Twin Rivers Blog Central

Having just read the newest Reader’s Digest, I felt the need to share a few words for a few of our staff Pastors, to give them a little taste of home.

For Pastor Chuck & Pastor Jeff: How do you know you’re from Ohio? You own only three spices: salt, pepper & ketchup.

For Pastor Mac: On his first trip to Boston, the North Carolinian met a girl and asked her, “Do you go to Harvard?” The girl responded, “Yale.” “Okay,” he said, “DO YOU GO TO HARVARD?!”

And, last but not least, for Pastor Chris & Stephanie Gilbert: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in Kentucky? If it’d been invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.

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It’s been a while since I posted my last blog….  I’ve been meaning to post this for quite some time….  Just haven’t.

I heard this song on the radio again this morning, and decided that it was time.  Take a minute to watch the video for this song, and read the lyrics to the chorus of this song.

Then reflect.

“Give me your eyes for just one second, five me your eyes so I can see

Everything that I’ve been missing, give me your love for humanity

Give your arms for the broken hearted, the ones that are far beyond my reach

Give me your heart for the ones forgotten, give me your eyes so I can see”

Did you let the words sink in? Can you feel it?

I believe this is one of the most powerful songs that is playing on Christian radio right now.  And, most of miss it.  I missed the first few times I heard the song.  But, think about it for a few minutes.  What would happen if each of us prayed this prayer each morning before we left our house?  What a different world we would live in….

Think about it.

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I have several blogs that I check on a daily basis. Most of them, I check in order to keep up with friends and family that I don’t see often enough. However, one of them I check because it inspires me. Makes me take a closer look at myself. While this is not always a fun thing (when you take a closer look at yourself, sometimes you aren’t pleased with what you see), it’s a necessary thing.

Having said that, I would like to “borrow” the following thoughts on hope….

http://rickwhitter.blogspot.com/2008/09/church-and-hope.html

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Amazingly enough, this question has actually come up twice TODAY. In one day! So, I thought…hhhmmm….perhaps we should explore this issue. I’ll let you be the final judge.

By now, you’ve all seen the news stories. Yet another politician has fallen. Another “powerful” man has cheated on his wife. What’s different this time? He seemed to be one of the “good” ones. Nice family man, loving husband, a man who actually cares about the American people. My reaction? “I’m not surprised”. And, it’s the truth. I’m not. I’m actually more surprised when I find out about politicians (or anyone in the major media spotlight for that matter) who AREN’T found in one compromising situation or another.

Tonight, my husband and I are doing what at least 50% of every other household in the US is doing tonight…watching the Olympics. Despite the fact that my husband works for a competing station, our TV is locked on NBC (although, out of fairness to my husband, he’s a TV nerd, and he’s really only watching to see what’s new in the world of HD television). During one of the MANY commercials breaks, a commercial for Exxon Mobile came on. In this commercial, they explained what Exxon Mobile is doing to help fight the malaria problem in Africa. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against ANYONE helping the poor in Africa fight against a horrible disease like malaria. However, having said that, in the midst of the commercial, Stuart and I participated in one of our favorite hobbies……commercial interpreting. Now, there are MANY good candidates out there, but the Exxon Mobile ones are the BEST for the sport of commercial interpreting. Usually, they spend 30 seconds saying a lot of words that can basically be boiled down to the following sentence, “Exxon Mobile….Please Don’t Hate Us”. Today’s commercial, however, had a little more flair to it. I was more than just, “Please Don’t Hate Us”. By telling us what they are doing to help the poor in Africa, they were saying to us, “Exxon Mobile….See, Not ALL $4 Per Gallon Is Paying Our Country Club Dues!”.

Now, I don’t think I’m jaded, I think I’m realistic.  I don’t see everything through rose colored glasses.  But, maybe I’m wrong, maybe I am jaded.  I will leave it up to you. What do you think?

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A quick disclaimer… I love music (most of it). Always have. I have less than zero musical talent…but I still love music. Therefore, many if not MOST of my posts will probably be about a song.

I have to thank Pastor B for this particular post. As he does every once in a while, this past Sunday, he busted out an old song during the morning worship service.

I wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now

gotta make it to Heaven somehow

O, the devil tempts me and he tries to turn me around

he’s offered everything that’s got a name

all the wealth I want, worldly fame

if I could, still I wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now

When I was in high school, a friend of mine taught me a “different” version of this song.

Wouldn’t take nothing for my jersey cow, gotta make to market somehow…

That’s all I remember. For years, every time I heard this song, that version would run through my head. Couldn’t get it out. But, that was before.

That was before I graduated high school, and went to college. That was before I had a “real” job. That was before I was out on my own. That was before I was married. That was before I had a child. That was before life became “complicated”.

In the last 10 years, I can truly say I’ve been on a “journey” in both my personal and spiritual lives. Some it has been good. There have been a lot of great times, and a lot of great memories. Some has not. There are days that I wish I could forget some of it…

However, one thing I can say is, good or bad, it has been an AMAZING journey. And, the honest truth is:

“If I could, still I wouldn’t trade nothing for my journey now”

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Today I feel the need to let everyone know that I am most thankful for my Assisimilation Assistant, who also happens to be my daughter. The gauntlet has been raised to identify several areas of importance in our database that our simply beyond my scope of knowledge. While some may feel that barameter is not too awfully high, the fact remains that without my assistant’s help, it would be a challenge beyond me. So, thank you Amanda. Thank you Pastor Chuck for helping me grow (as if I really needed that…) and not to be left out, thank you Pastor B. for always helping us to shoot for that mark of excellence in all that we do.

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well, if you’re finding this blog, you’ve most likely already seen the updated trwc.com. this updated site is more than just a facelift, it was a new build from the ground up. the original site (red site) was built several years ago by Mark Scott and Aaron Buck with plain old html coding. although we tried to keep it looking current with updated graphics and a little flash here and there, it simply became a dinosaur and was very difficult to manage in an organization our size. Thus the rebuild.

the new site (green) is built on a CMS (content management system) technology using Joomla for the underlying architecture. This allows us to open up the management of the site to allow the various ministry leaders to be able to manage the content of their portion of the site without having to have special software or knowledge of web design. simply using a Word-like interface, they type their content, place their pics and when they hit save, their updated page appears.

Another powerful aspect of Joomla is the size of its developer community. Joomla is open source, meaning the code is free, so thousands of individuals have written extensions to perform various tasks and many of then submit them for free use to any other joomla user. These extensions allowed us to create the dissolving event banner, upcoming events feed, wiping reveal location map, interface to google calendar, media gallery links to flickr and many more features.

Speaking of flickr, our primary goal in rebuilding the site wasn’t just to make it more modern, but to make it interactive. The use of flickr as a media manager has allowed us to start doing just that. Now, if you want to upload your pictures of TRWC related events, let me know and we’ll make you part of the Twin Rivers flickr group and approve you to post your images to your ministry page or media gallery.

We’ve also created a central blogging site using Wordpress to allow pastors, staff and ministry leaders a way to communicate with their groups and the TRWC community in general. As the blogs catch on, this is going to be a great way to develop discussions using the commenting and “linking back” features of the Wordpress system.

If you have any other questions about the new site or recommendations on ways to improve it, please let me know by commenting on this post.

Oh yeah! I’m not sure how public this knowledge is (was) but we’re not done with the site yet! Not even close! Without saying too much, the interactivity has only begun to be implemented. we’re already in development on the next phase of TRWC on the web and if you can imagine a direct link between you and the church staff, ministry leaders, your friends in your small groups, your family’s events and more, you’re just starting to get the picture of what we have planned!

later,

aaron

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Well, this is as good a place as any to get started. First of all, welcome to TRWC Blog Central. This site was built to give you an opportunity to get to know the staff and leadership of TRWC in a more personal way. This particular blog (once I figure out how it all works) will contain everything from photos from my flickr account to updates about technologies and interesting things I’ve posted to a Tumblog and hand typed notes about the going ons in the media dept and life in general.

Again, thanks for popping by and please check back often to see what’s happening in the various ministries at TRWC.

aaron buck

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