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Thursday, February 24th, 2005Youth workers and pastors interested in the Youth Initiative for the upcoming Billy Graham Crusade, join me at Square One: Saturday, 2/26, 9:30-11:30, at the Roosevelt Hotel Grand Ballroom (45 Street and Madison). For more info and to rsvp, go here. As of Wednesday, 600 guests had already RSVP’d, so confirm your attendance today. Listen [...]
Why Art Matters
Thursday, February 24th, 2005It communicates Truth viscerally in ways that mere words cannot. See for example, Transformations, the mural we commissioned from artist Greg King for Generation Xcel’s 88-Step theater. Greg King, 2002. Oil on Canvas. Triptych measuring appx. 8×12 Transformations depicts Generation Xcel’s vision for community and individual renewal. The perimeter of the cityscape is characterized by [...]
VOICE (of silence)
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005Join Generation Xcel in raising awareness of global hunger and AIDS at the “Voice of Silence,” an interactive evening of music, spoken word, and artistry presented in partnership with World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine. Friday 2/25/05, 7 pm @ Primitive Christian Church 207-209 East Broadway (b/w Jefferson and Clinton Streets) F train to East Broadway Xpress [...]
Adoptive Racism?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005Bob has a great post about the need for adoptive homes for African American boys. Check it out, especially if you are considering adoption.no loan account instant bank moneyday without pay loan account checkingno account needed checking loanbank accounting loan systemloan ace americaloan business aceactual cash loanslender loan credit ad personal Mapgambling 18 and oklahoma [...]
Pray for Abner and his team
Thursday, February 10th, 2005Abner Ramos is an Intervarsity staff worker at East L.A. College. One of the students in his chapter, Julio, was killed this week in a hit-and-run accident. Abner is in the middle of the tragedy, as is Brad Arnold, and I pray wisdom and spiritual strength as they support Julio’s loved ones during a very [...]
Mr. President, is this rhetorical or real?
Friday, February 4th, 2005In Wednesday’s State of the Union address, much was made of the President’s desire to “focus on our most-at-risk youth.” The White House summarized the proposals as follows: The President announced a new outreach effort, to be led by Mrs. Laura Bush, to focus on young Americans, especially young men, to help ensure a successful [...]
“My friends are tastemakers”
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005Huh? Did you know the latest, greatest rage among marketers is to entice you to buy their brands by outfitting ordinary “cool kids” in them — not just athletes and celebrities anymore — for free? The NY Post calls it: a new kind of advertising phenomenon – one that goes beyond more established methods like [...]
“It started spreading like cockroaches”
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005This story reminded me of Enid. Last night, fans at an Alabama girls high school basketball game rioted, forcing police to clear the gym and cancel the game. Before Enid became the mature, wise-beyond-her-years youth specialist we at Xcel know and love, my first introduction to her was at a neighborhood football game nine or [...]
Things that make you go hmm
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005A pretty, 20-something aspiring actress was shot and killed by a thuggish posse of muggers last week in our neighborhood. Her fiance cradled her in his lap as she breathed her last breath. This murder was indeed a tragic crime. People should be outraged. But from the resulting press coverage one would think it is [...]
What Does it Mean to be Latino?
Monday, January 31st, 2005My dad goofs on me because I claim to be Latino. He’s got a point, I guess, because (a) I don’t speak Spanish (well), (b) I look like a white boy, and (c) his wife, my mother, is about as northern European as Americans come — her parents both immigrated to the States from Norway. [...]
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