Doug Marsh Blog November 2013

ccm2361 wrote:http://dmarsh.agblogger.org/2013/11/01/news-november-2013/

We are pleased to announce that Centershot ministries will be offering archery instructor certification to our leaders at two levels. See the attached document for more information on these training levels. Also, check out the pre-LEAD14 events for the first archery instructor training opportunities.

I like that idea  

Agreed.

It appears that the monthly Marsh blog is the best way to find out the latest information, whether new or a change. I'd given up on the national website.

Chris is kind-of our Unit S-2 Officer!!!

I hang on the edge waiting for "Rangers Now" it has the latest and greatest. Packed full of new and improved stuff. It's part of your chartering dollars. A value that can't be estimated it's so rewarding. I wished this was all true.

The old magazines had some stuff in them that I enjoyed. I could hardly wait to read them. It's been a long time since I had that feeling. Washing off wet toast with hand cleaner just doesn't hardly get me to excited. If the hand cleaner was flammable..it might be kinda fun. GRIN!

We are in a sad state of affairs. Where there is no vision the people perish. Where there is a flawed vision the people shuffle their feet and slowly walk away. We need a revisit of a first vision. One that was so good it was strong enough to allow flawed ideas but continued on as these flawed ideas fell by the way side.

Rangers Now... is in need of looking back and doing what worked in the past.

Mark Jones

Been a long time since I came across a request from national looking for local input. Does anyone from the big office stop by this site? Years ago when I was a silent guest, I vaguely remember reading posts from a national officer.

National officers if they come here spit out the party line or just lurk. You're thinking of rangerforums.com

Bruce, not trying to be too heavy on "bashing" National, but I recall on the old "Ranger Forum", only "Happy-Talk" was allowed.

If anyone mentioned a problem that he had with the Marsh-esque changes, his posts disappeared.

I had mentioned that I felt like Oliver Douglas in Green Acres.  Everyone else was talking crazy, but they're all in agreement, and understand each other.  I'm the only one who has different ideas and don't understand, so I must be nuts.

Doug Marsh only lives a few miles from my house. I know most of the National staff by first name. They have a job to do and have been told to do it. Their hands are tied to the oars and they have to keep rowing. IF it was my job I would do the same.
Since it's not my job or my income that is at stake. I have more liberty to choose. If it's good I tell them it's good. If it's bad I tell them it's bad. If it's stupid I tell them it's stupid. GRIN! Yet I keep working day in and day out in Ranger Ministry. Not so much in the empowerment business but am called to RTK boys for Christ. The rest of the stuff I don't agree with..I spew it out and go on chewing the cud.

Around here in Springfield...if your employed by GPH you had best watch your back. They are as carnal as the rest of us. I am thankful Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Man fails at it every time.
Mark Jones

Well........, I have been known to be a bit of a Mustang.

In fact, some day I might get the boot for not being a CHOGO/AGO (CHurch Of God Only/Assembly of God Only).

When I get to heaven, I wouldn't be too surprised if I saw a few Baptists, Methodists, (and maybe even a Catholic, or two).

I sure do believe there are more than pentacostals and charismatics. We can kinda be an uppity bunch think we're better than everyone else. A kinda elitist attitude. I would rather be in a church full of people that didn't speak in tongues than one that did speak in tongues but lacked love. My first six months in Ohio I attended such a church before I came to the one I am at now. All Law and no Love is not Christianity to me, its Judaism.

joecool wrote:It appears that the monthly Marsh blog is the best way to find out the latest information, whether new or a change.

It is!
His blog is aimed at District Directors, but its the best place to learn about anything new. I keep an eye on it & always post it here on RC
 

We learn very little otherwise. Old days we had Seek and Save, Ryan Beaty as voice of nat'l on RF, and decent RangersNow when it used to be a real magazine. Now we have, "change first, communicate second". I think the open lines of communications they started with in the beginning bit them on the butt when when RF'ers became vocal on many things they didn't like.

What is that all about?

Don't know, but I clicked on the "Current News" link and got the following message from my Kaspersky:

"Access denied
The requested URL cannot be provided

The requested object at the URL:

http://dougmarsh.org/news_current.php

Threat detected:

object infected HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic"

I don't know if there is something bad in there, or if my antivirus is just being overly sensitive.

What am I missing? I clicked on the link and it's just a list of links...

It's Doug Marsh's Camp Summit Website from 2002.
Still has a lot of neat pictures from 12 years ago on it.

I was wondering how it was doing after the years.

Mark Jones
p.s. I am getting no errors on it.

Its not been updated since 2002?

It's been a long, long time. Perhaps a website stuck in the 1.0 era where they liked to camp in cabins.

There maybe more news about it. Perhaps RRI will have more uptodate info.

Mark Jones

I checked out RRI. Nothing on there about Camp Summit that I could find.

IF you guys find out any info I am curious about it. I will ask some of the staff of RRI and see.

Mark Jones