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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006Your Christmas and birthday gifts for Judah can end up featured online like his Star Wars clones. Shop for him at Amazon.com: Judah’s Christmas Wish List. In fact, do all your Christmas shopping here and a portion of your Amazon purchases will be donated to Generation Xcel.
Buy Christmas gifts here; support youth
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006If you’re expecting to buy Christmas gifts this year, your purchases for others can also mean gifts for the children at Generation Xcel. When you shop online at the Away With Words store (an affiliate of Amazon.com), Amazon will send a commission back to the ministry. That’s right. Shop Amazon’s entire inventory of stuff — [...]
Best in Manhattan
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Jonny Mal’s brother Chris at the 2006 Celebration of Xcellence I’m not sure whether to be proud or humbled by this, but my friend and a member of my youth group was crowned “Best Trash Talker in Manhattan” last night on MTV’s Yo Momma. Yes, if you saw the show, Jonny Mal was one of [...]
“Following his father’s lead”
Friday, September 1st, 2006I love that that’s how New Man magazine opens its September/October feature on my work with Generation Xcel. It continues: “Del Rio is passionate about reaching a youth culture that has largely been disconnected from the church. When he feels overwhelmed by the task at hand, Del Rio is quickly reminded of Romans 5:20, which [...]
Dean Jonathan
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006More on our local Adopt-A-School experiment. Jonathan, in 2003, with a PS 34 student After offering teaching positions to both Jonathan and Dorothy, the principal at PS 34 asked Jonathan to also become the 7th and 8th grade dean. As dean, he will be responsible both for math interventions with underperforming students and disciplinary issues [...]
Six Degress of Reality Show separation
Monday, July 31st, 2006Not even. More like one degree. Last winter, my college friend was a contestant on Project Runway (Andrae Gonzalo). This summer, the son of Generation Xcel’s judo teacher is a Contender (Nick Acevedo). And in the upcoming season of Yo Momma, one of my former youth group kids (Jonathan Maldonado) makes us, hmm, we’ll see. [...]
PS 34, Take 2
Friday, July 28th, 2006Last month, Jonathan paved the Adopt-A-School way at P.S. 34, the public school across the street from Generation Xcel. Yesterday, Dorothy Rivera joined him as a second math teacher at the school. A Cornell University graduate and lifelong New Yorker, Dorothy spent the summer before her senior year on Xcel’s staff and worked full-time after [...]
Slammin’
Monday, July 17th, 2006Saturday’s tenth annual Xcel 3-on-3 Hoops tournament. Pics here. Pics from the 2005 tournament.
3-on-3 Hoops
Friday, July 14th, 2006Tomorrow.
GenerationXcel.com
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006FYI – The Generation Xcel website has been down since my last trip to Puerto Rico because the web host went out of business. The site (along with any links from here to there) should be live again by Thursday or Friday. Thanks for your patience.
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