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Window Cleaning Pictures

Here are some random photos from my past few days as a window cleaner:

I am up on the ledge above the second floor, here is a shot all the way down to the first level of the Augusta Mall where we are cleaning their windows. Did I mention that they surrounded the entire top of the mall with windows? Its going to be a long few months…but the money is good!!!

Cleaning on the ledge atop of Abercrombie and Fitch…I thought I was going to fall through their roof!

Eric swinging around the corner atop of Abercrombie

As you can see the rafters to the mall is at our heads…I am above the elevator which is directly behind my head…this is above the second floor.

Faith? This is all that holds me to the ledge, can anyone say Cliffhanger? I have not seen anyone that looks like Sylvester Stallone on our team…plus he dropped the chick in the movie.

The side of Terry…He is a real construction man!

Nick
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Christmas Money & Second Jobs

Last week I picked up a second job to help bring in some extra Christmas Money and to help pay off some credit card debt, its tough, but the money is good, so right now that is a good thing. The Augusta Mall is doing some major construction (adding stores and improving the ones that we already have), and my neighbor owns a Window Cleaning company, so he picked up the contract to clean all of the windows in the mall. They only do it once every 10 years, so as you can imagine they are extremely dirty!

Here is a glance at my schedule for this past weekend and for the upcoming regular schedule…

Thursday night I worked from 9:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.
Friday night I worked from 9:30 p.m. until 3:00 a.m.
Saturday night I worked from 9:30 p.m. until 3:00 a.m.
(of course when I get home I am wired from all the caffeine I have indulged in, so I get to sleep around 4:30 a.m.)

Now that I am in on the project I will be working a good bit more, so my daily schedule will look something like this:

6:30…okay more like 7:00 a.m. – I fall out of bed
8:30ish a.m. – 5:00 p.m. First Pres. (Regular Job)
5:30ish p.m. – Get home & Eat Dinner
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Spend time with the family and/or catch a brief nap
(Except Wednesday’s when I have student ministry)

So needless to say, I will be quite busy over the next couple of months and I am sure I will want to hibernate for the Winter when its all done…by the way I will be posting some photos of my new side career in the next day or so, its kind of awesome!

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Being True to Yourself

I am reading over the Purpose Driven Church book and came across one of the myths that Rick Warren tackles in Part One of the book (Seeing the Big Picture).
Rick Warren talks about the things that other churches cannot copy, here is the third thing Rick says you cannot copy, this spoke to me:

Third, you can’t be me. (No one in his right mind would want my weaknesses.) Only I can be me, and only you can be you. That’s the way God intended it. When you get to heaven, God is not going to say, “Why weren’t you more like Rick Warren (or Jerry Falwell or Bill Hybels or John MacArthur or anyone else)?” God is likely to say, “Why weren’t you more like you?”
God made you to be yourself. He wants to use your gifts, your passion, your natural abilities, your personality, and your experiences to impact your part of the world. All of us start out as originals. Unfortunately, many end up as carbon copies of someone else. You cannot grow a church trying to be someone else.

This spoke to me, because it is kind of my ministry in a nutshell. I have had the privilege of serving in various forms of ministry since I was 10 years old…however for 14 to 15 years after that I was influenced that my serving, my speaking/preaching, my methods and style had to mimic those who were in leadership over me. I was miserable until God showed me that being myself was more powerful that copying anyone. There is a Bible college and a couple of churches in our area that are full of young guys with an ambition and call to ministry, but many of them never get off the ground because they are too busy copying their hero and trying to be like him. I wonder what kind of impact those churches and that school would have in this country if those men decided to be themselves? Be yourself!

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Verse

Here is a great verse that spoke to me today:
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.“
Ecclesiastes 11:4 (LB)