Friday, July 20, 2007
‘Church’, revisited
We’re really grateful to R. Dennis Green - founding editor of the APMP Journal - for his kind words in the current issue of APMP Perspective. Reviewing our presentation, ‘Church of Proposal Excellence’, which he described as “an unforgettable hour of celebration and worship at proposal church”, Dennis commented:
“Conceived and orchestrated by APMP’s now-legendary funnymen, BJ Lownie and Jon Williams, the Church of Proposal Excellence proved an ingenious concept of readings, meditation, a sermon, stories, and hymns. There was even a spirited recitation of seven deadly sins. A collection was taken-not of money, but of takeaway lessons from the conference. Yes, there was a lesson or two tied to someone’s excessive revelry. But in greater abundance were the testimonials of best practice lessons shared.”
It’s great running these sessions; it’s lovely when our efforts get recognised.
Dennis is also a truly excellent photographer; earlier this week, he kindly sent us over some of the shots he took of the session, which we thought might entertain those of you who were there:
(Click on the thumbnails if you want to see the larger images).
That last one shows BJ and I fighting a boxing match on a Wii. Go on , BJ, I know you’re dying to tell everyone who won. (It does his ego good to be allowed the occasional victory at these things from time to time!!)












Wow! We have to talk! This is great!!!!
I don’t think I need to say who won Jon. It’s obvious from the photo which one of us was keeping his chin covered and had good footwork and who was wide open. I think it’s also obvious that we were defintiely having fun. A big “Thanks” to Lisa and her team at XR Solutions for having the video game set up. (Did I hear that you wnet out and bought one Jon?)