Today I got a great opportunity to have some fun with all the Flamingo Road Church Team. Our Lead Pastor, Troy Gramling took us on a journey to better understand what is required to be a leader, to have some challenges and also to have some fun. The day included a field trip to a nice park on the highest Davie Area, getting some pictures, that illustrates our Ethos, answering (or trying to answer) some fifth grade questions, voting, driving to a Hallandale Beach Campus, Decorating a big Cookie, finding who was a “Mysterious Santa”, driving to the Aventura Mall, seeking for some stores, and finally we went all together to watch the movie “Fred Claus”… I learned some interesting things about how we act and react when we face pressure, challenge and we develop sympathy or other feelings as we work with a team… interesting day!
One of the things that is surprising to me today, is the low value that many people assign to their own promises. Teenagers don't believe their parents, because they never fulfill their promises; Couples say "I'll stand by you forever" and few months later they walk on the opposite direction; politicians make promises to earn votes, and once the election is done, they forgot about it. I remember one of the first things I learned from my grandmother it was the value of my word. "A gentleman always fulfill his promises, a man with no word has no honor" and I learned to live by that principle. Few weeks ago, I was having a discussion with one of the leaders on the youth ministry at Flamingo Road Church about some technical difficulties we were experiencing during the broadcasting of our Student Service online, and I challenged him to fix the failures, so if he would complete the task with no errors, I will do my hair like him... (He had a Mohawk haircut with ...
Ah..that's so sweet that you snapped pix of that great day. You guys had the best pix of our values!
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