Archive for July, 2006
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006A 21 year tradition continues this week at Abounding Grace, with the annual Jesus Loves You New York outreach. Twenty-five or so guests from around the country and Canada are staying at the church and hosting block parties and concerts and a basketball tournament throughout Manhattan’s lower east side. If you’re in town and want [...]
In the Arena
Sunday, July 9th, 2006Pastor Roger quoted this in church today, talking about the pursuit of destiny (not just blessing): “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the [...]
Troubleshooting continues
Sunday, July 9th, 2006After hours experimenting with template settings and html code, I finally squashed two bugs off my website. Three remain (#s 3-5 on this list). Show some love with possible antidotes to the rest.
Visit My Store
Sunday, July 9th, 2006Some have asked what happened to my recommended book list. All of the recommendations, along with a number of free audio and video downloads, are now in my store. Please note that any proceeds generated at the store benefit the ministry of Community Solutions. UPDATE, 07/11/06: Uh, something happened to the links, and they’re all [...]
Pray for Isabel
Friday, July 7th, 2006Scott McLane is a friend and ministry colleague I first met online over a year ago and have had the privilege to meet in the flesh on two recent trips to LA. He and his wife adopted baby Isabel six months or so ago. After noticing developmental delays the last two months, they took her [...]
WMCA Youth Leaders BBQ
Friday, July 7th, 2006Free fun, food, music, and gifts: Next Thursday, July 13 11:30 am – 2:30 pm RSVP by calling 201.298.2097 For more info, listen to People With Purpose radio broadcast from today: George Flores interviewing Jeremy Del Rio. WMCA.
WordPress Troubleshooting
Friday, July 7th, 2006To all my non-blogging friends, please bear with me as I’m still learning the nuances of a new blogging software. To all my Wordpress expert friends, please help. I’m having several technical problems with this blog. 1. Why does WP arbitrarily change the format of some blogposts? For example, this post appears as I created [...]
Bittersweet
Thursday, July 6th, 2006My parents, Judah and I returned from Puerto Rico this morning. What a bittersweet experience. I’ll reflect more later, but for now more links and a few early observations. Photosets: I’m related to everyone in this picture. Puerto Rico 2006 (76 photos, and growing, from both trips to PR in the last month) Don’t try [...]
Dancing with Abuela
Saturday, July 1st, 2006[A ridiculously handsome couple. Check Abuelo's photo set for 71 pics like this.] After a valiant fight that lasted more than 29 days, weeks longer than the specialists predicted, my grandfather’s body finally relented last night at appx. 11:35 pm, and released his spirit into the arms of Jesus and his very own “Miss Universe,” [...]
Elevation
Saturday, July 1st, 2006Photo Set (23 photos) Great times at Student Venture’s Northeast Elevation Retreat. Mad love to Kevin Young and the SV team for hosting Judah and me, as well as John, the 7-year-old son of the retreat ground (Water Gap Resort)’s managers, who became instant friends with Judah almost as soon as we arrived. The trip [...]
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