Within Kairos

 So I drove out last Saturday.  Everyone that heard I was driving was scared, tried to stop me, gave me a lot of advice.  And the advice was good, unless it was ’stay here’.

I left early Sat morning nervous about the whole trip, and the roads were perfect!  Took the long way on the old Hwy 1 route to Kamloops, perfectly dry roads.

Even though the roads were great there was still a horrible accident where someone died. :(  There was a large truck following me for a while west of Revelstoke.  I got a little ahead of him, and then never saw him again.  We had to stop for about 10 minutes for some road maintenance and a smaller car pulled up behind me, a girl got out and came running up to see if I had any cell phone reception.

Apparently that truck behind me sandwiched a car between him and another truck, and two more cars were hit.  I think a driver of one of the cars died instantly, she said that it was pretty obvious.  Her boyfriend even pulled someone out of a burning car!  The truck driver had called for help, but told them to rush ahead and get help.

About 5-10 minutes later a rescue vehicle passed, and then an ambulance, fire rescue, and a helicopter. I think there was someone on the scene to help within 10-15 minutes.

I was a little nervous after that and drove a little slower.  To think it happened right behind me and I never knew. If I had left just a little earlier that morning I would have been the one pulling the guy out of the burning car.

Yikes.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, Rogers Pass was perfect, and other than a snowstorm from Lake Louise to Banff it was smooth sailing.

One lesson to take away is to be careful, even if the roads are perfect.  I think that the accident happened because a car was trying to pass one of the trucks and got clipped by the truck behind me.

Ministry Essentials Training…

So much information, it has taken me a week to post anything about it.  I had a great time.  Luckily I had already known a lot of what they covered so I was able to take away the good bits without being completely overwhelmed.

Our group was the “quiet thinker” type, but that meant we sure grilled Leonard (president of Power to Change) when we were at his place.  I am very encouraged by his leadership and the direction he is taking Power to Change.  He wholeheartedly supports taking risks and encourages staff to try new strategies.

Well, today was my last day working full-time at TruthMedia. But I’m not gone for good, once I finish MPD I’ll be back working part-time with them. It has been a great year and a half, but I am excited to get through MPD(Ministry Partnership Development, see: fund raising) and back on campus.

I do somewhat enjoy working on computers, and I have the training and knowledge for it, but I seriously cannot do it every day, eight hours a day. Really sucks the energy out of me.

I think working half on campus and half in the office will be great.

But first, I’ve got to make it through MPD.

Got this spam the other day.  Anyone who has seen the new Futurama movie will know why I just had to open it.

From: bender@ilovebender.com

Subject: You WON a spanish lottery!

You WON a Spanish lottery.
$400,000 yours!

Just give us your credit card number and you got money!

 I sent them my card number, but they haven’t come by with my cheque yet…

I’m alive!  Really.  You forget about posting for a little while and suddenly it is four months later!  Yikes.  Earlier today I tried to blame it on being too busy, but realized I just had one and a half weeks off…  So that can’t be my excuse.

Oh well.  Two weeks left with TruthMedia, then it’s off to staff training and MPD (Ministry Partnership Development). It will definitely be interesting over the next few months.