Thoughts on the Wisconsin Weekend:

It’s so hard to judge how a weekend of candidacy has gone when it is your first time ever candidating any where. I went into this weekend not too sure of why I came out here. Yes, I know that part of the reason was to interview for this job. However, even before leaving, I felt quite dissettled about going out to Wisconsin.

It was a good experience. This is a church with a lot of possibility, but I’m not sure that I am the one to carry it to where they need to go. Honestly, God has done a lot in the church to carry it to where it is today. Over the past year, God provided them with a facility for under $250,000 that had been an Assembly of God church.

Problem: Old church building... old church building feel. I guess it was good for the church and they got a lot out of it, I’m just not too sure I feel about that. Now, I know this seems superficial, but there are a few considerations with this.

When I had been in talks with the Senior pastor, he had informed me that the youth had their own wing of the church, which is an accurate statement. However, they are convinced that by giving the teens the dark, windowless, basement, back corner of the church is giving teens prime space. It is quantity space and there is a lot of potential... but it’s not quite quality space. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an area with possibility. Maybe I’m just being negative.

The people where pretty good. I stayed with an awesome family of super genuine people. I had some great conversations with my host home, even saw their Deluxe Miracle Jesus action figure (with glowing hands, 5 loaves, 2 fish, and an urn to turn water into wine...).

So I leave Wisconsin with questions. I’m still unsure as to what I’m supposed to be doing. I guess there are more details to post, but I’ll post them after I have some further experience with another place.