I sent a very basic e-mail out to everyone associated with Wycliffe that I could get hold of. In it I asked some very basic questions,
- Your name?
- Where are you right now?
- What has been your biggest achievement of yesterday or today?
- What do you hope to accomplish today or tomorrow?
- What is the best bit of your job?
- What time is it now?
Discounting the automated ‘out of office’ replies, I’ve received 79 replies to date. I compiled a list of the replies to, ‘What do you hope to accomplish today or tomorrow?’, for our Centre Fellowship this morning and asked people to pray because this is what is happening in peoples’ lives today. Responses included…
- Communicating new IT skills to people
- Planning how to achieve language advocacy objectives
- Meeting a family planning to join Wycliffe UK
- Sending a PhD application off before going on holiday
- Smoothing out the logistics for From Eden to Eternity
- Getting my inbox empty again
- Going for a mammogram and praying it will be all clear
- Studying Thai and Preparing a tax return
- Moving house
- Typing out two more pages of a language translation
- Checking financial statements, checking funding proposals, explaining spreadsheets, updating vacancies list, trying to reduce my workload.
- After getting over grumpiness and self-pity… writing budget proposals and inviting people to a party.
- Finishing an anthropology paper for a peer reviewed journal
- Checking Ezekiel translation
- Trying to improve the translation of Matthew ch14 before moving onto Matthew ch15
- Resting bad leg after modifying 1983 Hondo motorbike to carry loads of up to 80Kgs over roads that 4wd’s can’t handle
- Keeping my family happy in a challenging environment
That’s all going on today, and loads more. This is why I think this is such a cool place to work, everyone playing their own part in a different way. I wonder what tomorrow will bring?
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That is wonderful! And even more wonderful that God really can be with all those people doing all those different things!
It’s great isn’t it? All that ‘ordinary’ stuff contributing to one great plan.
Nice one, Phil! And thanks for the prayers at Centre Fellowship. Logistics were smooth at Willowfield Parish Church in Belfast last night for the first N.Ireland performance of “From Eden to Eternity”
Just heard from Kent that it went well. Will be praying for the rest of the tour. Keep going, remember, sleep is for wimps!
We were at Orkney for the weekend, 14-15 March. Evening worship at the Firth Kirk with Rev Trevor Hunt. 19yrs ago we met at his manse following Mary Gardner’s Valedictory. Mary’s picture and info were on noticeboards in the Kirk hall where we met other supporters. They look forward to Mary & Lesley Johns coming up for a holiday soon. It was good to be there again. And hope to see Mary if she can come on to Shetland sometime.
That was a great idea, particularly hearing the full list. I think that material could be useful in other settings.
BTW I see on your tag list on the right that you’re blogging about a “2.0 wedding”. The mind boggles!
It’s all virtual. I’m just pixels in your imagination!
Great idea Phil.
I’m going to try that with OMF.
I’d love them to be doing that on a regular basis with Twitter.
@Tony W
Yeah – we’d love Wycliffe UK members overseas to be using twitter too! Trying to think how we can encourage them… would be good to share ideas if you have any too!