this has been one crazy, busy, exciting, momentous, life changing week.
to start it all off, we launched the new series at journey sunday called “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” It was great. We had over 100 people in worship. Hopefully they will come back and bring friends. Eric has challenged the church to reach 2 services by Easter. That means we need to have about 150 people. Big expectations, but as I have been learning, if you want God to do extraordinary things you have to expect him to move extraordinarily! To keep the momentum up and keep excitement buzzing, we are constantly thinking of new and better ways to operate on Sunday mornings. This means making little and cost effective changes that make people go “hey something big is going on here.” We could use some ideas…
On the school front, I got my first project management test back. The class average was a 63. Not acceptable. The highest grade was an 85 and it was the only B. The rest of the 35 people in the class made in the 70-55 range. What does that tell you? Something might be wrong with the test. This is a graduate level class as in the highest level you can take in this specialty, the next step is the capstone project. All projects are different. None have the same qualities. Even if you took the exact same building and placed it on a different site, you would have new and different things to deal with. Therefore, how can you give a test of multiple choice and true/false? This is not acceptable. This is not a sophomore level weed-out class. Give me a test that tests my critical thinking, application of my skill and knowledge of what i have learned in this class and others. The only reason he gave for not doing that was, “do you know how long that would take to grade? I have 170 students Elliott, and I have other things to do during the day.” So my response to him is well i have 4 classes with labs to take this semester, do you know how long it takes me to read the chapter more than once so i can grasp the knowledge for your test, and i can fill my day with plenty of worth while things with journey and helping out places and not have time to do my homework. Would that be acceptable? Most would say no. The same applies to him. If I have to put that much time into learning the material i should have a teacher who will test and evaluate me fairly. I am the one paying the bills here.
And now to the good part of the week. On wednesday afternoon around 4:15, i asked meredith to marry me. she said yes by the way. we kept it simple and personal. i proposed at her apartment after she got home from work. We then spend the next 2 hours on the phone calling and texting people, letting them know the good news. After that, i surprised mere with a dinner at Ariccia with both of our parents. It was great to have that fellowship that night! Finally, after dinner, we joined our friends at Tim’s house for a celebration. It was the best part of the night, next to her saying yes! The Lord has blessed us with wonderful and extremely supportive friends who i can’t wait to spend years with. Here are some pics from the night.
