Office Space

After working tirelessly for the family for almost six weeks to help them get geared up for the new school year in a new place--okay, maybe not tirelessly, but it did take a lot of work--I've finally been able to turn my attention to the office space in our house for the new church.

Among the early challenges in taming the monster that it had become was the nearly thirty boxes of books that needed to find homes on the shelves.

Thanks to an ingenious idea by Polly, the book shelves were situated back to back forming an aisle in the small book nook space in the office, so it holds six, rather than three, bookshelves.

I turned my Handy Man lazer eye on the proposed design and figured out a bracketing and bracing system to keep all the shelves (mostly) safely upright.

(I had visions of children playing hide and go seek in there and accidentally pushing or tipping a shelf over upon someone--yikes.)

Before last packing up the books, I had given away or donated several hundred books, so I have many empty shelves, still, and these are being used for different office supplies at present.

Meanwhile, there is room in the office for another person's desk, which is perfect since the new church plant and our current administration needs are involving Polly far too much in the day-to-day.

So, Gloucester County Church Plant, Inc., is on the lookout for an administrative assitant (20 hours per week or less, $15.00 per hour or so). If you know anyone, send him or her my way.

Meanwhile, no office set up would be complete without a hard drive crashing--and no, my files were not currently backed up. (The most recent version of the files I was able to find was February 2009.)

So, reinstalling software, files, and reconfiguring things like my appointment schedule from my phone and address book (they suffered in the transition as well because while they ordinarily synch with my laptop, in this case, the phone didn't recognize the computer and so the phone was erased. Groan.)

But thank God it is all behind me now, and I am not only backing up on site automatically every hour with a hard drive I have hooked into my system, I'm starting to use an offsite service (for a monthly fee) to back up my data as well.

Nothing like being naked, and then being dressed for Alaska the next day, right?

There is so much involved in church planting related to "starting an institution." For example, there is no money in the budget for an office for the first two years, so we are using my home office. This requires a township permit. Get the idea?

Thanks for praying for us in this still quite transitional time. Thank you for any donations you can make to the new church's budget. Or, send office supplies--they won't go to waste!

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