New Year, New You

With the New Year upon us, I always have the same issue of setting goals to take, my life and leadership forward in the next 12 months.

Something really helped me was by tackling some very good questions set to us by our Senior Pastors Jason & Jodi Cask at C7 Church.

They are:

1. What will you do different to make sure you don’t have the same year?

2. Who will you deliberately seek friendship with to enlarge your life?

3. How will you increasingly grow in your knowledge of who Jesus is?

4. How much discipline is needed to hit your goals?
 
These are 4 challenging questions but I dare you to take a couple of hours and invest them into yourself and see what a difference your life will look like in 12 months time.

I would like to wish all of my followers a happy New Year.

Many Thanks
Nat Fisher

Games that work #1

Ok I thought I would share some games Jamie Oliver style: simple, cheap and fun.
The first game is called pucker up courtesy of transformation station.

Ingredients:
1 sheet of fibre glass
40 cookies Approx
Marshmallow fluff

Recipe
Have 2 leaders hold the sheet of fibre glass and put a dollop of marshmallow fluff on each cookie and stick the cookies to the fibre glass, with an equal amount on each side.

Enjoy
Have 1 child from each team on either side of the fibre glass get all of their cookies off the sheet of fibre glass using only their mouths. The winner is the first to have cleared their side of cookies.

Watch out for
Only one child per side can play (as you don’t want to spread germs), for the same reason make sure the other children don’t try and eat the cookies after they’ve been removed.

Have fun

Nat

C7 Vision 2010

I’m so glad to be serving an awesome church, under our amazing pastors Jason and Jodi Cask, who have set out an awesome vision for 2010.
please feel free to check it out here our-vision.html, I love that we have a vision that is so large it requires an army of faith filled believers with an awesome God to see it come to pass.

Pay now play later

I am reading a great book by John C Maxwell called Today Matters.

I am already feeling challenged by what areas of my life I need to prioritise to produce the most effectiveness out of my today.

For instance before I got married I could spend endless hours playing risk and watching The Cosby Show with Funny Man Dan (famously of thethursdayblog.com).

But now I’m married I have made a conscious decision that what was good for the season of singleness isn’t good for the season of marriage.

So instead of staying up late playing wii or watching TV I can go to bed early so I can get up early the next morning to share breakfast with Hosanna and help make our lunches and get both of us out of the door and on time for work.

 

The same principle applies to my leadership, as I lift my level of leadership; I have to lift my level of excellence. For what worked when I had no leaders under my responsibility was ok, but now I am bringing leaders through I have to lead by example. Or as John C Maxwell puts it: “pay now and play later or play now and pay later”. I for one would rather pay now, despite the cost and be able to look back on a life lived well rather than paying for mistakes and opportunities missed and looking back with regret later in life

What do I have faith for

I was having a beer with a god friend last night (yes, in Scotland we can have a beer and still go to heaven) and he was asking me what do I have faith for? This got me thinking because i could have snapped back and given him the correct answer: “I see thousands of kids getting saved and my leadership impacting generations”, (which I do anyway). But to have faith for something I believe that you must be able to see it happening in your mind, you must be able to see a picture of what it looks like, for instance for our kids ministry to go to the next level, I see us having separate rooms for different age groups, more leaders, the funnest most exciting programmes that make kids want to bring their friends. But if I can’t see this in my head I probably don’t have faith for it, I just know the right answer to give my leaders, and this will fall because God works with faith not right answers. What do you have faith for, I encourage you start writing down what it looks like, because as James said “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” James 2:17.