The POSITIVE I learned

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I believe we can all say that the person we are today has been formed from a lifetime of teaching and experiences.  What POSITIVE things did you learn or experience at HAC that have stayed with you until today?  For some, I know it will be tempting to say some negative thing and try and turn it into a postiive.  this is not what we are looking for on this thread.  Totally postitive only.

*As always, one positive thing per post.  Remember, it's all about the numbers, baby!  And that's POSITIVE!!!
 
I believe I am a more organized person when putting on special days or special events of which I am in charge.
 
Growing up at FBC was very structured.  We learned how to do everything - do it right the first time or don't do it.  Remember that motto?  That was Bro. Hyles' motto.  I learned it from early on.  That has taken me into my adult years and yes, I'm very organized.  I do it right or I don't do it. 
 
Witnessing and dealing with people. I was very quite and worked without a sound to teachers....Mrs Godfrey saw me and always would speak to me...now I look for the underdog and speak and encourage them...
 
My husband learned a lot of leadership principles....even with his disability he has lead us through some rough waters...
 
I learned to cherish a few songs sung yearly as specials like:

God will take care of you.
 
I try to look for gold glittering in most people. 

For some people like RAIDER, it's very hard, but I keep looking.....hoping.....believing that it must be there somewhere.

Seriously, I do try to remember that everyone has potential. 
 
I learned that if you organize your time and keep your nose to the grindstone, you can accomplish a lot more than you think you can.
 
This may sound negative, but I assure you it isn't. The most important thing I learned at HAC was that I didn't want to be a HACer. That single decision and the subsequent act of quitting has benefited my life greatly. I never have figured out what I want to be when I grow up, but I knew I didn't want to be that.

Just to clarify a bit, can we include the positive things we learned at FBC and HBHS too?
 
Norefund said:
This may sound negative, but I assure you it isn't. The most important thing I learned at HAC was that I didn't want to be a HACer. That single decision and the subsequent act of quitting has benefited my life greatly. I never have figured out what I want to be when I grow up, but I knew I didn't want to be that.

Just to clarify a bit, can we include the positive things we learned at FBC and HBHS too?
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Norefund said:
This may sound negative, but I assure you it isn't. The most important thing I learned at HAC was that I didn't want to be a HACer. That single decision and the subsequent act of quitting has benefited my life greatly. I never have figured out what I want to be when I grow up, but I knew I didn't want to be that.

Just to clarify a bit, can we include the positive things we learned at FBC and HBHS too?
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During your first paragraph you violated the OP rules.

The answer to the question in your second paragraph is.....YES!!
 
I learned that doing small things for people (i.e. notes of gratitude, small surprises) mean a lot to most people.
 
RAIDER - I like your comment about "I learned that doing small things for people (i.e. notes of gratitude, small surprises) mean a lot to most people."  I try to do that too.  Sometimes it is the little things we do for people that mean more to them.  A kind word, a pat on the back, a note.  I think you've hit it home.  Thanks for reminding me of that, I think I needed to be reminded. 
 
Actually, what I appreciate the most is the emphasis on working diligently and doing one's best at work. Having grown up at HAC I don't know if it was parental or FBC ministry-related (or both), but I do appreciate the work ethic mentality that was driven into my core.
 
Smellin Coffee said:
Actually, what I appreciate the most is the emphasis on working diligently and doing one's best at work. Having grown up at HAC I don't know if it was parental or FBC ministry-related (or both), but I do appreciate the work ethic mentality that was driven into my core.
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Agreed. Following that admonition has served me quite well.
 
Smellin Coffee said:
Actually, what I appreciate the most is the emphasis on working diligently and doing one's best at work. Having grown up at HAC I don't know if it was parental or FBC ministry-related (or both), but I do appreciate the work ethic mentality that was driven into my core.
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I totally get that.  So many things I "realized" at HAC are actually things that were just reinforced there as a way of life taught in my growing up years in a good, Christian home. 
 
Amen to Smellin and noref.  I still remember a HACker that worked at RPS with me, in 93/94 said:"You work like a man who is possessed".

When I later became a mgr, I snatched up the HB grads that showed up there, cuz I knew what I was getting...diligence.

Anishinaabe

 
Now, to the OP.  HAC put me in situations, where I was interacting with lost strangers, and newborn babes in every imaginable scenario.
HAC told me to reach them.
HAC told me that it was urgent.
HAC told me that is was God's Will.
Thank God for this practical conditioning.

Anishinaabe

 
Learned it from my dad 1st.....but it was driven home in a chapel message....."There cometh one after you".

It is a needed ministry philosophy everywhere.I taught it to those with and under me in ministry.

I taught it to my kids as they grew up in my home. Just last week I attended a Bible study group that my son helped to start a couple of years ago. He & another couple of guys kinda tag-teamed in leading during the study of the over 100 who attended in a rented facility. What I noticed afterwards was that my son was the 1 guy who spearheaded the clean-up & squaring away the place when it was time to go home. He got it, too. ;)
 
fishinnut said:
Learned it from my dad 1st.....but it was driven home in a chapel message....."There cometh one after you".

It is a needed ministry philosophy everywhere.I taught it to those with and under me in ministry.

I taught it to my kids as they grew up in my home. Just last week I attended a Bible study group that my son helped to start a couple of years ago. He & another couple of guys kinda tag-teamed in leading during the study of the over 100 who attended in a rented facility. What I noticed afterwards was the my son was the 1 guy who spearheaded the clean-up & squaring away the place when it was time to go home. He got it, too. ;)
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Let me just say/shout/yell a hearty HAAAAAAAAAAAY-MEN! 
 
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