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Friday, June 24th, 2005Saturday’s Crusade program featured two videos profiling six New York City teens who love Jesus. Four of the six are dear friends of mine. Three are from Generation Xcel: Loreal Torres, Amanda DeJesus, and Eric Velez. Lori I’ve known for twelve or so years, Amanda for eight or nine, and Eric for four. All were [...]
Happy Father’s Day, Dad
Friday, June 17th, 2005This Father’s Day is especially significant to my brothers and me because our dad nearly missed the celebration. Last August he survived a shoulda-been-fatal motorcycle wreck. Read the testimony below, originally written August 16, 2004.______________________________________________ Two weeks ago, August 4, 2004, my dad miraculously survived a near fatal motorcycle accident. He and two minister friends [...]
NCAA Semifinals feature …
Friday, June 10th, 2005… my girl, Ahndrea Allen. Tonight, she’s competing in the semifinals of the 400 at the NCAA Track and Field Championship in Sacramento, Califoria at 10:40 p.m. (EDT). PRAY for her! (Ahndrea’s brother Andrew was named one of Xcel’s “Volunteers of the Year” at last week’s Celebration.)
I’ve known her since she was 5
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 [...]
Celebrate Xcellence
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005generation xcel presents the fourth annual Celebration of Xcellence friday, 3 june, 7-9 pm (doors open at 6:30)Location: Abounding Grace Ministries9 East 7th Street (corner of 3rd Ave.), NYC celebrate the after school achievements of Generation Xcel students live music, spoken word, dance, & drama awards and honors light refreshments admission is free please come [...]
Big year for graduates – much love and respect
Sunday, May 15th, 20052005 is shaping up to be a HUGE college graduation year for me. Last Saturday, Ahndrea Allen got the party started by completing Northeastern University. Ahndrea was in my youth group for five or so years before moving to Boston for college. She’s a track star and musical standout who is currently deciding between offers [...]
Where Grace Abounds — UFT President Randi Weingarten spends National Day of Prayer in Church
Monday, May 9th, 2005Randi Weingarten, the president of one of the most powerful teachers unions in the nation, attended the National Day of Prayer service at Abounding Grace Minsitries last Thursday. [Photos courtesy of Mike Mowery. For more pics, go here.] It’s not often that evangelicals and public school union chiefs see eye to eye on educational issues, [...]
I’m proud of him
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005I ran into Kevin Cedeno this afternoon. He’s still flying high after receiving an acceptance letter from John Jay College last week, and his work with the Youth Justice Board has him interviewing Department of Education bigwigs (on the schedule, Chancellor Joel Klein and possibly Mayor Bloomberg) and criminal justice experts. Three years ago, Kevin [...]
The Litigation Effect
Monday, March 28th, 2005Court went reasonably well today. Actually, as well as could be expected. The judge is taking very seriously the problems with our purported landlord’s ownership, and has agreed to prioritize discovery on this issue moving forward. In a ruling last month she suggested that First Ukrainian (the church that originally owned the building) may still [...]
Court again on Monday
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