Gidday, mates! (Been watching the Australian open…I love tennis!!!!) Anyway…

I have this unexplainable need to be organized as of late. Last night I spent about a lot of time organizing my email folders. Today I tackled the blogroll. I have become a blogrolling packrat…whenever I find a resource (blog, website, etc) that I find interesting, helpful, informative, I have been blogrolling it. So, today I took the time to organize my findings.

There are now three categories into which I will file my blogs. The categories are for my own sanity more than anything. My priority reading (when I am finally working full time and going to school full time and actively involved in ministry) will be the Friends & Family blogs.

These are the blogs of people that I actually know and have met/talked with face to face. These blogs I check pathologically. (If you don’t believe me, you can ask those who have sitemeter! I’ve been coined a “blog stalker” by one person…all in good fun, of course. Or at least I think it was…haha) These people are the people with whom I am walking out my life. I laugh with these people and cry with these people and am actively a part of their lives. If you want to get to know me, read these blogs. These are the people who are helping to shape me into me.

These are the blogs of people who are in the process of planting churches or who have planted churches. I read these blogs fequesntly, if not daily. I’ve become quite passionate about church planting and learning everything I can about the topic. I value learning by experience as much as learning by the book. I’ve learned a lot of what to do (and not to do) by reading these blogs over the past few months.

This one is pretty self-explanatory. I don’t necessarily check these blogs everyday, but when I do I glean leadership “tools” that I have found helpful.