I am used to regular deadlines. They go with the territory. Whatever the timeline you have to be ready to speak at the next event.
November 14/15 has been in the diary for sometime. It will be the first of many training days for potential facilitators of h+ Making Good Sense of the Bible programme that I will deliver. Bible Society have 55 booked in!
The pressure has been the last minute process of enabling the resources to be prepared, designed and printed. The steady work of the last few months has all needed to come together and inevitably last minute delays raised the temperature dramatically.
Last week the PowerPoint presentations for each session could finally be completed. I was supplied the last few pieces of artwork and video clips required, at last. The end result was more than satisfactory. Though and say it myself the end product is an impressive set of presentations.
But, despite having done this before I have spent three days attempting to package them for use by anyone on any computer. They just would not work. I ran out of ideas and knowledge despite extensive online searching. At the very last minute some suggestions followed seem to overcome the difficulty at least for playing on a Mac or Windows 7 computer. So they could be duplicated for the course. We will look for more solutions to ensure equal compatibility across all platforms in due course.
Meanwhile last minute checking the design of both handbooks has added to the challenge. They are being printed as I writ and delivered to me on Saturday! Deadlines only just met!
The exciting thing is the training next week. I have been responsible for devising the training programme and will deliver the lions share. It is a fantastic opportunity that should see this course beginning to roll out across the country. When I step back from the intentsity of the preparation and two days training it will be to begin planning more in 2012.
Please pray for me on Monday and Tuesday especially.
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