Some days just seem long. You've been sitting and working for an hour and a half and then you look at the clock and realize that it's only been 7 minutes and 34 seconds. You feel like you've worked a sixteen hour day.

And then some days just frankly are long. you may get up at 4:30 in the morning to be on the road at 5:00 to make a presentation to a ministerial association at 8:00. And you may have to give a talk in a different city (also not the on where you live) in the evening. Wait, did I just get a little literal for a hypothetical post?

Well yes. Yesterday I was on the road at 5 am to make it to McKenzie, TN before 8:00 for a presentation to the ministerial association. And yes, I did have to give a talk at a church in Germantown in the evening. So I did leave my house at 5:00 in the morning and finally made it back a little after 11:00 at night, with hardly a break anywhere in there.

Who would do this to me? Who would be so cruel? I can tell you. Allen McQueen.

That's right, Allen McQueen (above on far right) TCASK's youngest board member is the slave driver responsible for my endless driving, speaking, and meetings yesterday. And bless his heart, he did a great job!

Allen has been working as an unstoppable one man force on the Bethel College campus. When I arrived, he'd not only set up a meeting with the McKenzie Ministerial Association, he had meetings for us with three different professors, the campus chaplain, and the development office, not to mention a number of interested students. So let me tell you, we've gone from nothing (or actually only Allen) in Carroll County to having already scheduled the first National Weekend of Faith in Action 2006 event already, having a write-a-thon set, a lobby training (or actually 2, 1 on campus and 1 in the city at large) and getting people psyched to join the TCASK day on the hill! And that's what we can do.

See, we two, we happy two (yep, I just bastardized Shakespeare's King Henry V) at the state office are ready, willing, and, frankly, overjoyed to wake up at 4:30 to come and take meetings, make presentations, pitch ideas, offer programs, and strategize. But we don't know who we need to talk to in your community. You do! "Only you can prevent executions," Smoky the Bear almost said. So you figure out who we need to talk to and we'll come out and talk t them with you. Everyone's just gotta be like Allen! He knows how to git 'er done!