Mike Vogel blogs here about stuff that may or may not be relevant and insightful.
I just got a new Macbook Pro while I was in america and WOW!!!! it is the most amazing machine ever built!!! its amazing….. totally in love and inderal 40 mg I can wait to start recording and getting my songs down…. I have about…..6 or so to work on…. love it!!!!!
MV
Well I landed yesterday back in Sydney from 2 weeks in the US. I was home for my sisters wedding and little bit more. As soon as I landed in Baltimore I went to Denny’s with one of my best mates Ron. I got home around 3:30 in the morning and got settled and then tried to go to bed….little inderal 20 mg did I know that sleep was not happening… I layed restless for a few moments and I was still wide awake… So I did what any normal person would do…. I got on facebook… and finally around 6 O’clock in the morning I started getting ready for the day. I was leave for New York city around lunch time to Get Dave, Beci and Brooklyn Wakerley. I was bringing them down to my stomping grounds to show them around. I went over 50 hours without sleep from my last sleep in Sydney until I was in the Wakerley’s hotel room at 1 in the morning. MY trip was wonderful though…. I went to DC and baltimore… I made it to Ocean City Maryland where the waves were smaller than the ones i make in the bath tub (no joke)…..(not one word of a lie)…. My favorite thing though was well…. My second favorite thing was hanging out with my nephew almost everyday…. although a lot of people thought my sister and I were married…. and then my favorite thing was dancing with my little sister at her wedding…. It was one of those moments you will never forget in life…. n e way that sums up about all I wanna say to you all….. Have a fantastic week!!!!
MV
Well my not so little sister got married this weekend to a wonderful guy… imuran 150 mg I was honoured to be home for it and to take part in it. I could not imagine a better person for my sister. Congratulations Chris and Bek.
I really wanted to give a speech at this wedding, since it was my sister, I felt I should share some words of wisdom…I refrained from grabbing the mic, but the day after I was coming up with some really good material…like… I always wanted brothers growing up and now I have 2, cus back in the day my sisters were tired of me beating them up…and I…well I was tired of being dressed like a girl…that was a golden one…just one of the many things that entered my head…
N e way…it was incredible time with family and friends and it was awesome watching my dad give away his little princess to an amazing man who is deserving of her…check out my facebook page for a pic of rebecca and I dancing… Love you guys!!!!
Ps. I’m the last one in the family to go…and I’m a man….at least sometimes…
MV
Well I was just reading tweets from “The Leadership Summit” and I saw a quote that said “be the change that you want to see in the world”. Not too long ago…. as in a couple months ago I wrote a song called be the change for Kidsong World ‘09…So I thought I would post the lyrics… (maybe i can get the song up in the near future)
Be The Change - words and music by Mike Vogel
Looking out my bedroom window
See a world that’s flashing by my eyes
Everything I know is changing
Here for now but gone in the blink of an eye
Out on the streets there is a need
Broken hearts to fix and mouths to feed
The sad and lonely need our love
And the answer is in us
I can be the change I wanna see
Live my life to fill a need
Give everything I am to change the world
Live my life for something more
Something that’s worth fighting for
I can be the change, be change
I can change my world
In this world I can make a difference
Live my life for significance
I’m not backing down or giving up
Cus the answer lives is us
I can be the change I wanna see
Live my life to fill a need
Give everything I am to change the world
Live my life for something more
Something that’s worth fighting for
I can be the change, be change
I can change my world
As we walk down our streets
We can be the change we want to see
Be your hands and be your feet
Be the answer to a need
We can be the change, Be the change
We can change our world, we can change our world
….well theres my song… more on that later
MV
I love this quote that I saw ok twitter one day from Joel A’bell who is an executive pastor at Hillsong church. It said “if you’re too big to setup the stage, you’re too small to stand on it”. How true is that??? I can’t stand all these people talking about the big things they wanna do for God, but when it comes to doing what’s in their hand right now they are too good for it.
When i first started team leadingi imitrex online pharmacy got pit on the 115pm service for allstars and on a good week we would have 7 kids. It killed me cus I wanted to all these awesome games and I had so many ideas, but for a whole year I took that service and it was my baby!!! And at the end of the year I was asked to pioneer voltage which is our preteen ministry. I look after many leaders and a lot of students, but it never would have happened if I wasn’t faithful with 7 kids. If you’re faithful with the small you can be faithful with the large. Some people need to get that…
MV
So it’s Sunday night and my brain is on overdrive!!! I just got finished doing like 6 services or something like that over the weekend and pretty much my mind is just racing thinking about different things and now it’s time to let some it out….so here we go
I was thinking earlier about the difference in leadership and pastoral leadership, or maybe the mindshift from leadership to pastoral leadership. I can see it in my head and I can see where it is in people and ministries, and I’ll try my best to wrap words around it. Leadership is influence. To lead is to have followers and take them somewhere, it’s pioneering, it’s a journey. And when I think about pastoral leadership it’s that, but you’re moving from a team or people and going to a state or engulfing yourself in something. In pastoral leadership you’re not just taking people somewhere but you’re looking after them while you take them, you’re a conflict manager, you’re all thing to all people when you step into this role. It’s a different ball game from leadership. It’s more responsibility…if you choose to take it.
I bring this imitrex no prescription all up because I was thinking about one of my leaders who I want to take to from a leadership position to a pastoral leadership position. I want him to take on more because he was made for this. I want him to own a ministry. In saying that, there is a level to go up in that mindsets need to be changed, perspective needs to be changed. When people step into this they need to think big picture for a group of people, and also leaders. Caring for both and pastoraly caring for both while taking them somewhere. My perspective is changing as I write and I’m getting new ideas and how to do things. I want to be the best stuard of what God wants me to do, which is lead kids ministries, leaders and kids. I’m sure I’ll have more thoughts on this and maybe it will be more concise. But there it is for now…sorry if there are any typos, I’m typing this on my iPhone so I’m not sure what it will look like….much love
MV
This past weekend our “Big point” in hillsong kids was “everyone has a part to play in the body of christ”. The church is massive whether you look at the local church or the global church. Now everyone has a part to play an they are all quite different. What happens if we don’t play???
Think about a soccer team, what happens if the goalie sits on the ground the whole game, what if they don’t show up??? Think about a human pyramid. imitrex mail order What if one of the people in the human pyramid decided to leave it would all come tumbling down.
You might think that your part in church isn’t a great role and it might not be the most glamerous but it’s your part and you make it what it is!!!! The church cannot do it without you!!!! We all have a part to play in the church and we need to make sure we do it with everything we have !!!!
Well earlier today I was thinking about church culture in healthy and growing churches. I heard an analogy about how leaders in strong vibrant church cultures are like ducks. A bit weird i thought until the heard the analogy….( I was a bit disappointed that it had nothing to do with the Mighty Ducks). Ducks above the surface are calm, cool, and collected. They are stress free and there are no signs of them being frantic. Under the surface they are the opposite… Ducks feet move very quickly and they do everything they need to in order to stay afloat and move.
In the church world that is how we have to be. The church is about others and when we meet people they don’t want to see the stressed, worn out look on our faces. We need to be smiling and warm. People deserve our best and they won’t get imitrex lowest prices it unless we learn how to move fast under the surface, but calm, cool and collected on the outside. Yes, there are things to get done, but it cannot come before the people we are there serve. Now lets jump in a pond and act like ducks… QUACK
MV
Well Sunday night concluded our week of Hillsong Conference. It was the best yet and I can’t wait for next year to see how we will raise the bar. Our senior pastors have graciously given the staff monday and tuesday off and it has been an incredible imitrex generic name time thus far to chill out, hangout with some people and relax from a hard working week. My day today is filled with some domestic things like shopping and cleaning…. maybe even cooking, but I will be posting something later which actually might be relevant to peoples lives. See ya in a few hours
MV
So the other day I was teaching scripture at my primary school in Penshurst and I was looking at some school pictures in the office. I noticed that 4 of my students from last year were the 4 school captains. I immediately started thinking about my legacy.
I loved that class, they were some of the best kids you could find. I love the class the I have as well (just so you know). Now I don’t read too much of John Maxwell, but he definitely said it right when he said “everything rises and falls on leadership”. I am not taking full responsibility for these kids being in the position that they are in, but i know i had something to do with because of what I am called to do and what I do. I know that I am called to be a leader and to raise up leaders. I know that I invested into those imitrex generic due kids and fed them with everything I had.
I remember when Robert Fergusson lectured in one of our classes at Bible college and talked about when he preaches he doesn’t just preach to the people in the audience, but the people that the audience will preach to and influence and so on and so forth. And thats what I did with those kids. I gave them something that not only is for them, but for the people they come in contact with. Its generational leadership and thats how I want to be remembered. I want to see the people I input to go farther than I can and will. I want to do whatever I can to get people to the height of their potential. Its not about me, It’s about who I am doing it all for. That’s how I want to be remembered….. What about you??? What legacy will you leave???
MV