4Ü #225
A time for change
15 December 2005
- WASSUP - Wonder full
- INSIGHT OUT - The arrival
- OUTSIGHT IN - Perception and reality
- SEE YA SUNDAY - A close encounter with God
- LAST WORD - A time for change
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WASSUP - Wonder full
This will be my last 4U for 2005
I'll be taking a break and will look forward to reconnecting with you again in mid February 2006.
Thank you once again for taking the time to read my random thoughts each week.
I've just started the process of working with a designer to put 4U together into a book as many of you have encouraged me to get it published. You can be assured that this book will be unlike any book you have ever read before. It'll be a book that could go anywhere; from the company board-room to a church bulletin. I'm looking for some corporate sponsors that could be incorporated in the book and who may be interested in using this book to shape a thinking culture within their organization.
Any expressions on interest most welcome.
My Leadership book that I've been working on over the past two years with Liz Smythe is now produced as a one day leadership workshop. We will be hosting our second presentation of this in March 2006. If you would like an invite to this please let me know.
Have a wonder full Christmas.
Rest.
Re create.
Blessing.
Andrew
INSIGHT OUT - The arrival
O Holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us we pray
Cast out sin and enter in,
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord ImmanuelPhillips Brooks 1835 -93
OUTSIGHT IN - Perception and reality
It's taken me a long time to admit and I still don't like it, but perception is reality!
The way you see things is the way you see things. Your picture is your picture.Your picture is the "reality" you work from. If you don't believe me go and have a talk to a teenager. Perception is reality. (Truth is another topic for another day).
Organizations, companies, churches and even families have to work with this reality every day.
What you say you are doing may not be what others are experiencing.
There may be a difference in perception of what is or isn't being done or seen to be done.
The gap or differences of perceptions is the unreality.
So we happily go along thinking all is calm, all is bright, when it's not!
At St Columba we are part way through a perception / reality check. We commissioned an independent researcher to find out if what we say we are doing is, in fact, what people are experiencing.
If you would like to read the first stage of this report send me an email and I'll send it to you or have a look on our web page where it will be posted in the next few days. Your feedback is most welcome.
This is fascinating reading; some things we are doing very well, on others we have work to do.
The summary report is 4 pages. The full report is 40, so when you are ready make yourself a cup of coffee, sit down and have a read.
SEE YA SUNDAY - A close encounter with God
Saturday - 17 December 2005 - The Grinch
Children's live musical production
@ St Columba Church
480 Ti Rakau Drive, Botany
2pm and 7pm, Saturday 17 December
Entry by gold coin donation
This Sunday morning - 8.30am & 10.30am - A close encounter with God
It's been said that people and their pets often look alike.
In what ways do you take on the characteristics of those you live with?
What would you look like if you had God hang out with you?
Bread & Wine - 9.45am - Weekly Communion
The Ride - 7.00pm - Interactive Christmas Experience - Emily Hutchinson
Thanks for this time to chat
Andrew
St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz
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LAST WORD - A time for change
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy