{"id":196,"date":"2011-10-18T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:07:36","slug":"to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson\/2011\/10\/18\/to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"To do list&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2011\/10\/to-do-list-managers-hive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-197\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2011\/10\/to-do-list-managers-hive.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2011\/10\/to-do-list-managers-hive.png 494w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2011\/10\/to-do-list-managers-hive-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To do list for a church planter in Sweden:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prepare sermon aka &#8220;talk&#8221; for Sunday<\/li>\n<li>contact those involved in the &#8220;celebration service&#8221; or &#8220;big gathering&#8221; aka Sunday service<\/li>\n<li>write a weekly devotion for the small groups this week.<\/li>\n<li>meet with the mother-church&#8217;s treasurer and the church plant&#8217;s new teasurer to work through the budget<\/li>\n<li>check emails<\/li>\n<li>after reading emails: write another to-do-list just for Covenant World Mission (take a survey, write a ministry report, update blog&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>eat lunch with people in the church plant<\/li>\n<li>make time for my bride<\/li>\n<li>make time for my wife and I to prepare for a child who is on his\/her way in 5 months<\/li>\n<li>have a &#8220;fika&#8221; aka go to a caf\u00e9 with a few misc. people connected with the church plant.<\/li>\n<li>check Facebook (see how people are doing, check the core-groups page and make another to-do-list )<\/li>\n<li>design a website<\/li>\n<li>try purchasing domain www.brunnen.se for a few weeks&#8230;no contact, pray, then call again..contact! \u00a0GREAT!! 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