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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 [...]
UYWI – speaker schedule
Friday, May 13th, 2005If you’re in LA next week, check out the Urban Youth Workers Institute. Elective: What Would Jay-Z Do? Engaging the Culture Friday, May 20, 2005, Time: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM In the last thirty years hip hop has revolutionized pop culture while evangelical Christianity has created an insular subculture. How have self-proclaimed “controversies” like [...]
Hope springs eternal
Thursday, May 12th, 2005“The Crusade’s investment allowed us to create a prototype for how to strategically engage youth culture for Christ that can be implemented outside of the context of this particular event. … Accordingly, we expect that He will use the Get Real message, comic, music, and website, even more effectively than how we first imagined.” For [...]
Goin
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005… for the Urban Youth Workers Instutute in Los Angeles, May 19-21, where I’m presenting three messages in two days. Fun. “A Place of Hope” – Friday Night Keynote “WWJD (What Would Jay-Z Do): Engaging the Culture” – Elective (article here) “From Irrelevent to Revolutionary” – Elective (article here) [Descriptions and schedule here.] You goin’? [...]
Pray for peace today in SoCal
Thursday, May 5th, 2005Ordinarily I would be skeptical of things like this as internet hoaxes, but Rudy is a source I trust. Apparently, Los Angeles anticipates gang bloodshed today between Mexican and black youths. Please join Rudy in praying for: “Protection for anyone targeted, for people of violence to be removed, or the spirit of violence to be [...]
From our friends at the Coalition re. Billy Graham
Friday, April 22nd, 200562 days until the Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade (June 24-26). 63 days until Get Real concert (June 25). … If 5 million young people in the tri-state area are truly going to have a credible opportunity to experience God’s anointing through Billy Graham, we need to spread the word. Please forward this email [...]
Preview Get Real artwork
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Let’s get viral
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005What do Hush Puppies shoes and declining crime in East New York have in common? More importantly, why should we care? According to Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, they’re both “textbook examples of epidemics in action,” and epidemics are what make “the unexpected become expected, where radical change is more than a possibility …. [...]
Why not fruit salad?
Friday, April 8th, 2005A youth ministry friend of mine has become something of a muse for me recently. He inspired this article last month, and now this post after a series of emails about the nature of partnerships. He made a great point about how difficult it is to prioritize working with groups whose missions contrast with our [...]
His dreams are golden
Friday, April 8th, 2005Ronnell McFadden, 19, won the silver medal (178 Pound-Novicee division) at last night’s Golden Gloves boxing championships at Madison Square Garden. Ronnell attends Infinity New York church, pastored by my ministry partner and friend, Dimas Salaberrios.
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