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

A Non-Stop Day

A fourth post chronicling the comings and goings of my week as a pastor at ACC.

I went straight to Starbucks this morning to work on my message for Sunday. I went for a few reasons, only one of which is that I like their coffee. Oh, and I also got a generous gift card from our church for Pastor Appreciation Month.

I love the environment created in this coffee shop. It's really conducive for my sermon prep. I also have no internet access there. They offer it, but you have to pay a pretty steep fee for it and I'm just not willing to pony up that kind of coin. So I have no internet or email access while I'm there, and that can be a good thing because it's one less distraction for me.

I worked on my sermon for the entire morning at Starbucks, from 8:30 am-12:00 pm. After grabbing a quick bite of lunch, I went to the office at church. I spent the next hour and a half working with Brian Morrissey setting up the stage and seating in the auditorium. Everything had been moved for the funeral dinner earlier in the week, so everything had to be set up from scratch.

After the set up was completed, Brian and I talked over the service for Sunday one more time. It's completely rearranged from the way we would normally do it, and it's gonna be awesome!

After that, I had a little bit of correspondence with our elders. Then I went back to sermon prep. I had to complete my script, my PowerPoint, and my outline for the bulletin.

It's now 5:00 pm, and I think I've got everything ready to roll for Sunday. It truly was a non-stop day.