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Birthday Cards

Something I do as a youth pastor is send postcards to students. I try to send at least five personal, handwritten postcards to students each week. It doesn’t always happen, but it happens more often than not. I just want them to know that I care about them. I started doing this way back at the suggestion of my friend Bobby Moss, and it is something I love to do. If you are, or have been in my youth group, chances are you have received a postcard from me, and if you haven’t, someone is hiding them from you.

I also keep track of when each student’s birthdays is, and I send them a birthday card. They are simply a design I create and print on regular 4×6 photo paper and mail as a postcard. Each year I come up with a new design for the birthday card. So, instead of hoarding these graphics, I thought I would make them available to anyone that might want to use them. There are 6 different designs. I hope you can get some use from them. ZIP FILE

Your call is important to me… almost.

Phone call

I want to take your phone call, or read your email, but not always. It’s not that I don’t like you, but I can’t right now.

This is no secret to people who know me, but I struggle to focus on any one task at a time. I am so easily distracted from what I need to do. If you have ever done a DISC profile test, I am a high “I” personality. Getting things done is not as important to me as having fun and being with people. I know a lot of people who are like me, they struggle to focus and get things done, but often I feel alone surrounded by people who have it all together.

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