Kevin Presseault

This morning I received my passport application signed by my step-dad (THANKS!!) and rushed off to the passport office at 11:30am. Since it helped to speed up my application for the birth certificate, I decided to bring my flight and hotel confirmations with me just in case. I arrived at 12:05. They were serving number 173. I was 251. Luckily I brought a book! When they hit around number 210, a lady stood in front of the waiting crowd and announced that it will take a minimum of 15 business days for applications received today to be processed... UNLESS you happen to have confirmed travel plan documentation WITH YOU. Thankfully I did! AWESOME! The wait in line was about 2 hours. I did a lot of my course reading (I have a ten page paper due in March on this book "Future Faith Churches: Reconnecting with the Power of the Gospel for the 21st Century"). Finally my number came up. Again, I was SOOOO impressed with the employees of this government agency. The young lady who served m...

Just stumbled on this website http://www.ifjesushadawebsite.net . Very interesting stuff here on church websites and blogging. I particularly like his article on "Why Your Pastor Needs to Blog". I think I'll start using that as my reason for doing this :-)

Since I'm no longer the technical guru I was in my previous life, I figured the next best thing to being at Lotusphere was to check out the Dolphin Hotel in Second Life . Thanks to the information provided on Alain Lepofsky I checked out the keynote and got myself my free Lotusphere t-shirt. I know... once a geek, always a geek. :-) Oh by the way. If you're looking for me in Second Life my name is Kev Priestly. I know, not very original...

This week the United States started it's new policy requiring all air travelers coming into the country to have a valid passport. No other form of documentation is valid (except for a frequent flyer pass - which I'm not). I've known for quite awhile that this was coming and I figured that I was properly prepared... but... My passport expired at the end of October 2006. Normally it's a simple 20 days to get a new one so I didn't give it much thought. That is until I booked my flight to California to attend Saddleback Church's Small Group Ministry conference in February. I figured "No problem, I have tons of time!". So just before Christmas I went to our filling cabinet to dig out my birth certificate to send off the application for a new passport. But lo! There were only three certificates in the folder where we keep the important documents... that of my wife and kids. Mine was nowhere to be found! Again, I figured "No problem, I'll ju...

I thought this was hilarious! I love the D&D dice! Thanks Mac for sending me this one.

If any of my colleagues and friends are heading down to Orlando for Lotusphere 2007 this weekend I would LOVE to get a CULT shirt! I'd send money for shipping. I have a CULT shirt from 2000 to 2006... can't stop now! For any of my church friends who might be worried about what I'm after it's C ompletely U nofficial L otusphere T shirt :)

I just returned from Heritage College and Seminary . I just registered for my first semester there. It was a tad odd being back in a school... back in college I was a pretty awkward and geeky guy, lacking in a lot of self confidence. Funny how walking around, lost on a school campus, trying to find where you're supposed to register and find the appropriate information can bring back those old adolescent feelings of dorkiness :) This semester I wanted to start easing courses into my schedule so I'm only taking one class. Since it's the winter session the two prerequisites I need to take for of my Biblical courses are not available. I'll need to take those next September. This gave me only 4 courses to chose from. After talking with the advisor I chose to start with Ministry Foundations. Here's the blurb from the course catalog: This course is a foundational study of the theology and philosophy of the church and church leadership. Attention will be given to the biblic...