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Help Build a Playground in India!

I’d like to DOUBLE YOUR MONEY! How? Read on! Imagine being a part of something that is humanly impossible – but that God is clearly behind! Barney Kinard, our Kidology Coach of Kidhelper.com (Creative Children’s Ministries) has partnered with Kids Around the World to build a playground in India and along with it, do an evangelistic mission trip. Barney is currently raising funds for the trip the Kidology Foundation is going to pitch in with a MATCHING GRANT. If you would prayerfully consider giving toward this awesome project, Kidology will match your gift up to $500 toward this project! Help us send $1000 toward this wonderful project that will have a lasting impact on some of the world’s poorest kids. You can read more about this trip on Barney’s website. He has really picked up a passion for India since he was there last year and I’d love to encourage him by helping to raise some funds for the trip. These pictures are of the VERY KIDS who will soon have their own wonderfull playground to play on – but the trip is about much more than a playground. The playground is a tangible way to show the children and…

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Weekend Warrior

As I sit here to blog my whole body is sore and tired but my heart is full and satisfied. Most of my readers probably won’t be interested in this post… (sorry) but I’m posting anyway for some family friends I’d like to show my weekend projects to. Let me just say, I LOVE one day projects that cost more in personal labor than dollars, and this weekend I tackled two! SATURDAY’S MISSION: Restore life and beauty to the backyard flower garden! I cut out this little corner a few years ago and every year I love to do the flowers. It’s kind of a gift to my wife for her view out the kitchen window. In a few weeks it will be overflowing with flowers! Cool thing is, it started to pour rain just as I finished. I also jazzed up the front yard a bit with flowers hanging in our swing, in a pots by the driveway (both ends) and added some stepping stones. Fun! SUNDAY’S MISSION: (after church, of course!) Create a Play Park in the backyard for my little Luke! He went with us to the stores after church and then I was able to create…

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What Happened to the Bible?

Jump over to DiscipleBlog.com where I posted a thought provoking article on what I am calling the Bibleless Trend in Children’s Ministry. I am certain if you teach children the Bible you will find it just might give you pause for consideration – or encourage you if you are not part of this rapidly growing trend that has rendered thousands of evangelical children’s ministries void of actual Bibles in children’s ministry! Let me know our thoughts there on at this post. Go there now. There is a great discussion on the post on Kidology.org Join the discussion!

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Yosemite Summit 2008 Video

(Reprinted from Yosemite Summit for my blog readers) Don’t miss the video at the end, and click any picture for a larger view. It’s hard to believe the Yosemite Summit 2008 is over. It’s been several weeks, but it still feels like a part of me is still there in the Sierra Nevada. It’s been fun sorting through the 5000+ pictures we took and reliving the fun memories. Not only the incredible PLACE we were, but the awesome friendships that were formed and will continue to grow in the years ahead. It was an amazing time together and God did some incredible work in our lives. For me, my soul comes alive in this place and I finally feel truly free. We started our first day watching the sun rise at Glacier Point. The views are simply spectacular! It was a time to leave the busyness and noise of normal life behind and just listen to God. There were times we could just sit and soak our souls in the presence of God as well as walking with Him on the incredible hikes. There is just something powerful about reading God’s Word and praying when you are in a place…

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Finally, the Perfect PDA!

I am happy to announce that I finally have discovered the perfect PDA, and no, it’s not the iPhone. (which stupidly has no task management – even though Tasks is an integrated part of Mac Mail and Mac iCal – despite everything else amazing about it.) Thanks to my buddy, aka BalloonPastor, who linked it on his blog. It is called PocketMod! It is an awesome PAPER organizer you can use throughout your day to record the “stuff” that comes up. But it is BETTER than that, through an online interactive guide, you get to determine what is on each page, with MANY to choose from! After you determine what you want on each page from lines to calendars to shopping lists, etc. you just print, fold and after one cut – you have the perfect PDA! No batteries to run out – no stylus – nearly indestructible (from dropping anyway) and ready to go. Here are the simple folding instructions If you are a fan of David Allen’s book Getting Things Done, you will love this easy and practical tool for making sure you capture all those stray thoughts so you to can have a “mind like water.” (you’ll…

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