A Nice Day of Connecting

Yesterday I attended the Mars ministerium meeting at Glade Run Presbyterian Church on route #8. We planned the Friday Lenten luncheons series that will take place at the Mars UP church. We also talked about the Easter Sunrise service scheduled for 6:30 AM at the Mars Home for Youth. It's a good group of pastors who , encourage one another when feeling low and support one another in prayer. A couple of them are feeling exhausted and ready for a break. (Note: we clergy do tend to be workaholics.) It's interesting for me to sit back and realize what some of them are going through and how they feel about what the do. There were times I felt the same way. It was good way back when to be reminded to do some "self-care" if I wanted to be more effective in the long run.

From there I had some photos printed at Giant Eagle, and then went to the Chamber of Commerce networking luncheon. They are fun. It's interesting to hear how business people represent themselves to the public and to one another as they have 60 seconds to get their message across. I thanked them for their support of singing valentines and circulated two photo albums of pictures of the people we delivered the singing valentines to. (Here are a couple of more photos. Click photo to enlarge.)

Later Dee and I went to Barnes and Nobel and hung out, did some reading and had a coffee. I looked at some books recommended at the luncheon earlier in the day by Jeff Gitomer. He writes about how to sell and present your best foot forward. Good stuff. I have decided I'm going to work on a series of 60 spots for the Bogmeisters to use at the luncheons when I have my turn to represent the group and say what we do. Some of the people there are creative in their approach, and I like that. I'll see what I can come up with rather then the way I've been doing it. On the other hand, some of the people there say the exact thing every week (since there are new people in attendance each week too) and it's good to be reminded, BUT why not be creative and say something that hooks them, scratches where they itch, or makes them want to hear more or even tell someone else about "the Bogmeisters."

By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but our Greater Cranberry Men's Barbershop Chorus is going top sing the National Anthem at a Pirates' game at PNC park on July 19 (a Sunday) at the 1:35 game with the SF Giants. Cool huh? We have a special code number for people who want to get a discount on tickets for the game. (We'll have to sell 350 tickets but all people have to do is call the Pirates, use our special code, and we'll get the credit. Also, we're hoping to make it a "Cranberry Day" event and have organizations purchase tickets through our code number.) More later