I haven’t spent much time writing during the last couple of weeks. We have been working hard at church to finalize plans for a mission project during Spring Break. That project began with our group yesterday afternoon and continues on through the end of the week. I’m so very proud of them and am proud to be in ministry with them. Here’s a video I took this morning of a wall going up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLjMG2wpSn4

I’ll update some more during the week. For now, here’s some of the links I found interesting last week:

Should the pastor preach or clean toilets. Fantastic post.

My friend and IWU professor Lenny Luchetti on sermon planning retreats.

I did get an iPad 2. Here’s one of Rick’s remarkably thorough examinations of it..

Ouch.

Double ouch.

Great post about places and ministry.

I might write an iPad 2 review, but for now, let me just share one great moment with it (I’ve had it 9 days). Yesterday, I was in the home of a 91 year old lady who lost her husband three weeks ago. The Sunday after her husband’s funeral I baptized her great-grandson. She wasn’t present for the baptism and mentioned how much she would have liked to have been there. I took out the iPad and showed her the video I had uploaded to Vimeo and so we sat in her sitting room and watched it. At the end of the video I looked at her and saw a single tear roll down her cheek.

Sometimes I really hate that I’m so drawn to technology and gadgets, but that moment made me happy.