Mike Edmisten Follower of Jesus. Husband of Nicki. Father of Ryan & Brock. Communicator of the Word.

Water, Water Everywhere

This is the second post outlining how I spend my week as a pastor at ACC.

In my previous post, I noted that there is no such thing as an "average week" in ministry. Today was a shining example of that truth. Actually, it was a rather soggy example.

Thanks to the constant barrage of rain since yesterday, our church basement flooded this morning. At 9:00 am, the basement was bone dry. At 9:45 am, the water was three inches deep and rising. Brian Morrissey and I spent our entire morning pushing a squeegee across the basement floor, trying to save the basement furniture from the rising waters, etc. One of the sump pumps wasn't working properly, which gave us the deluge in our basement. Thankfully, I think the damage was minimal.

Every once in a while, I have a "they never taught me that in Bible College" moment. Today was one of those days. I never knew that part of ministry would include wading through a flooded basement, but it did today. Thankfully, one of our members, Don Allen, came to the church building to fix the sump pump. I'm pretty sure neither Brian nor I would have been able to figure that one out!

That took us to lunch. With the basement in Don's capable hands, Brian and I went to a lunch meeting with one of our elders. I love how closely our leadership stays in contact with one another at ACC. It's awesome.

After that, I tried to salvage the rest of my day. The basement flood altered my plans because I had planned on really getting some serious sermonizing done this morning. That obviously didn't happen. I did get some studying and sermon prep done this afternoon. It's a long way from finished, but I'm glad I got some of the prep work done today.

Most people don't realize that it takes 20-25 hours to prep a sermon each week. Some weeks it's just not possible to give that much time to it, and you just pray for God to make up the difference. This might be one of those weeks. We'll see.

At 6:00 this evening, I'll be back at church helping set up tables for a funeral dinner that will be held at ACC tomorrow.

That'll put a wrap on another full day of ministry.