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# Ten Years at Richview Today
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200872ten-years-at-richview-today-html/
- Published: 2008-07-02T14:02:12.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:31:38.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, Life, pastoring, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[![First month in the office](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/2630283335_21df08aebd_m.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/41894177138@N01/2630283335?ref=dashhouse.com "View 'First month in the office' on Flickr.com")

Ten years ago today I began as the new pastor at [Richview Baptist Church](http://www.richview.org/?ref=dashhouse.com). Those were the days [Windows 98](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%5F98?ref=dashhouse.com) was a big deal (just a week old at that point), overhead projectors were still in common use, and I was skinny and had hair. (If you look carefully you can even see a bottle of liquid paper on my desk. When was the last time you used Liquid Paper?)

In September of that year we held an induction service.

[![Induction Service](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/2630284231_6fcfd97963_m.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/41894177138@N01/2630284231?ref=dashhouse.com "View 'Induction Service' on Flickr.com")

I think it’s safe to say that all of us look different today.

In those ten years Richview has changed a lot, and so have we. Jack Miller said to stay in one place until you’ve been humbled.

> The best way…development takes place is by staying under one set of leaders to give them enough time to know you so that **the obvious impossibilities of \[leading\] in your own strength can be pointed out and the younger leader broken before the Lord to abandon pride and move into Jesus’ love.** But this usually doesn’t come very soon if a man moves about too much. **People just don’t get to know him, and he moves on before getting humbled by seeing how impossible ministry is.** It’s one thing to see things happen with others leading; it is another to see them happen to you and through you, and that takes time and sweat. ([*The Heart of a Servant Leader*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851513530/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com))

On Sunday, Sandy, worship leader and head blogger at [Taste Buddy](http://tastebuddy.ca/?ref=dashhouse.com), spoke his love language and mine by presenting me with a basket of spicy snacks to mark the occasion:

[![10 Year Spicy Food Gift](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/2631106282_0a3bc2798d_m.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/41894177138@N01/2631106282?ref=dashhouse.com "View '10 Year Spicy Food Gift' on Flickr.com")

Charlene and I were talking the other day about how much we love what Richview has become and is becoming. It’s been a privilege to have been there ten years now through lots of ups and downs, and to have the sense that God isn’t done working with us yet.