After a jumping out of the starting blocks quickly, my blogging got “blogged” down by life. Three things, all good, have kept me from keeping current.
Right after my last entry, I traveled back to the Detroit area for a special evening on behalf of Rochester College.
Over 700 friends of this liberal arts college, with roots in the Churches of Christ, came together for the 37th Annual Partnership Dinner. Because their new President, Rubel Shelly, is on our Provision Board of Directors and because we recently put together a major financing package for them, I was invited to represent our ministries at this event. The evening was filled with positive energy for the future of the school, and plenty of obvious appreciation for our ministry partnership. All in all it was well worth the time and effort to get there.
The special guest speaker for the evening was Robin Roberts, co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America, and she did an exceptional job of connecting her story to the values and mission of this fine institution. An added bonus was being able to attend church at Bristol Road Church of Christ in Flint, MI where Rubel speaks quite regularly. Thanks for the hospitality to everyone at the church and Rochester College.
The very next morning after my return flight, we kicked off one of our quarterly Provision board meetings. This is a special time as we are going through a review and recommitment to core govenance policies and principles. In the past, this process has been done internally, but this time we elected to enlist outside consulting help and chose to use Gary York and John Martin of LogicBoard. This was session two of a four-meeting intensive series, so we are half way to our goal of a completely new set of governance documents.
From that point until this moment, life has been a blur as we put on the final push to complete our home improvements. With a wedding shower for A.J. and Tom this weekend, we’ve been provided with a perfect goal date for completion. The last room to need floor covering was the bonus room upstairs. Anyone who has ever handed over this kind of space to teenagers will be able to relate to the archeological work we had to do just to find the floor and four walls. Getting everything out was more than a full day’s work, and then we were committed to repainting. Mission accomplished by Sunday night for carpeting on Tuesday morning. All that is left is sorting and re-stocking the shelves (which includes the ever-popular “keep-it-or-throw-it” game with two young adult children who live 50 and 2700 miles away). Wish us luck!
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