He's ba-ack! Just got home a bit ago from the Search Party 2002 conference, and first thing I did when I got home was check under the house for standing water. Sure enough, the water, it was standing. Deep. Fortunately (I guess) the sump pump was handy, having been in use recently (much rain in Missouri the past two weeks), so now it's pumping away, even as we blog.
Two, or maybe three, quick observations about SP02 before I log off: 1.) It was fascinating to meet the people behind the blogs: folks like Andrew Jones, Karen Ward, Allan Creech, and others. 2.) Thursday morning's presentation by Chuck Smith Jr. about establishing an environment in which community can occur (he didn't talk establishing community per se, but an environment that might foster authentic community within the church), really resonated with me. 3.) I participated on an "e-tools" panel, and was rather disturbed at how unwilling some in the conference seemed about embracing online technologies for spreading the Christian message. More about this and other stuff later. Time to go check on the sump pump.