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It occurred to me recently that I haven’t posted about my MAP Meetings with Peter in a while. Sorry. I forgot. The meetings are still going well but writing about them is basically just re-writing the notes that are already going into my MAP Journal so it’s not very productive. So unless anything unusual [...]

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Things are still just calming down here but I’ve managed to get my assignments done so now I have time to catch up on my MAP Journal. Peter and I had a MAP Meeting with Peter on Tuesday the 8th but I still haven’t journaled it from the notes yet so here goes:
Spiritual and Personal [...]

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On Tuesday I had my sixth MAP meeting with Peter. This was the last meeting we’ll have this year. Here’s how things are going:
Personal and Spiritual Development
My schedule kind of went out the window on Monday night. I installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and I was tinkering with that until about 4 in the [...]

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Thanks to my fondness for my own bed this meeting has been a long time coming so Peter and I had a lot to catch up on. So here’s what we discussed:
Spiritual and Personal Development
Since our last meeting I’ve cleared away my old computer, which was just sitting in my room taking up space. I [...]

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I had to reschedule this week’s meeting with Peter from Tuesday (the usual) to today. It would have been fine if I didn’t miss it. The meeting completely slipped my mind. Peter was trying to call me but I was still in bed. I felt terrible when I realised what I’d done. I phoned Peter [...]

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Peter and I just had our fourth MAP Meeting. It went quite well. Mostly we talked about my preaching on Sunday. I gave Peter one of the review forms from the MAP manual to fill out after I preached on Sunday. There was no rush with the form but Peter had it filled in and [...]

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Peter and I had our third MAP Meeting at Peter’s house. We discussed how I was doing in each of my goals.
Spiritual and Personal Development
I think I’ve discovered a way to have daily quiet time that works for me. Now I am having my quiet time in the mornings, I tried going to be before [...]

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I’ve written up a history page for the church website, which you can see here. I used a book Peter gave me at our first mentoring meeting as a reference. I’ve also asked Sam what he’d think about having a section on the site for profiles or testimonies. I think the site needs more content.
Last [...]

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Peter and I had our second MAP meeting today where we discussed the goals I have set and how I was progressing in each of them.
Personal and Spiritual Development: I find it hard to say much to God in prayer during quiet times. Peter says I don’t have to worry about filling silence and reminded [...]

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I had my first meeting with Peter today. He picked my up at around 10:30 and we went to his house in Cahir. The meeting lasted about an hour and forty-five minutes and afterwards, Christine cooked us some lunch, always a plus. We discussed what the MAP was for and the various areas I would [...]

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