June 18 – “Two out of three”

Yesterday was one of those odd little “deal with small issues that could become large issues” kind of work days.  Great fun.  Requires creativity, ingenuity, patience, and many, many texts and phone calls.

First I had to work with FaceBook to figure out how to change the church’s page to allow someone else to be an administrator of the page.  Apparently that’s the only way for someone to start a FaceBook Live broadcast from the page.  Why is that needed?  There are hypothetical situations where Chris and I are not in town and a substitute preacher is on tap.  Someone needs to be able to keep the broadcast going in our absence.  It took me quite a while to track down the right command prompts.  The details in the Google search were slightly different in real life.  But it is done and now Lauren can use her own phone to do the broadcast.  Check.

Next, we are trying to figure out how to set up a calendar both online and among the key personnel for tracking retreat center usage.  I think the one between the individuals will be fairly simple (for someone who knows what he is doing).  Adding it to the website may be another thing altogether.  I tried to update the calendar that is on the website now.  It looked like it was working fine, but suddenly it notified me that a critical error had occurred.  No idea what that error might be.  It affected the month of June.  July looks fine so far.  Guess I’ll take another stab at that one after a while.  Or better yet, I already notified our web master Jennifer.  Maybe she can figure out what havoc I wreaked.

Next I received some texts from Cathy.  She was at the church with Mark, our plumber.  He was there to install a water shutoff valve so we can get the ice maker hooked up when the new refrigerator is delivered next week.  Problem was, he couldn’t get the water to the building shut off.  Apparently the valve at the building was broken.  I directed them to where I though the shut-off was for the whole building, but that wasn’t working, either.  I started texting around to see if anyone I could find knew what to do.  Robert verified that we were looking in the right place.  Doug came out and helped in the search.  Finally, after the search had lasted from 9:30 to around 1, Cathy called her son-in-law, our esteemed Handyman Ed, for his ideas.  He came out and within thirty seconds had the water shut off.  I guess they just weren’t turning the valve at the street far enough.  Or maybe they weren’t holding their tongues in the right position.  Whatever the reason, the job is done.  And Mark even offered to come back another time and replace the valves he found that were broken.  Check.

Ephesians 4:2 says, “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”

Father, thank you for gifting Seaside with people so willing to step in and help.  Bless Lauren and Ed and Cathy and Mark and Doug and Bob and Robert and Jennifer and Shawn and anybody else who had a hand in the team effort yesterday.  Amen.