My seven week sabbatical (plus some vacation time) began a little bit before six this morning. I went to the Central pool and swam a mile and a half then came back and had breakfast with the kids. After breakfast, we did a little cleaning and in a little while I'll begin working on some of my DMin papers. My goal is to finish at least a rough draft of my last paper today and begin editing.
A lot of people have asked what we're planning on doing on the sabatical so I thought I'd sketch at least a broad overview of our objectives:
Church Plant: Working on the church plant is the primary purpose of the sabbatical. I will be
doing so by visiting churches, vision casting, studying leadership development, laying out a four-year plan, and spending time daily just to brainstorm.
Personal Growth: I will be finishing some DMin work during this period as well. I'm going to try to knock this out within the first week. There are also quite a few books I'd like to read.
Family: I'm going to try to spend quite a bit of time with the family in the evenings especially. It will be nice to be able to not have a lot of things competing with our schedules. When we're in Texas, we plan on visiting lots of churches but also spending time with extended family. Whitney and I will take a vacation together and then run the White Rock Half Marathon in Dallas.
I'm not really a person who enjoys "relaxing," but I'll also try to decompress at least a little bit.
2 comments:
We're praying this will be a time of accomplishment (so you are not frustrated) :) and a time of renewal. Enjoy those wonderful evenings with your delightful family!
Dear Grandson,
How wonderful it is that you are going to take some time to "decompress". It will be time that your children and you and Whitney can make memories (and pictures) so that you can all look back with pleasure and say, "remember when..."
Gramps and I are looking forward to making a few of those memories with you all.
Love you,
Grammy and Gramps
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