Church at Redeemer. The Workshop Begins
Woke up at about 7 and didn't quite know what to do. Eventually I decided not to run, showered and am now catching up on stuff before I head off to church at Redeemer.
I was out by 8 or so, stopped and got Starbucks then took the 1 down to 66th and then a three block walk to the cultural society where Reedemer has its 9:15 service.
I sat up front and they had an amazing brass quartet doing all the music. The prelude alone was worth coming to hear.
The sermon was on the calling of David from First Samuel, delivered by Scott Sauls, who appears to be one of the younger associate pastors. It was a blessed message and as usual I felt very privileged to be there. I went down stairs and bought Tim Keller's new book the Prodigal God for $10 and I started reading it at breakfast.
From there I wasn't completely sure what I was going to do, but I wound up walking to Something good To Eat which was on Amsterdam and 83rd. n the way there I passed Sarabeth's. It is very interesting to see what restaurants have any buzz.
I didn't have to wait long and I sat at the window bar and had a Lumberjack breakfast, two pancakes, two strips of bacon (which I had to send back because it was barely cooked) and scrambled eggs. I also had more coffee and it all came to about $17.
I thought about taking the bus back up Amsterdam but wound up walking the whole way. Also found the Popover Cafe which I had read about. It was definitely a beautiful Sunday morning to celebrate God and His goodness.
I chilled in the room until the three of us met at 2. Crystal came up to our room and we basically planned the whole week. It should be great working in the maestro groups in the afternoon. Tonight we planned to do our revamp "colors" entitled "We're all in the together," and it really is much improved. When I did it in South Dakota, it really seemed tired. So the changes are really good.
After that we went down and registered and then we pretty much just killed time until about 4:15 or so when we went over to Learner to check out our rooms. It turns out that we are not using the Party Space tonight. There was some People to People group in there.
The opening session started and five and believe it or not Ed filled the entire hour. Our yearbook opening was in the Broadway Room next door and we do have well under 50 kids. This really could be the end.
Crystal did "We're All in This Together," Pete did his theme session on finding and developing a concept and I had them fill out a questionnaire so we could set up our maestro groups tomorrow. We went right up until 8.
As usual we went over for food together at Havana Central at the West End. We were late getting served, but the food was good so it really didn't matter much.
Then it was back to Carman and Pete and I have been talking and got all the slides from slide fest...yippee!
I also got really nice emails from all the girls for Father's Day. I really appreciated it.
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