Check out this post from Gary Lamb, on “Thoughts Keeping Him Up”. It contains thoughts that are keeping him awake at night as they prepare to launch their first satellite campus. Here a few good ones.

• What is the bottom line cost we can launch campuses for without compromising our vision, style, and excellence?
• How quickly can I launch campuses?
• How important is the role of campus pastor?
• How do you duplicate the buzz and energy of our main campus?

Check out his post for more of his thoughts and questions about it.

Just wanted to let everyone know that my wife finally got her new blog launched the other day, thanks to a super special web designer, me. Anyway head over and check it out http://SpringLakeChristian.com

Ok so by now any of you who read are probably wondering what has happened the last month. I have stopped twittering, blogging, flickring, and all those other ‘ings that go along with the internet.

Well I took the last month to disconnect and spend time seeking God and spending time with my wonderful family. But I am back now and energized.

I am still seeking God’s direction on which way my life is headed and on some big decisions coming up, but I am ready to plug back into my online communities.

OK, so it has been a long time since I have blogged….

OK, a really long time. But here I go again. I have moved all my posts over from wordpress.com to my new blog site and i am ready to go. Anyway it’s not like I haven’t been blogging at all, Just not about personal stuff. I have been blogging for my business and my open source church project, though I have slacked on the later due to the business of the former.

Anyway I am back and dare I say it…better then ever.

So I forgot to add this book to my recap of reading the other day. here are a few quick hits that I took form this book:

• Everything a church does creates an Impression, good and bad. What Impression are you making?
• If you don’t have a plan for guests they will notice and they will have a plan, to not come back.
• Marketing materials are a first impression. From the Web site on down to every printed piece in your building
• The building itself can leave an impression. Is it clean? Dirty? Cluttered? Full? Empty?
• Plan. Plan some more. Then Plan again. Make sure you are thinking of all the ways guests are going to come and plan for them.
• Put yourself in their shoes.

If you want to see why I was reading this book, check out this First Impressions Manual I put together for my church.
All in all if you are trying to do a better job with your guests this is a great read and will get your brain thinking.

So I just got my free copy of Going All The Way by Craig Groeschel today. It is awesome that they are giving these away to people who will blog about it. As of today there were still 40 copies left so if you are interested in blogging about it head over to Swerve and ask for a copy of it.

Anyway I will blogg some more about it as I read it.