Music & Clean Water

Tonight I"m heading out to Twestival, which is:

Tweet. Meet. Give.

On 12 February 2009

You have to Ask

Whenever you're trying to gather support for a vision or project, that usually requires creating a team of people and supporters. Of course that is not easy to do, as must folks are

Pastor became a Wrestler

Recently inspired by the hit movie The Wrestler. Pastor, youth speaker and friend Jeff Mangum has decided to quit full-time ministry. So far he's canceled all speaking engagements & quit his position at the Austin Stone.

Today was his first day of training in Belton, …

Connecting with other Leaders

Yesterday I met with Greg Vestri, who is the CEO of Food for the Hungry. It's refreshing to spend time in conversation with key leaders. These conversations helps me process all my thoughts, dreams and visions with someone who actually understands. Doing global work …

Trusting God is Foreign

I spent some time praying and reading scripture this morning. I'm reading Samuel and the story of Saul. It started so well, but we all know the ending is

Feeling Scared

Starting to realize maybe I'm in God's will. I totally feel overwhelmed, stretched, scared and humbled to be launching a non-profit. Not sure how its all going to work out. And I think for some strange reason that's exactly where God wants me to be.

Weekend Recap

I have not had a lot of time to blog much lately. Life has been very busy as my to-do list gets longer and longer every single day. The joys of bootstrapping a non-profit. Anyhow...

• Sent out the first-round of support letters on Friday. This is really big for us, we …

We Need To Require More

I'm

Are we moving to Raleigh?

So we've recently gotten some emails, Facebook's and phone call's from friends and family wanting to know about our future. Let me try and clarify. Back in early fall when the HELP team was

The Launch Party

I'm excited to

Risk First

A lot of people want to live an epic life. We hear amazing leaders tell amazing stories of success. We want to

Thoughts on Focus by Erwin McManus

I randomly picked up this book by Erwin McManus off my bookshelf.

How to manage stress

Some Monday's I wake-up and have this deep sense of stress. So many "needs" that have to get done. I think the way you manage stress determines how effective you will be as a leader. Here are some thoughts:

Choosing To Love

While in Zimbabwe, I was asking all sorts of questions. I remember my friend John telling me that the local government drops kids off at the gate of the children home and they drive away! Why? Because these kids are homeless, their parents have died, or they are so poor …

Why we do what we do

The past few days I've struggled with the hard

H.E.L.P. Launch Party

Finally...I finally feel like Help End Local Poverty is going public. I'm so happy. March 1st around 5PM I celebrate my 36th (DEPRESSING) birthday. That evening I'm inviting all my friends, family and anyone else who would like to join to a Help End Local Poverty launch …

A little can go a long way

Click on this link and you will see some great pictures of the Musha Wevena Kids Home. This is H.E.L.P.'s major area of focus. Soon we will be launching a campaign to help raise funds for this orphanage and these kids. We're hoping to raise funds to help provide food, …

Mark Driscoll on Nightline

Whether

Finding Margin

There is no doubt we are busy culture. Like most folks, my day started yesterday around 6:30AM and ended with falling asleep on the couch trying to do some reading for school at 11PM. I felt like the entire day was filled with constant activity. I'm no longer proud to …

10 Twitter Commandments

So I'm a big fan of Twitter. I get to meet a lot of people, hear their