Jeffrey C. Long

I remember my first latte. A pretty remarkable feat given the proliferation of espresso stands. But I lived in King County 20 years ago when Starbucks was just getting its start in downtown Seattle. I was still going to school at Northwest College in Kirkland, studying to be a pastor. Newly married, living in […]

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Many years ago I was involved in my first church plant, pastoring Columbia Basin Mennonite Community. I bring to every job a passion to be absorbed in the information pertinent to my field and this ministry was no exception. I studied, and I wrote notes… and I studied, and I wrote notes… and […]

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I’m sure there are many of you like myself who have stacks and stacks of books spread out between office and home. This has always been a problem for me, even when I wasn’t ministering. I get an idea in my head, think about a book to pull off the shelf or buy […]

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One of the tricks found in Getting Things Done is to keep a completely flat file structure. No subfolders. I have found that this has really helped me both digitally and physically. I still have some degree of nesting going on in that I have some labeled “worship lists” “worship teaching,” […]

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