Rick Warren - from Saddleback Church and Purpose-Driven Church/Life Fame - used to say that they moved so often as a church that you could worship with them if you could find them!! In a similar way you can meet me at my office if you can find my offices current location. In our three and half years as a church I have had an office downtown at First Baptist Church (our planting church), an office at Bonavista Baptist Church (our closest sister church), home offices in our old house and in two different rooms in our current house, there was serious talk of renovating our garage to become garage-fice and now I have moved into an office at Alberta Bible College where I do some adjunct teaching and coordinate the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program.The nice thing about this recent move is that I am able to get my anthropology, linguistics and TESOL resources out of storage in the garage. It is an indication that I am officially an uber-nerd that I found it quite emotional to go through and pull out each book. I can recall each class, conference or research project that was connected with the books.
I am hoping that this office will be conducive to the writing and administrative portions of pastoring - it is quiet and inspiring as I am surrounded only by my books. This is also where I will work on my PhD (September is coming quickly) and some of the free-lance writing I do for government and private sector organizations.
I plan on keeping a study in my home where I will house my dictionaries, concordances and inter-linear bibles. This will be where I prepare my messages. I think it is important to have a place where my kids see me at work and especially where they see me digging deep into the Word of God.
As always, I also plan to be a regular at the Starbucks in the SW corner of Calgary. So if you want to get together we can meet at my house, up in the northwest at the college or at a coffee shop.
Ehkosit,
Migwec
