Good People, Important Work, a Beautiful Day

Sheryl and Diane were game to pose for me this morning.
Two great ladiesI get to work with every day!

We started the day at work with a very small celebration. I brought in a box of Dunkin' Donut donut holes to celebrate the return of Diane Jones to the office after her honeymoon. Now she's Diane Jones-Dunham.  Sheryl Overstreet had been out some last week, tending to her husband, Ed, who had a pacemaker installed Thursday. So today everyone in the Lookout and Christian Standard staff was back at one time. Seemed to me like a good enough reason to eat donuts, don't you agree?

Tomorrow is our second deadline on a new production schedule for The Lookout and Christian Standard. We're giving four issues at one time to the printer, who will print and mail them all at one time. We had been mailing issues two at a time. Printing and mailing four at a time really saves on postage, and postage is every periodical publisher's big concern these days.

Our managing editor, Jim Nieman, already turned in one of this week's four issues last week. Yesterday he uploaded the second of the four, our April 8 issue in which we invite several church leaders to weigh-in on the attractional vs. missional discussion. I'm looking forward to seeing how readers respond.

Today he uploaded the April 15 issue, which examines the idea of elder governance, an adaptation of the Policy Governance model that some corporations and volunteer boards have adopted. It, too, should prompt some helpful discussions.

For the record, today ended in the high 70s, a glorious, sunny, summerlike day. As I left the parking lot today, I saw some guy, evidently from another office in the building, kneeling by a bed of daffodils to take a picture. I smiled and felt like less of a nerd for doing the same thing several days in the last week.