What a day!

I have had one of those days. You know that day that everywhere you turn there is a problem. I still doing good today. I am gong to leave work and go to my favorite restaurant- "Cracker Barrel". I guess most people drown their sorrows with alcohol, Food would be my choice. I do justify it by saying, I got to eat somewhere why not my favorite. Those of you concerned about me blowing my diet, don't worry, I'm not on one. I look this good without dieting! HA!

I will be heading to New Orleans this week to survey our mission trip during winter break. I look forward to our kids going, and watching along side of them as they experience helping those they do not know. This is why I love my job(ministry) so much. I get to do so many great things!

Dating, Dating, Dating! It this is all I will say about that!

Church is good. We are getting ready for our Christmas Musical!

Family is not bad, they love to give me true's about myself. I need to share it with you one of these days. Not today, I'm going to Cracker Barrel!

37 Improvements for Terry Davis

1.  Be a nicer person.

2. Call my friends more.

3.  Have more down time(relaxation)

4.  Sing more

5.  Travel more

6.  Spend more time with family

7.  Be nicer to my students

8.  Invest more time reading God's word

9.  Invest more time praying

10.  Invest more time in people

11.  Spend less time buying things

12.  Give more

13.  Read more

14.  Worry less

15.  Exercise more

16.  Read less email

17.  More face to face discussions

18.  Spend more time with my work buddies

19.  Spend more time with my church buddies

20.  More random acts of kindness

21.  Spend more one on one time with my nephews

22.  Listen to more music

23.  Keep a cleaner house

24.  Keep a cleaner car

25.  Keep a cleaner office

26.  De clutter my life

27.  Watch less TV

28.  Eat healthier food

29.  Stick with my budget

30.  Total money makeover

31.  Live like no one else so I can live like no one else

32.  Lead at Work

33.  Lead at Church

34.  Eat less

35.  Get to know my neighbors

36.  Keep dreaming 

37.  Revisit goals(5,10, 15 year)

Macbook!

We are going really slow with Macbook. I do not have all the bells and whistles I need. Don't worry they are coming. I am really excited about the IMovie part. Every month I have to find movie clips and make them available for our faculty to show during their homeroom growth period. Last month was great! Now, I have my own macbook, it should go a lot faster. We are using ProPresenter for our chapel assemblies. It is like Media shout and Easy worship. I am still learning at this stage. It is my latest toy. I was at Starbucks recently, and the women are noticing my new toy. I said they were noticing my new toy, not me! RATS! It is good to be in the mac world. My facebook got a lot of hits when I said I got a mac. So, go get one and join this new adventure.

Catalyst

Catalyst was awesome!  This is a leadership conference held here in Atlanta Georgia.  Most of all of our administrators go to this conference.  This year was awesome.  Andy Stanley of the North Point Community church was the opening keynote and also closes this conference out. He is my new hero.  He has an amazing insight to Leadership in our churches and our institutions.  

I actually needed this conference after our JV Volleyball season. I got the chance to go to the Preconference labs and the actually conference itself.   I am always introspecting and after this season I have done it more than I needed to but did it anyway.  Leading is hard!  No one wants to do it these days.  People are always second guessing the leadership.  I have to admit I question a lot in an attempt to make things better. I offer solutions, not just complaining about how things are going.

Many great speakers at this conference.  My favorite was Dave Ramsey.  He is on the radio and TV.  He talked about how Christians should not have that fear that exist now in our world.  We should be the model on how to handle things during this tough time.  I also got a chance to eat lunch with him thanks to Andrew Baker, a good friend who works for Harding's Institute for Church and Family.  I am very thankful to him(Andrew) in allowing me to join him for lunch/ He gave great insight on how he runs his business and shared stories that I will never forget about the atmosphere there.  I would love to one day run my own company with many employee's.  

The music was incredible.  I don't listen to a lot of contemporary christian music.  Strange for a worship leader, but I truly enjoyed the music this year.  I love to get lost in the praise.  As a leader, I had the opportunity to just praise God without thinking about anything but God.  I still love Acappella singing, this was one experience I will remember for along time.

I highly recommend this conference for ministers, educators, and anyone who would love to learn more and be encouraged while doing so.  They do a great job at Catalyst.  Hope to see you there next year!

What's up?

I am so far behind in updating this blog. I almost want to consider it a sin. This week I have a several things I would like to blog about. I will list them here, and hopefully I will do a better job this week. Catalyst, Macbook, economy for young professionals, Washington DC trip, 12:11 church service, fear, and faith issue are all things I will try and talk about this week. Meanwhile, I am feeling pretty good right now. I have been sleeping alot due to the overnight trip from Washington DC. Life is good! Do I say that alot? Anyway, have a great week. Check back in soon!

Somebody really loves Terry Davis!!!

I got a macbook today! Yes! I'll say it again. I got a macbook today! It is really not mine, but my job supplied me with a new mac today. I have not had an apple computer in 9 years. I am playing with it today. I am enjoying it today. The tech department is allowing me to keep my pc laptop as well. I will have the best of all the world. Somebody really loves Terry Davis!!!

October is here!

15-6 is our final record for my JV Volleyball coaching career. I am done. I will say it again, I am done! I remembered why I quit when I was in Dallas besides moving to Atlanta. Coaching is different from being the Chaplain. Chaplaincy is a very positive job. One would have to try to make it a negative one. Coaching can be fun. It does involve parents, players, and fans. If you could get them all rowing in the same direction the coach would have fun. Please understand, I am an intense coach who likes to win. Every game if possible, you understand. I don't like to lose. Anyway, it is over and my prayer is that my players learned something about life while playing for me.

Catalyst is this week. Anyone going? It could not have come at a better time. I have it from Wednesday to Friday. Next week is our annual Washington DC trip with 7th graders. I have already seen who I will be chaperoning so it should be a good trip. I love this time with the kids.

JH missions is kicking in now. I just finished Volleyball and now it is time to kickoff our Missions and service program in the Junior High. We will be going to New Orleans during winterbreak, and Phillippi West Virginia during Springbreak. Both trips are service oriented. Life changing events for some, because they will be introduce to hard labor. Yeah!

October, I am or will be focusing on the social life. I know I am getting older, and probably need to channel some of this energy of mine.(Don't laugh, I know you knew this long time ago) Please be in prayer for all that will happen here in October.