What does the future hold?

It’s been a long time since I have written. Funny, I think that is how I started my last post.

I am finishing my MBA now. I start my last 8-week class Monday. This is the capstone course in this program, so I anticipate being overwhelmed. My thoughts though ironically are not on the course work ahead of me, but rather on the next academic endeavor I have decided to take. The Doctor of Education degree.

I started looking at what kind of work I can do with this education. As it turns out, I can do anything I want to in higher education or corporate America. I have battled though today with thoughts about self-advancement. my selfishness and ego had to be slapped back into check. I found myself reading discussion posts on a popular church sound oriented discussion board. I often doubt my knowledge level and adequacy to perform the tasks God puts before me. But as I read these posts and the response to them by "professionals", I was overwhelmed not by the feeling that I knew more then them, but that why wasn’t I being put in a position where my knowledge level was recognized. Instantly, God reminded me that if we seek man's approval we will find it, but what matters is serving God and His approval of our actions.

I pray that as I increase my knowledge that God grants me the wisdom to know how to use it and the humility to remain effective.

A New Star

as a proud father, it is my job to boast from time to time on the behalf of my children. Kaylah has been performing at various women's ministry events as of late. Word of mouth advertising is the most powerful form of marketing. The VP of spiritual life, Rob Jackson, approached me and asked if Kaylah would sing in the Campus Church service. Kaylah and Rob's daughter are friends through sunday school at Thomas Road and his wife is acquaintances with my wife through various women's ministry events, hence the word of mouth advertising.

Anywho, Kaylah performed wonderfully in front of nearly 4000 college students. We had a photographer from the school take some pictures for us and they are posted at www.flickr.com/photos/kevinpoole

More to come soon, classes are completed here at the University so time should free up in order to get back on track with this blog. Enjoy the pictures. Video stream to come.

Burden of Responsibility

As we get older, our responsibility grows. i knew that coming to college, getting married, having kids etc. What I never considered was the resposiblity I have in menotrship as a manager of booming adults. Those that work for me are fresh out of highschool in most cases and have no idea of what this thing called college and independence is going to do to them. At a Christian school, it is easy to think that all these kids have their lives in order, figured out, and ready for the next step. It is not until you find a way to their inner emotions that you realize they are like everyone else, scared to death about what is to come.

As a "father" figure and mentor in part to these young people, ironic coming from a 25 year old, I am blazingly aware of my influence on them. some of them I have influenced for the better, and some I have not. It pains me to think that i have lead any of them away from where they should be, and shame on me if I ever think that I am a the prodigal father when they come to enlightenment of their follies.

Pray for me as I work here and as I struggle to be a leader. Even as I am writing this and thinking about my children, i'm terrified of the example I must set for all of them. Only by the Grace of God will I complete it.

Long time no Posts

Good evening everyone. Its been a long time since I have last written. October to be exact. There has not been a sole reason for this.

I did have a moment back in october or november where I doubted if I wanted to blog anymore at all. I have gone through a couple of Job interviews in the last year. Each time, I not intenttionally looking to leave LU. However, we as a family decided to go where God would have us go, no matter where that might be. For reasons we may never know, God chose to close the door each time and has kept us here in VA.

In that time, I have grown alot. I graduated college, started my MBA, continued to grow the technical production department at LU, and paid down some debt to turn around and get backc into it. But in all that has happend in 2005, I have learned about contentment. I better understand my selfish desires and my selflessness as my role as father and husband.

I dont know what is in store for this year. Already some prospects have come up in conversations that may take me on the road more. We at LU are also on the verge of starting this degree for audio engineering and productions as a whole. Sponsorships are becoming available and the ball has started rolling on some other things that would make 2006 a most exciting year.

Pray for us all this year. Kaylah is about one and a half years from starting school, madison is out of control, and work is getting more and more challenging as we grow larger. There is much on our plate this year.