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Archive for June, 2005
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Friday, June 10th, 2005Lorreal (aka Lori) Torres, recipient of the 2005 Xpress Writing Award and Xcel board member since January, is one of my heroes. (Photo courtesy of Mike Mowery. Check out more pictures of Lori and the rest of the cast of Xpress’ Life in Translation here and here.) At seventeen, Lori is finishing her junior year [...]
Aliens in the world
Friday, June 10th, 2005Noel Castellanos has a great post about the church’s responsibilities in immigration reform. One would think that Christians, whom the Apostle Peter and the writer of Hebrews both refer to as “aliens in this world,” would be especially sensitive to the needs of immigrants in our country. Yet often the most strident “close-the-borders/send-them-home” activitists are [...]
Just another day in the city
Thursday, June 9th, 2005Ran into (actually walked past) Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo during lunch.home allstate insurance loanmotorcycle loan alabama companybad loans $2000 creditalaska supplemental loansagri loansloan business 8aeduacational acs loansamazed loans Map
Next Stops, Boston & York
Thursday, June 9th, 2005To the Red Sox faithful in New England, your favorite Yankee fan is coming to town for the annual TechMission conference July 8-9. I’ll be speaking Friday night. Co-founded by Rudy and other visionaries in 2000, TechMission “supports Christian Computer Centers around the world as they address the digital divide by providing computer skills to [...]
Celebrating Jacob Riis and the fight for economic justice
Thursday, June 9th, 2005Generation Xcel opened its first youth center nine years ago this summer in a New York City public housing project named after Jacob Riis. A Dutch immigrant in the late 1800s, Riis employed new technology as one of the first photojournalists in exposing the harsh living condions of the urban poor. His most influential book, [...]
A walking tour of Avenue D
Thursday, June 9th, 2005For a primer on our neighborhood, check out the walking tour map by New York Songlines.
"Xpresser of the Year" is now a UN Consultant
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005Seriously. Generation Xcel’s own Kevin Cedeno missed our Celebration of Xcellence last Friday to attend the North American Regional Consultation for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence Againt Children as a youth delegate in Toronto. That means we couldn’t present him with his award for “Xpresser of the Year,” and that he wasn’t there [...]
Average students; world leaders
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005President Bush and Senator Kerry were both C-students in college, and contrary to popular perception, Pres. Bush actually had a slightly better GPA (77 to 76). If C-students from Yale become President and runner-up of the most powerful nation in the world, what do A-students accomplish? Or do GPAs not really matter as much as [...]
Judah’s workin’ it at Youth Explosion
Monday, June 6th, 2005Some of the highlights: The harder he pumped, the faster he went. Judah’s in the lead. The dolphin show was tight. Uncle John, Elsa, and Chris fly through the air with the greatest of ease! Check out the rest of the pics here. Congratulations to Youth Explosion for pulling off a terrific outreach at Great [...]
What really matters
Monday, June 6th, 2005From Friday’s June 3, 2005 Dear Friends and Family: Generation Xcel is not about programs, budgets, or buildings. It is about young people, real lives with real value and real purpose. The “stuff†we do is simply an excuse to establish meaningful relationships with real kids  your kids. We love them for who they [...]
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