Posted by David Carroll
Well, I have been enjoying getting a little better every day. Not great, just a little better, Thank You Lord!
And it’s about time too. Although I stepped down from teaching (for the last five years) Adult Couples Sunday School to take a break and get really recovered physically and spiritually over the next year or so, I need some sort of outlet to express my Spiritual gift of teaching.
So I have a commitment to teach a ten week Creation Science Course at Church starting Wednesday, January 25, 2006. I have always enjoyed teaching this course and the class has grown each year (87 last year). So In that regard I am pumped.
Neither I am worried about getting the material prepared; this will be the sixth time I have taught this series so a little refresher and a listen to last year’s presentation should be enough to get me ready each Wednesday night.
What I am worried about is my stamina. Remember just a week ago I could not sit in a normal chair for ten minutes without extreme neck and shoulder pain. That’s better this week, maybe I can go 20 minutes. Lord help my muscles and damaged tissue heal up.
Related to that, I may need to arrange for a special chair and table to sit at during the presentation. I know, the presenter sitting down during the presentation is not good but it will have to do for the first few weeks.
I’ve got Bob Martin to agree to help me set-up all the equipment each week. (Thank you Lord for providing Bob)
I still need a secretary to get there early and take the roll.
Warning: Technical stuff ahead but serious enough to warrant prayer requests.
- I have to update my notes and some new software I have been developing over the past three years, that allows me to create and annotate a Word Document that serves as my presentation notes as well as a source document for another presentation time driver to display my notes on one screen (Tablet PC) while synchronizing the PowerPoint slides on the other projector screen and giving a visual indicator as to where you are in the presentation. Anyway, other than creating special PowerPoint slides for illustrations. Nothing more is used than Microsoft Word with my add-in code prepared using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. All of the rest of the required PowerPoint slides are created automatically.
This should be fun and I think I have enough lead time but If I run last minute, I’ll be a nervous wreck and that added on top of all my other problems will be bad news for my being able to do an excellent job.