Promiseland church members put $100 to good use
San Marcos Daily Record – December 18th, 2009
By Jeff Walker
Features Editor
Pastor Robin Steele calls it a Servolution.
The sermon at Promiseland Church started off like any other on a Sunday back in September, as Steele relayed the Parable of the Talents to his congregation. He preached on the importance of utilizing one’s individual gifts given by God. No one but Steele was aware of the twist that was coming.
“Everyone was sitting there looking at me, and I said ‘OK, I need 15 people who want to put this sermon into action right now, and I need those people to stand up and come up front.’” Steele said. “I said it just real cold and hard just to see who would do it.”
And what has happened over the next three months since has changed lives.
Christmas Decorations
I just was sent this email from a friend:
Well, there is good news and bad news about my Christmas decorations this year
Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by. Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.
Kind of feel like I gave in by taking it down but my neighbor did confirm two near miss accidents on the busy street next to my house. I think I made him too real this time
So it was fun while it lasted…..Merry Christmas everyone!
Blog Drought
It seems like with Facebook, Twitter, and other internet features that blogging is on the endangered species list. Compared to the other types of internet interaction, blogs are long, cumbersome, and not very quick. Even if written once a day, that blog content is not near as entertaining to the younger generations as status updates and the daily pictures that are posted on social networking sites.
Personally, I stopped writing daily blogs because I started working on a book. However, I hit a major writer’s block and haven’t written in a long time. I need some encouragement there. Hits on my blog went from around 200 per day, down to around 30 per day because of all of these factors. I will keep you all posted with some blogs this week to see what happens. Maybe it will make a comeback!
=robin
This seems like something our staff would pull off
I think we would need Matt Brock back first though…
Robin Steele 