Monday, August 14
Everything's Orange...
Well, I'm back...I arrived in Tennessee Friday evening (although my luggage didn't...it's still out there in 'luggage limbo land'). It only took me two minutes to know for sure I was back in the land of Volunteers. I saw the front page of the local sports page and saw that all 6 articles on the page were about the UT football scrimmage the next day...ahhh, football in the south.
I'm reacquainting myself with my family, my home (I keep going to the wrong cabinet for glasses), and this beautiful place we know as East Tennessee.
Two huge numbers are at the forefront of my mind on this Monday afternoon...181 & 172.
It is 181 days until we have our first Sunday Gathering for the 'newthing' here in Knoxville...2.11.07 to be exact.
And I have a list of 172 action points (or 172 "Points of Light" as I affectionately call them) that need to be completed before those 181 days tick away...
Whew...okay, here we go...
shalom,
mark
Mark Nelson at 2:15 PM 11comments
11 Comments
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at 9:40 PM
Mark Nelson said... Yep...2.11...that's what we're looking at...we feel like if not in February we'll have to wait til fall, no one wants to do that...
Thanks for taking care of the pillows...my neck and back thank you greatly...-
at 11:15 PM
Nicole said...
Left behind items..makes me think that you left all of your Jerry Jenkins and Tim Lahaye memorabilia here in the artic north. Funny...
Exciting! Only a few months to go!-
at 11:11 PM
truevyne said...
172 means you have 8 days to lay around and do nothing before the new thing in 181 days. No sick days allowed.
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at 12:40 AM
said... Welcome home. Please continue updating us on the plant. Also, please pick a new font next time, as this one was barely legible.
So excited for the New Thing and what God is doing for you. God bless you.-
at 8:04 AM
said...
Go vols. You're in God's country...don't ever forget that. :)
Indiana, if you're wondering, is his foot-stool. :)
JUST KIDDING.-
at 8:05 AM
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That was me above. It didn't allow me to leave my name. Sorry.
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at 8:05 AM
said...
Dadgummit. It did it again. It just skipped to publish. Well, it's Jeph. There. I hide from no one.
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at 1:59 PM
said...
So good to find your blog (off Pervis' pc website) and see where you are these days!
Have a question -- because I'm a 28 year old Gen Xer/GRUP and live in Denver now -- wondered if you know any good churches out here for that type?
Carol Saunders
carnders@hotmail.com-
at 11:08 AM
nate said...
hey mark...
i'm always intersted to see what's happening in knoxville. i found your blog after Anyssa told me you were planting a church there. great! i'm working with ciy here in joplin, and am invoved with a church plant too...i'm not a staff member of the church...just a layperson i guess. anyway...i pray your plant goes well.
nate karnes-
at 5:50 PM
Mark Nelson said...
Nate...it's good to hear from you...hope things are well there in Joplin. You dad keeps me updated on how things are going for you when I go out to school to trounce him in Badminton...
What's the church plant you're involved with...?
mark-
at 12:27 PM
nate said...
mysterychurch.com is the website for our church. i'm a part of the launch community i guess...we're planning to launch in the winter.