2 days later

I know its 2 days later but here is a recap of Sunday's song list and a few other tidbits. First off it was cool to have our buds from Columbus (Aub & Roy) there at church this weekend, wish we would have been able to have lunch afterwards but it didn't work out. Hope you guys come back again and hang out. Music was fun and wasn't that totally awesome all those kids that seemed to just keep coming and coming. We have a great future ahead of us. Youth was fun with a little dodgeball and hanging out with the dudes and dudettes. The only bad thing about Sunday was the NASCAR race, I'm tired of the same people winning. I remember when there was a time where there were 15 to 20 drivers who could win, now its much lower and man are most of the races boring. I know some of you have thought that all along, but working with a short track series I miss those races that hardly ever had a guy win by over 6 seconds.

Speaking of the short track stuff, the series I worked for are is in Nashville this weekend for the Adam Petty Memorial All American 400 at the Nashville Fairgrounds. I went one year and that was awesome. This year there are 45 cars entered with drivers from 16 states and 1 from Canada. That is going to be a great race.

Something I failed to mention last week was that Angel Silvers, Tammy and myself all went to the Christian Men's Ministries Friday to serve breakfast. Bad thing was they really didn't have any food so we ran to Micky D's and got them breakfast. I think they enjoyed it as it was pretty quiet in there for a bit while they all dug in. That was fun. The dude who was in charge was a pretty cool fellow even if he declined going to work for me that day.

Sundays Songs:
Let God Arise - Chris Tomlin
Oh Praise Him - David Crowder Band*
Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing) - Brian Doekerson
You Are My Portion - Darrel Evans (I was singing this song all weekend)
The Solid Rock - Edward Mote
The Arms Of Love - Vinyard
Famous One - Chris Tomlin

I'm still here

It's been a busy couple of days and I've finally got a chance to sit down and relax for a moment so I thought I'd blog. My computer at work, where I normally post from early in the morning decided to come down with a virus so it is getting fixed and I've been busy for the past few days so no time here at home to post. Had worship team practice yesterday which was fun and I'm looking forward to Sunday but at the same time I'm not because I was having trouble with something at practice, I would have all kinds of sound then I'd turn down to hear someone talk and then turn it back up and it would be really faint for a moment then after messing around with settings and such then BOOM there it is again. Don't know if a chord is shorting out or if I have an issue inside the guitar or what. I guess we'll see Sunday.

Went to the station tonight to do the board for the last football game of the year and it was interesting. 3 times that I remember and maybe a 4th we lost the call so we had dead air and I started playing the sponsor spots waiting for a call back, that was frustrating but there was nothing I could do but be ready. Next week starts regular SRF's for a few weeks, don't know when I'll be on but I'll let you know. Think I'll be heading over there sometime next week to work on some liners for the show with Naomi which I'm excited about. I came up with some liners for the show and we'll add some music and extras to them and debut them next Friday night. Got home from Muncie before heading over there and noticed that there was paint all over the side of the house. It was paint ball stains and we got alot of them off but not all, then tonight when I got home one of our neighbors came over and appologized for that, seems his friends were having a little fight last night with paint ball guns and got out of control, he offered to come over tomorrow and help clean the rest, I thought that was cool of him.

A few pics

This is where we are heading.........

This is where we are.......

And this is where we've been.

I just love all sorts of weather.

Signs for everything

Went over to our new warehouse at work today and found this sign. Do we really need to be reminded of somethings? UMMM...

Hmmm..

Not playing yesterday with the worship team left me thinking a bit yesterday. When your not playing you pay a little more attention to the words of a song. Most Sundays I'm up there reading the words but paying more attention to what chord is coming next or when to change settings on the foot pedal to get a different sound or what the little fill or riff is coming up. There are alot of things happening sometimes up there that keeps my attention from what is being said. Now before anyone thinks any differently there are those times where the lyrics of the song do connect and they connect in a big way. I had forgotten though what it was like to hang out in the seats for a whole service, those days are nice every once in awhile. I did find myself a few times going D, Am, F# here is where the little riff is....

Youth was fun as we went on a picture scavenger hunt which was fun and challenging. We didn't win but my team had some fun, even tried to hold up the team of Jamie Vickery at the Pizza King in P-Town down. It was all fun and had alot of laughs and now after the fact come up with some ideas of how we could have done things differently to maybe fair a bit better. Next time.

Another Rockin Night

Did Solid Rock Friday Night tonight with a little twist, I had another guest host tonight, Taylor. It was really fun to take her over there and let her have a little fun too. Now she has been over there before and did a little bit here and there but tonight she got to do alot more. She even got to have a couple of spots on her own. I'm very proud of her and I think we might be on to something here. Thanks to all who listened and those who didn't............what's up, help a brother out and show us some love ;}. I don't know when I'll be over there next but when I am Tyson will be my guest host for the evening, I'll keep you posted.

Tonights songs:
TobyMac - Ingintion
A Dream Too Late - Intermission To The Moon
Anberlin - Feel Good Drag
Jonezetta - Burn It Down
Fireflight - Unbreakable (for Pink)
Number One Gun - Find Your Escape
Skillet - Comotose
Kids In The Way - Sugar
Pillar - I Fade Away
KJ-52 - Run For Cover
First Class Faux - Between The Lines
Seventh Day Slumber - Shattered Life
Relient K - I Need You (for Tyler in Union City, IN even plugged his tv show on local cable)
Kutless - Overcoming Me
Demon Hunter - One Thousand Apologies (for Tammy, have I ever told you my wife rocks)
Thousand Foot Krutch - The Art Of Breaking
Since October - Guilty
Underoath - A Moment Suspended In Time

Turn it up

Tonight from 10 pm to 11 pm I will be doing the Solid Rock Friday Night show again and I'm bringing Taylor with me as a guest host for the show so be sure to check it out on 88.9 on the fm dial or 889joyfm.com online and rock with us. We are gonna be having a good time playing some good old fashioned rip the knob of the volume blow your speakers make the hair on the back of your neck stand up rock.

Hillsong United - With Hearts as One - Love Enough

This is from the new Hillsong United DVD that comes out next Tuesday I believe and I'm excited to get it and see it. Still need to go see these guys in concert.

Quotes

A few months ago I was invited to a meeting here at work with about 7 other people to discuss who knows what but all I remember was thinking why am I in here because the dialog of the meeting was basically between 2 people the rest of us just sat there. Anyway the guy who was leading the meeting was talking away when he said something that sounded kinda funny, I looked up and looked over at my boss who had the same "did he just say that" look on his face as well, so since I had my notebook in front of me I decided to write down what he said and for our entertainment he had 2 more quotes that day. Since then I have been writing down these little quotes and have a nice little list going and when someone says something interesting I write it down and now people know that they are on "THE LIST", which is actually something you don't want to be on. So here are the quotes, names excluded to protect peoples intelligence.

"Its all just bridge under the water." The first quote

"We'll go on business as ever."

"We really can't should."

"Now we are getting to the burger of the sandwich."

"Hey I found a whole movie last night."

"Should this could be different."

"We have to get the watermelon off the ground before the fruit in the trees." (I sure hope watermelons don't grow on trees, that would hurt to have one drop on your head.)

Player 1 "These are copper"
Player 2 "What's the copper made of?"

"That's neither here nor there it's water OVER the dam."

"Who left this half a bread?"

"Do you still have that book you gave me?" (one of my favorites.)

And the final one so far......
"I need to find a back with no chair."

Caption please

Some captions please.

Just a thought/question

Have you ever driven by the church (FFC) early in the morning and see all the lights around the building on and think "what a cool place."

Have you ever thought back when there was just the sanctuary there and thought "what a cool place."

Then the Family Life Center was added and you thought "what a cool place."

Then the Building to Bless started and the new building was added and thought "what a cool place."

Have you ever stepped inside on a Sunday and been to a service, complete with coffee, and think "what a cool place."

Have you ever known someone from school or wherever who you thought you'd never see in a church setting and bump into them at FFC and see a change and think "what a cool place."

Have you ever sat in a service and feel God's presence in a mighty way and think "what a cool place."

Have you ever been to the church and had your own life changed for eternity and think "what a cool place."

Have you ever thought that heaven is going to be way beyond your wildest dreams and think "what a cool place."

We have been greatly blessed with all that has happened in little old Farmland and I have this feeling that we ain't seen nothin' yet, just you wait and see.

Another good weekend gone by

Don't know if anyone else had a good weekend but I know I sure did, even got to start it off a little early by getting off of work at 1 pm on Friday. Left early because Tammy and I were going to go get a new car, saw one at Grimm in Winchester we really liked so we were off to there. Got over there and drove it, not bad but Tammy was hearing something she didn't like, they checked it out and agreed to fix it. Sat down to work out the numbers and got it in the range we wanted so we were scheduled to go back over there this evening to drive it again and go from there. We drove a 2008 Impala that was a very nice ride, too bad that wasn't in our range. So we head home wondering are we doing the right thing and I kept telling myself and Tammy that we were. Went to JOY FM to run the board for the football game and then got to rock out for a little over an hour with Solid Rock Friday Night, I'll be back over there this Friday doing SRF from 10 to 11, come rock with me.

Saturday we decided to go to Muncie and look at some more vehicles because the one from Winchester wasn't sitting right. Head off to Muncie behind Tammy and realized about Selma that I didn't have my wallet, opps. Turned around went back to get it and then to go meet Tammy to go looking. This delay gave me time to pray and finally get it, by that I mean I'd been praying about getting the right car and God leading us to it and I kept hear NO in my prayer but kept overlooking it, talking myself into believing we were doing the right thing, but it was real clear during the trip finally into Muncie that this is not the time to get a car, don't you love it when you finally GET IT and then realize all these little stumbling blocks were placed there on purpose for me to see this. I started wondering how Tammy would take this new news flash and she was very receptive and totally agreed, she mentioned it was like a weight being lifted off her shoulders. Long story short no new car, getting the old one fixed up and then its save money time and maybe next year we will be able to get another vehicle.

Church and youth both rocked yesterday, helped out at both youth groups which was alot of fun, don't know if you know it or not but we have alot of good kids in our midst at FFC. Here is yesterdays song list:
O' For A Thousand Tounges - David Crowder Band* version (thanks Pink for helping out, speaking of Pink-when you gonna blog again brother?)
Forever - Chris Tomlin
Let Every Thing That - Matt Redman
All We Need - Charlie Hall (I like the rocked up version we do on this one)
Indescribable - Chris Tomlin
Thank You- Not real sure who this is at this moment
Awesome God - Rich Mullins (Haven't done this one in a while but it sure was loud)

Little friendly challenge.

Hey all I just checked out JOY FM's website and they have a listing of all the towns that have had people pledge these last few days and noticed that Farmland has doubled up Parker City in pledgers 4 to 2. What's up P-Town Down? Bragging rights are on the line here and my fellow Farmlanders we need to build on this and keep pushing that number up into double digits. There is no way Parker City can reach double digits in pledgers so lets put it on them once again. Today is the final day for the sharathon so lets end this thing with a bang. For the record Winchester is ahead in the Randolph County area with 23 followed by Union City with 21 then Lynn with 7, Farmland with 4, P-Town and Albany both have 2 and Modoc 1.

Had a little worship team practice last night which was fun and we figured out a few new twists to some things but it was kind of hard to only practice with 3 people, but like I said it was a fun evening and I'm anxious for Sunday. Hung out with Nate for a while after practice and really enjoyed just chillin' and sharing ideas and stuff.

Today just might be new car day so if you could say a little prayer for us that we find the right one and one that is not going to strap us down financially. Pray that God leads us to the one we are supposed to have. Thanks in advance.

Almost there

It is almost weekend time and that my friends is a good thing. Got a little worship team practice tonight then who knows what tomorrow night then hopefully a nice 2 day weekend and maybe just maybe go looking again for a new vehicle. We got our eye on a couple over at Grimm in Winchester so we might sneak over there and check them out a little more. Tammy is scheduled to go to her first trade show with the place she works at Sunday in Indy so that should be fun for her. All kinds of things going on, Sharathon at JOY FM, have you pledged yet? Fire Prevention all day Saturday uptown, the Winchester 400 this weekend out at the Winchester Speedway, this will be the first one I've missed since I believe 1984. Saw my first one in 1982 when Rusty Wallace won the race and have been hooked ever since. That race is one of the biggest in the short track community and it has a who's who of stock car drivers who have participated in it. Its all good.

Had a blast last night at our growth group, it is always fun hanging out with friends from the church and enjoying the fun times. Now I'm looking forward to next Wednesday.

Fun filled afternoon

I come home yesterday after work to see this sitting outside our house and no I'm not talking about Mr. Price there. Taylor got home from school and when she went inside see smelled gas and no not leftovers from my spicy burritto and chilli cheese fritos from last week. Tammy had told me on the phone about what happened and that Taylor was over at Mom and Dad's and I guess they even went over there and smelled it as well. So Tammy got ahold of the police and Melvin Nott came down to take a look and he notified the fire department so they came down to take a look.
Funny thing is as I was picking Tyson up at school when we came out I heard the fire siren ringing and kind of laughed cause I knew where they were going. Told Tyson we might have some visitors when we get home and we did. We can joke about it now since it was nothing, they took their little meter thingys in there and couldn't detect anything out of the ordinary, but I am glad for a good bunch of guys on the FFD whom I was once a member of a few years back. It was also funny driving down the road and seeing the people standing in their yards looking down there with their morbid curiosity, which yes we all have from time to time. All is well and I had to take a couple of pics to keep up with PK and his photos of the trips the department makes out to FFC.

After things settled down Tammy and I watched a little Perry Noble.
It was a message on tithing and financial things which went well with our current series plus they had Decemberadio leading worship that particualar Sunday. If you want to check it out go to NewSprings website and watch the video. Its a good message and service. It made me think, why can't we get a national act to come lead worship for us some Sunday, I'd hand over my guitar to them for a week, hmmmm..

Quick reminder

In case you do not know or if you do know just a little reminder that JOY FM will be having their fall sharathon starting tomorrow Wed. Oct. 8th and going until Fri. Oct. 10 to raise money to keep the station functioning. Now I am a little biased because I get to go over there and play a little bit every couple of weeks but isn't it great to be able to turn on the radio and not only hear some good music but songs that are safe for all ages and songs that praise God. I believe the goal is $80,000 to keep the station going for the next 6 months. That seems like alot but at the same time not alot. So if you read this and are able to please help out with anything you can and I say thank you in advance. I pray that they can achieve this goal before going off the air on Friday for football, that would be cool. So please tell all your friends and neighbors and support JOY FM. By the way I'll be on there next Friday the 17th for some rockin.

Why can't all days be Sunday

Sunday has been for quite sometime now the best day of the week for many reasons. #1 another great series is underway at FFC, we are learning how rich we are. As we sit and think we always think that we're not rich, we're just getting by, but when we really sit and think about it we are rich. When you are in the top 3% in the world your doing pretty good I'd say. Now the only question I have is how can we help get the other 97% on track? #2 Youth Group. Each week is so much fun to hang out with the students and other leaders and just having fun with each. I look forward to 5:30 every Sunday and I'm really looking forward to the opening of the new youth room, I don't think it can get here soon enough. Oh and by the worlds standards we talked about 2 of the greatest things yesterday at church, money and sex, and people say that church is boring, how cool is our church? #3 NFL and NASCAR and for the next few weeks only MLB. Sundays are great days in between trips to the church with all the sport options on TV and that cherised nap if wanted during that time. Sundays are by far the greatest day of the week in my opinion.
Sunday Set List:
Not To Us - Chris Tomlin (Fun little diddy to play)
It Is You - Newsboys (Been awhile on this one)
The Heart Of Worship - Matt Redman
All Who Are Thirsty - Vinyard/Kutless
Break Me - Nate & Nate (First time ever playing this and I like it)
I Am Free - Newsboys (Been awhile on this one as well)
Mighty To Save - Hillsong (A favorite of everybodies I think)

Not a good sign

Today looked to be starting off like a pretty good day, Friday end of the week thing you know, went to fill up with gas so I could make it to work and headed in. All was well, went to the ATM at the bank to get some money and I noticed that the car was running really rough, got done there and took off and something is not right with the old Toyota. Going on to work, hoping I make it the check engine light comes on, great. Made into work and now wonder what should I do now? Will it make it home? Do I need to take it somewhere this morning (sounds of cash registers in my head), what should I do? On top of that, or actually before this happened, Tammy's car is having a hard time starting (have I mentioned I hate cars) so we need to get that fixed, oh when it rains it pours. So it looks like we will be getting both cars worked on in the immediate future. Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!!!

The day has arrived.

Today is the day that we are giving away Layla our dog. It has been a month or so since we decided that we need to find another place for her and yesterday one of the fellows that Tammy works with asked if we were still had her and if we were still looking for someone to take her. She said yes and he said he would take her so today Tammy is taking her into him. It is a bummer but I know in the long run it is the best thing. The kids kind of took it hard yesterday but thanks to Mom and Dad I think they now understand the situation a little better. Its gonna be wierd going home today and not having her jump up on me, maybe Tyson can do that now, or the actual getting up when the alarm clock goes off instead of hitting snooze to take her out. It will have its moments of difficulty but I still believe that this is best for all of us. She was good, she was bad, she was a joy to play with, and sometimes she was a pain but all in all she was a good dog to have for the few months we had her. I'm sure the kids will come up with some other type of pet that we should have and with Tyson that scares me because who knows what animal he would like as a pet. I guess it was only fitting that for the first time in the months that we had her that I stepped in a pile of poo this morning getting her chain up out of the ground. Oh the symbolism.

Show of hands

All those who didn't want to get out of bed this morning raise your hands, come on I know theres more of you, I've got my hand raised so come on don't be shy. It is getting to be great sleeping weather, is there such a thing, and as a matter of fact we were in bed before 9:30 last night, 9:30. I turned the baseball game off after the 6th inning, just couldn't hold my eyes open so we went to bed. It was a good nights sleep and one that I didn't want it to end so early at 4:30 in the a of m. Oh well duty calls.

Speaking of baseball just a bit ago, this is a great time of year with the playoffs starting today even though my Braves aren't in it again I'm still pumped up for it. More so because the Yankees aren't in the playoffs this year. I would like to see Tampa Bay win the World Series because nobody expected them to be where they are so thats who I'm pulling for plus they don't have a superstar so to speak of on the team so they didn't go out and buy their way into the playoffs like alot of other teams do. I'll be happy though if the Cubs (sorry Dad), Dodgers (sorry Pink) and Red Sox don't make it to the World Series. This is usually the time of year where Tammy starts to get into baseball a bit and then when shes all excited about watching a game its over, isn't that the way it goes. Anyone else interested in the playoffs?