May 18

Facebook Stats

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 10:21 am by Josh Burcham

Tags: Creative, Facebook, Help, Portfolio. Categories: Creative, Featured, Leadership, Ministry

Facebook rules a lot of people lives, good or bad, it is the truth. If you’re a Facebook user you might be interest in these statistics:

People are on Facebook…should your church or ministry be as well? I work with churches to figure out that exact question. Give me a shout and we’ll get on it.

February 8

25 Random Things About Me

Sunday, February 8, 2009 @ 2:44 pm by Josh Burcham

Tags: Apple, Blog, Church, Facebook, Family, Hockey, Leadership, Lost, Ministry, Personal, Random, The Office, Thoughts, TV Shows. Categories: Featured, Personal

There have been a lot of people posting 25 Random Things about themselves over at Facebook and I enjoyed reading friends posts. Hopefully they enjoy reading mine. LOL. But since I live here on my blog and not on Facebook I figured I would post here instead.

The only shows that I watch/follow are The Office, Lost, and House. Mainly due to the fact I don’t have cable at home and only being able to afford those three from iTunes.

I get to work a 1/2 hr. early so I don’t have to go to the floor right away and have time to just sit there are do nothing.

I’m headed back to school to finish off my degree at the end of the month. Should take me about a year. It will be nice to have that behind me.

I’m an introvert and I don’t like being around a lot of people. Hard to believe that I’m call to be a pastor with that trait, but it is true. People actually freak me out.

With Andrew out of the country for the next six months. I have no family in Arizona. Well, blood family. I have plenty of people I consider family that live here. I’m all by myself. You all should come visit.

Speaking of family. I have a great one! And I know you’re jealous of it. If you’re not, it’s because you haven’t met us yet. I don’t say this enough to them…Love you, guys! Mom & Ken, Dad & Dane, Steve, Tiffany & Nick, Wendy & Steve (& the boys), Kris & Laura, Andrew, Jeff, and Nathan. And the Horton’s didn’t forget you guys. Love ya! Damn, I have a big family. (That’s just my immediate family.)

I’m freaked about getting back into hockey. Last month my mom offered to pay for season and now that it could become a reality…I’m a little freaked. It’s been seven years since I’ve played.

I didn’t vote for President Obama (I had to add Obama to my spell check), nor do we see eye to eye on issues, but I’m excited to see what he will be able to accomplish. More interested in politics then when Bust was in office. It’s going to be tough. Our economy is dying right in front of our faces. But I’m eager to see what he can do. (And I might be burned at the stake of this one by some of my christian brothers and sisters.)

Anytime I set my alarm to wake me up. I wake up fifteen minutes, on the second, before my alarm is to go off. Like clock work. Happened this morning.

My view of God, the Church and ministry are completely different then they were a year ago and I praise God for that. Thank you, Jesus!

I’ve been a janitor, knife salesman, Starbucks’ barista, Apple specialist, print designer, church planter and a pastor. And I was only fired from one of those jobs…okay layed off, but fired makes it such a better story.

I love kids and can’t wait to have my own some day.

I have had a gun pulled on me, ran from the cops and been chased in my car. Those are all separate stories and non of them I’m proud of.

Judge me if you will, but I love plays, musical, big productions, etc. I always have. I still remember going to see Nutcracker & Romeo and Juliet at a young age. Probably why service/ministry programing interests me so much.

I keep track of 5 email addresses. Thank you Gmail for your great support. Without you I would have to login to five sperate places and that would suck!

I write people off too easily. If someone wrongs me or someone I care about or makes a poor decision in a place of leadership. I just write them off; not giving them a second chance. But I do expect the same response to my actions. Haven’t grasped the whole grace thing yet, but I’m working on it.

There is music on my iPod that I am ashamed to call mine, but yet I still don’t delete it. I guess I should say, I have music I’m ashamed to say I like.

I’ve never broken a bone or had stitches. I do have a scare on my cheek from my mom’s nail, though.

I attend church services online, but if they don’t air the entire service from start to finish; I get bored with them very quickly.

Made it through school never reading a single book and now I try to read 3-4 a month. Weird how things change. Actually, my mom used to make me do Hooked on Phonics and read into a tape recorder. I think it was more for her enjoyment to hear me try to read, then it was a tool to help me read. But I don’t hold that against her. I was in 6th grade by the way.

I’m inspired by Wendy and Steve (sister and brother-in-law). They probably don’t know that, but I’m always watching them. They have a healthy and godly marriage and are phenomenal godly parents! Thanks for be such a great example.

I always have music playing (or sermon, video, tv show, movie, etc). I might not be listening to it, but I work better with noise. For example, Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall is playing right now in iTunes.

I’m a Mac, not a PC. It hurts me actually to have to go back and work on PCs from time to time. iPhone (not 3G), and 17″ PowerBook G4 (time to upgrade to the new MacBook Pro; thinking another 17″; I’m liking the 8GB worth of RAM in the 17″).

Since traveling to Israel last April (? pretty sure it was April; actually I can’t remember for the life of me when it was and I don’t want to take the time to look it up in Google Calendar. I’m so close to finishing this list) I’ve wanted to travel more places oversees. If you’re planning a trip and wanted to pay my way. I would not decline your offer. No, really I wouldn’t.

For someone that considers himself pretty self aware. It took me freaking forever to write 25 things. I should of number them, because I probably spent more time counting to see how many I had than thinking of what to write next.

Now it’s your turn. 25 random things about you!