This morning has less blogging time, but I have finished my movie review, the first assignment for my TEEM class on Pauline letters. I have done the practice quizzes one more time--I've been doing them over and over in the hopes that I'll do well on the quiz that will begin today's class.
We have another quiz tomorrow, and I haven't done any practice for that one. So tomorrow may be a light blogging day too, as I practice and practice. I have not taken a quiz for course credit since undergraduate school. Of course, I've taken quiz after quiz as part of HR training--those quizzes that you can take over and over again so that you can continue to be employed.
Each quiz counts for 10% of the course grade. My inner good girl wants to make an A. My pragmatic older self knows that whatever grade I make will be fine. I'm not even sure if TEEM classes show up on a transcript.
And then, part of me wonders why I care about my official record. Am I going to do more graduate work? Maybe--and that's why I care.
Yesterday's TEEM training was a workshop on stewardship. When I first heard about the workshop, I felt a bit of despair. I've already had so much stewardship training. But it was a great workshop. We talked about a much broader vision of stewardship: what do we value? How do we protect what we value? It's far more than money, budgets, and a finance team.
I've been part of small churches, with attendance below 50 members, so these are not concepts that are new to me. In a very small church, one can't assume that others will pick up the slack, unlike in a church that has over 100 members in the pews on Sunday.
Our workshop leader, Tim Brown, was both compelling and entertaining. We had worship in the middle of the day, followed by Indian food. It was good to have that long break.
Let me bring this writing to a close so that I can get some breakfast before the day begins. Onward!
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