Hey Everyone!
Thanks a million again for everyone that prayed this week for me. It’s been a long week, but a successful one. I’m sorry that I had to be so vague, but that’s how it goes sometimes …
I’ve got an announcement to make … and it will probably deflate a bunch of you who expected something spectacular or flashy … but the truth is, I think this is pretty spectacular and is a huge “God thing” for me.
If you paid attention to the “Categories” I clicked for the “pray for me” posts … I was giving a little hint … one of the categories was:
“The Entrepreneur In Me” …
As of the stroke of midnight this past Wednesday, August 30 … HPP Christian Web Hosting Solutions, my web hosting business for the last 10+ years, was acquired by Advanced Online Solutions of Tulsa, OK.
You see, life has been spread way too thin for me … I embraced a new full-time position as the Worship Director at my church back in March … all the while, continuing to service and support my full-time web company, not to mention some of the additional ventures I have in online e-commerce and the worship-related side of my main company, Highest Praise Productions.
I have to confess, reading “Good to Great” did me in .. if you’ve not read it, I highly recommend it. As much as I fought it, “web hosting” just wasn’t in my “Hedgehog Concept”. I began to pray that God would either bring me “self-disciplined” people to hire to run this business, or that He would provide a buyer for it.
Long story short … a Christian company in Tulsa was very interested in purchasing the company - not just my customers, but the name “HPP Christian Hosting”, the site, the identity, the vision … all to take it from “good” to “great”. I actually spent a couple of days with the President of the company who flew here from Tulsa. After spending our time together, I knew God had provided the right person to pass the baton to.
So, what does this mean for me?
More time to focus on the things I’m passionate about!
… more focus for my role as Worship Director at SSCC
… more focus on my passion to equip the Kingdom of God in worship …
How does that look? Well, for starters - I hope to finally have time to write and record. I’ve got some incredibly exciting stuff happening in the “culture of worship” at church … more on that soon. I hope to be more intentional about blogging and podcasting. Starting this weekend, I hope to finally release a new “Highest Praise” podcast.
I’ve unloaded a major responsibility … one that has been rewarding, but at times was immensely stressful, especially the past few weeks leading up to this transition.
So, as “non-wow” as this announcement may be to you … it’s a big deal for the McKinnon Family. I feel 10 years younger and 100 pounds lighter.
Now, I’m curious … all this vague “pray, something’s up” talk surely got some of your minds wandering …
What did you THINK this was all about?
For the Kingdom,
Fred
