The Clock Keeps Ticking

Today I am blogging.  It has been seven days since my last blog.  That was meant to sound like a confession.  The pace this time of year is quite frenetic.  There is a litany of items that cry out for attention—at the same time.  But we toil on.

I am blogging before the beginning of the work day.  My evenings are consumed with other work.  Let’s see…the past few days have been sprinkled with an array of activities ranging from a school board meeting in Apache Junction to a Hispanic Pastors’ Meeting at the conference office.  The pastors’ meeting was significant since we officially launched our new Spanish-language family-focused magazine—Viva Hoy.  It is going to print in the next few days and then samples will be sent all across the nation.  I’m pretty excited.

The meeting in Apache Junction was encouraging.  Enrollment at the Adobe school which is sponsored by the local Apache Junction Church is looking very positive for the coming next year.  Budget will still be tight, but the commitment level of the church seems rock-solid.

Yesterday took me to downtown Phoenix to do some filming for a Couples’ Retreat at the Westin over Labor Day Weekend.  That was fun. Later on I conducted a teleconference with Saguaro Hills School administration to take one final look at next year’s staffing.  A School Board at the Maricopa Village School in Laveen concluded the work day.  It was be a busy day.

Today will consist of a Curriculum Review Committee with our two high schools followed by a very important State Tax Organization (STO) meeting with representatives from the state.  It is a critical meeting in our push to ensure the continued viability of the Arizona Adventist Scholarships, Inc., the parent Tax Scholarship Organization for our school system’s tax credit program.  We hope to have many of the specific policies that impact our organization clarified in order to make the process of helping our students more streamlined and more beneficial to the students.

My work day will end at a Desert Valley school board meeting in Tucson.  This is one of three conference elementary schools that are going through critical personnel transitions.  The calendar keeps moving and the pool is not deep, but I am still confident that God will make clear the right fit from the pool we have that the choice will become clear.   In the end I trust the program will be strengthened. (231.2)