April 6 thought

You may have heard of Mark Burnett. He is the creator of the shows “Survivor” and “Apprentice.” He recently wrote a book titled “Jump In!” In this book he outlines his philosophy of business. He says: “Nothing will ever be …perfect, and nothing can be totally planned. The best you can hope for is to be about half certain of your plan and know that you and the team you’ve assembled are willing to work hard enough to overcome the inevitable problems as they arrive. And arrive they will. The only thing you can be certain of is that the problems you have not thought of will eventually crop up—and always at the worst times.”

The week that won't quit...

Monday On the way to work I responded to an unconscious child to back up an ambulance. I arrived to find my medic hooking up a monitor and saying, “Greg this kid is gone” sure enough the child was beyond resuscitation efforts. I told the mom, “I’m sorry” and held her as she cried, I took physical punches from the grandmother who thought I had not done enough.

Tuesday- No big deal, but annual renewal time on insurance for all the ambulances as well as a meeting with the fire marshal to try to persuade him to allow the church to occupy a new location.

Wednesday- Scaffolding falls from the I/430 bridge taking three workers with it. We finally devised a plan to recover the bodies of the workers and low and behold it works, however we only recover one body. I am on the barge taking it back home to the Yacht Club, when we round a corner and hit heavy flow in the river (after all we are flooding) the barge starts taking on water and sinking and we cant make any head way. We call the Club for a pump and after some work finally pump it out and make it home after about 10 hours.
Thank you to Robert our youth Pastor who handled the Wednesday night study while I finished up the recovery.



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Thursday- Tornadoes hit our area. We coordinate search and recovery for four cities. I finally get to bed at 4AM. Hoping that Friday breaks the streak.





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Friday- All is well till the afternoon I hear that unit 422 was just hit by a city bus. Both crew members and three passengers go to the hospital. (all not critical)













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Saturday we will meet to discuss the river rescue/recovery called a “hot wash” this is a normal procedure. I am just hoping that this streaks finally ends.

What a week I thank God that they are not all like this.

A new Blogger

Lacinda is a member of NLR and now a Blogger. Welcome Lacinda!



Check her out!
http://lacindapage.blogspot.com/

I dont think you have to be a blogger to be a part of this group, but it helps:-)

Three more to the Youth Group

Sunday Taylor, Chandler and Justin all officially became a part of the Youth Group. Debbie had a special program complete with a video look back of them growing up. Guys we are proud of you!!

Youth Sunday

Sunday was youth Sunday. I think this was one of the best yet. Way to go Team 180!!

Easter 2008

Great Easter service, I always enjoy when we get together!
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I dont know what I was thinking

Don't ask how I got there, but did you know that this kind of whirlpool in the river can spin an 18' Sea Ray in a circle with ease? I didn't, but do now ;-)

Flooding in Arkansas

Maybe you have heard that Arkansas has had a bit of a flood. Living on a boat is great the water did not get in our house, but we did float up over 6 feet. The first picture is of our "taxi" to get to work Friday AM. We woke to the parking lot in knee deep water(we had already moved the cars to a hill) the Harbor Master took us to the cars via party barge at over 300,000 cubic feet per second, a little over 6 miles per hour current.
The second picture is from our dock looking at the parking lot. We have not lost electricity or water, and have not been afraid. The water is moving so fast it sounds like rain at night if you leave the door open. It has been an experience for us all, probably one of those reasons we moved to the water in the first place:-)


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You got to be kidding!

Can you believe these actual cosmetic products recently pulled from the shelves in Singapore. Seems many are trying to use Jesus as a good luck charm. This may be absurd, but I wonder what areas we are doing the same thing in, but maybe not as obvious.