Archive for July, 2008
Some Great Kids
I got to spend the past week with some great kids from Crosspointe Church in Washington D.C. working with the Center for Student Missions organization. Our high school kids took a short term mission trip to our nation’s capital to serve the poor and homeless for a week.
The majority of these kids had never served [...]
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Saturday Serve
I got to hang out with some incredible people today… the Kenya mission team from Crosspointe Church.
In preparation for our trip in September, I asked everyone to commit to meeting monthly leading up to the trip. One of those meetings (today), I snuck in a service project at the Durham Rescue Mission.
Here are some pictures [...]
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Next Week
Next week I get to spend the entire time serving the homeless in Washington DC. And I get to spend it with some great students and leaders from Crosspointe Church. On top of that, 2 of the students who are going are my kids so I get to spend some extended time working alongside them.
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It’s Not My Fault
As I have mentioned previously, I have a problem with balance in my life. But sometimes it’s not my own doing.
Early yesterday (July 4th) I decided that since I had nothing to do until the afternoon, I would move my Saturday job of mowing and trimming at the church to Friday. That would leave me [...]
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I do enjoy reading.
Right now I have 7 books on my nightstand, all of them have been started in some fashion or another. My attention span is one that always has multiple books going and I have no problem picking up where I leave off when I do get back to a book.
Leaving Microsoft to [...]
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Something Different – Wordle
There’s a website I stumbled across recently that I have been sharing with a few people. For the few I haven’t told, check out Wordle.
Wordle creates word clouds out of text that you enter and has the ability to print and share the word clouds you make. You can also change the color and font [...]
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