Andrew M. Fuqua

I am enjoying the Ruby programming language these days. I like its expressiveness, conciseness. I have been surprised at how many useful and high quality libraries there are and how easy it is to download and install them. Take a look at my open source projects for a couple of things I'm doing with Ruby on Rails. The Atlanta Ruby Meetup Group is fantastic.

I ride my bicycle almost every Saturday. Lately I've been riding with Dunwoody Cycling.

And I still read a lot, mostly software development process and management books and theological material. That's all after the kids are in bed. Before that I play with them as much as I can.

I'm terribly interested in making Sunday School work for my church. Through these small groups we should:

• invite people to learn about Jesus,
• discover the great truths of the Bible and faith stories of believers, and
• connect with each other through fellowship and ministry.

Simply doing stuff together outside of church enables all three of these things to happen. It sounds so simple. Then why is it so hard? It seems that we're all too busy. Or too spread apart. Or can't get a baby sitter. Or can't afford one. Or it's too hard to set something up. Or maybe we just don't care as much as we should... because we don't do stuff together often enough.

Don't get me wrong. My church is just fantastic. There is something going on in every age group almost every month. My friends are great. But it does take some amount of assistance to keep it going and keep it improving.

There are a couple excellent booklets you can buy for $1 each from LifeWay, but they are also free downloadable. The first is the The 3D Sunday School -- invite, discover, and connect. The sequel is I-6 Invite: A Six-Lane Strategy Toward an Inviting Sunday School.

Anyway, I wish I had more time for off-roading, water skiing, rock climbing and bird hunting.

If I could just find 30 minutes each day I'd play my (grandfather's) piano more. My namesake grandfather, William "Bill" Andrew Martin, had a band, The Ragtime Rhythm Boys. They played around lower Alabama and Georgia, such as Columbus, Phoenix City, maybe Montgomery and perhaps into Mississippi presumably during the 50's and 60's. I have a bunch of reel to reel tapes from their performances, rehearsals and jam sessions. A good friend of mine, Eddie Gilbert, was gracious enough to use his super equipment to dub those tapes over onto CD. Each tape fits on 1 CD, but I've got one big 30 minute track per side. I'd love to have a couple hours per day to finish cleaning them up and breaking the long tracks into a track per song. I've done several, but have many more to go. Some day I may put a few tracks here for you to enjoy.