Tim King Leadership

 Just some ramblings. I have been off the grid for the last few months, life just happens. Work and projects just take over. In recent times I have taken on a new project that is taking more of my time and focus than I have been used too for many years. Steering it through people, who for the most part want the results but don’t necessarily want the change, is tiring to say the least. Many people can’t see the wood for the trees.   On the home front my wife is complaining that I am home in body only, my mind is still at work, still working through the details of my strategic plan. All in all it would seem that I have forgotten that needy people are just that, needy, and that they can drain you very quickly with their demands and expectations. It is time for me to step back and reassess, after all I like everyone else only have 24 hours in a day. I was reminded, this last weekend at church, that the most precious resource and gift that I can give someone is time, my tim...

I remember as a new Christian being invited into a Christian Coffee shop in the town where I grew up. It was clean and tidy, the table tops were all brightly painted in different colours,  but mainly yellow and scattered on top were a random selection of Christian tracts. Fish symbols and Christian posters proclaiming that there was but 'One Way' to heaven were everywhere. The music playing out of the stereo was The Bill Gather Trio or Dolly Parton singing Gospel. The crockery, was a mixed assortment of coffee mugs, donated by keen supporters of this outreach to the unsaved sinners and ungodly people living in the city. The coffee was a local brand heavily mixed with chicory. In all the years the Coffee Shop operated, I never saw a non-Christian go in and I never heard of a person coming to faith through having coffee there. I never really understood its purpose. Fast forward to today, when I was asked recently, to advise on helping a local community church open a c...