Alan Hirsch just saw this video played at a pentecostal church conference in Canada and I thought it funny enough to post here. And if you like the video, you might appreciate my old post on The Art of Not Getting Embarrassed at a Baptist Church. how to worship
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
– Brazilian emerging church leaders are doing the rounds in Europe. Check them out in England at the Tribal Generation event, Nov 27th. Click image to enlarge for details. – Mark DeVine speaks well of the Emerging Church on MP3, making it safe for emerging Baptists to come out of hiding. – Carson Clark responds…
Read MoreThe Antioch Gathering 2009
The Antioch Gathering last week was one of the most important mission/church event of 2009. It was probably also the least blogged and least photographed church event this year. Anyway, the innovative Christian leaders conference last week was held in Turkey which, although the birthplace of Christian missions, is now quite a sensitive spot to…
Read MoreMakers comes and Geocities goes.
More Geek stuff of intest: – Makers: Cory has a new book called Makers being serialized at Tor. It comes out November. I met Cory at Tech Active in London – Yahoo just pulled the plug on Geocities which was the host for my first blog “Andrew’s Tea Salon” back in 1997. We had no…
Read MoreSimChurch
Douglas Estes releases his book SimChurch which deals with virtual communities and cyberchurch. Douglas came over to London for our Cyberchurch Symposium earlier in the year. Its a good book and a helpful addition to the literature, of which there isn’t a whole lot. A blog tour is connected to the book. Start with Cynthia.…
Read MoreBless Your Social Media Luv’in Little Hearts
Wow! Its been amazing and really heart-warming to see so many of you pitch in to help us launch into the next season. People have created their own widgets on our behalf, pur other widgets on their blogs, promoted our cause through twitter and facebook and good old fashioned email, and suggested ways to use…
Read MoreTSK Photo from Australia
This TSK photo was just sent to me from Andrew Hamilton in Australia. A guy has been living in this caravan since 1969. Thanks mate! She’s a beauty!
Read MoreSwissing Up your blog with Swiss Miss
Tina Roth Eisenberg of Swiss Miss was sitting in front of me at The Feast. She is a web design guru with a huge following among designers and geeks. It was really nice to meet her but I have to say that her blog is sooooooo much better looking than mine which now appears SCRUFFY…
Read MoreHow to Measure Change
“You measure change, not by behaviors altered in the first generation, but by what the next generation takes as a given.” This was my most re-twittered twitter for the day. The sentence was given to me, not by a presenter, but by participant Brad Sargent (futuristguy) who is actually paraphrasing Helen Haste. I edited it…
Read MoreClean water for the world though Charity: Water
Rod Arnold and Becky Straw of Charity Water are talking at The Feast. Its only 3 years old but they have already acheived amazing things, thanks to participation by an ARMY of talented companies and individuals. Check out the same video we just saw here at YouTube. Values: Community ownership, financial viability, cultural contextual, comprehensive…
Read MoreThe Sanitary Pad Blog Post
Elizabeth beat out 1500 applicants to receive the Echoing Green award for her Big Idea . . .which was . . . to tackle the problem of young girls missing school in Africa because they were menstrating. Her solution involved “amplifying girls’ and women’s economic potential by launching female-run franchises that manufacture and distribute low…
Read MoreChanging the World through mobile technology
I just had a good chat with Ken Banks of Kiwanja, a guy who has been working on mobile technology and sms solutions for 6 years. He is currently presenting a talk to us here at The Feast. Big focus on Africa which doesn’t have much internet coverage so mobile solutions are the way to…
Read MoreSlow Food Movement and Joshua Viertel
Josh Viertal is speaking here at The Feast and asking how many of us have “recently engaged in an agricultural act.” All of us have, obviously. Josh is President of Slow Food USA, a movement that I have always appreciated. He is talking about school lunches under the Time For Lunch campaign, diabetes, obesity, waste,…
Read MoreThe Feast: Memes, ideas, people and their links
Worthy links from the Feast event. Click your way to an inspired future. All the presentations are here. Rod Arnold of Charity Water M ss ng P eces Kaos Pilots in Norway. Lemonade Movie – coming soon Dr. Jay Parkinson, a physician who is re-imaging health care, recommends a look at faith based Medi-share system.…
Read MoreEntrepreneurs Can Change the World
This video on entrepreneurs was just shown to us, courtesy of Grasshopper.
Read MoreAnnie Duke on Poker Wisdom
“Good poker players bet the smallest amount that they think will accomplish their goals.” Annie Duke used her PhD to become the world’s best poker player and is now funding social enterprise overseas. She is speaking to us right now at the Feast. Betting small: – never takes you out of the game – gives…
Read MoreAt The Feast, New York
This is our crazy group of international conspirators attending The Feast at the Times Center. This good looking guy is me. That shine on my head is from my receding hairline. I reveal it to you here on my blog because I trust you not to make fun of me. My friend Shelton Green is…
Read MoreJoining ProBlogger Community
“The vision I have for ProBlogger.com is for it to be a private forum where bloggers can come to collaborate, network and learn together about how to improve their blogs.” Darren Rowse My friend Darren of Problogger is kicking off a community dimension of his great blog. Join today to become a founding member and…
Read MoreThe Feast Conference for Social Entrepreneurs
Well. I arrived in New York and am staying in Queens in an apartment with 6 other very cool people who are all participating in the Feast event tomorrow. Who is here? Sweet Notion’s Shannon, Andy and Catherine from London, Jessica is coming up from Texas, Brad Sargent from San Francisco, Johannes from Germany and…
Read MoreEarthquake
Praying God’s peace to bear on this land today after the 7.9 earthquake. And praying resources for faith groups like Abbalove who can help.
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