This is something that I shared with the PH champs last weekend. I got some pretty good feedback and thought that it would be good to post. NOTE: its now 34 from 03/05/09 to the end of the year not 36. Also regardless of what people say I’m not artsy it was a box + mentos + ribbon. That’s all.
I’ve only got about five minutes so I’m going to cut to the chase go into deep and meaningful mode and just talk about what I wanted to talk about. All I want to talk about is the number 36. God told me about this number on the Sunday night after LG after our discussion about stewardship. This number over the last week has really impacted and changed the way I think and do things and has really simplified LG for me.
The significance of this number is that in 36 weeks 2009 will be over. That from today on you only have 36 more weekends to grow, to nurture, to affirm, to encourage, to rise up, to make any sort of difference in your LG. That in 36 weeks we would have either let 36 opportunities slip by or we would have used 36 opportunities to the fullest. In 36 weeks 2009 will be no more. Since we are on the subject of numbers here are some stats that give the number 36 more impact. In this team there are 11 in total, three of which are planned to take a more supervisory roles for each university as we wish to rise up student leaders (Chris, Lisa and Leon), of the remaining eight there are five that are graduating at the end of 2009 (Rosie, Mae, Julie, Sop and myself), this leaves three (Tim, Trung and Tash). This means we really have to uses the remaining weeks to rise up the next generation. Whether we are champs, LGL, UL whatever we each have 36 opportunities to make a change in our LG
For each of you I have a gift. Under the cover of the box there is a note written there which reads ‘This is how many weeks left to make the most of every opportunity’. In the box there are 36 mentos. Each mentos represents one week, one opportunity. I’m going to ask you to do a really simple task and that is as each week passes by I want you to take one mentos out, eat it, bin it, I don’t care. As you do take time to reflect on how you have used that one week, that one opportunity to build something great in your LG.
There is a second part to the gift, a picture of your LG. Each week you take a mentos out and think about the week that just past it’s these people that you are analysing, critiquing, scrutinizing, examining, and breaking down every part of LG for. It’s these lives that we are using every week, every opportunity to grow, mature, rise up and build into something that will last the test of time.
As I said before there are 36 mentos in the box but today it has been cut down to 35, so take it home, take out a mentos and as you do, reflect, think, analysis how you used this one week, this one opportunity to build your LG into the Godly community that we are strive for and how you have invested into the people in your LGs.
Hope all this made some sort of sense usually I suck at writing and it was written as I would have said it.
