.  We won’t mention the 7 or so athletes that were sent home due to drug use.

Let’s hope the men’s basketball team can pull off some wins.  Maybe even bring home a medal.

There are probably more, but here are 5 things I love about Cedar Point:

1. The Raptor (of course – although “the maverick” is coming dangerously close to becoming my favorite ride)
2. The wide variety of people you encounter (did you see that guys hair?!)
3. The fact that only half of the staff speak English
4. Every ride is different (you never leave a ride saying, “that was just like…”)
5. It is home to one of the few Chick-Fil-A’s north of the Mason-Dixon line (need I say more?)

There you have it.  As long Sandusky, OH keeps those juicy chicken sandwiches around, you better believe I’ll keep going back!