Charlie beat me to the punch. Before I could get anything on my site about Haiti this young boy has already raised a fortune! Charlie Simpson, a 7-year-old kid from London, saw the graphic images from Haiti on his television and told his mom he had to do something about it. So he did. He told his mom he could ride his bike & raise money. She soon launched a giving page online for him and he wrote this little message to donors:"My name is Charlie Simpson. I want to do a sponsored bike ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives. I want to make money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti. I'm going to cycle around South Park as many times as possible (at least 10 laps I hope!) Please can you sponsor me and all your money will go to UNICEF who are collecting for Haiti."
Just last night I was speaking to a group of students. Part of my message was that they have been fed a lie that they are too young to make a difference. This story is proof that they are not.Charlie's site has raised over $160,000 so far! You can add to that by giving on Charlie's site [here] or feel free to give through World Vision or the Red Cross, two great organizations doing incredible work on the ground right now in Haiti.
Labels: Culture, News, Social Justice, World Watch
Labels: Culture, Hot Topics, News, Politics, World Watch
I must confess, I've been a little nervous about the economy. In fact, yesterday in a prayer cell group I'm a part of we prayed for the economy. I think I was okay with things until the President came on television Wednesday evening and declared that our economy was in serious danger. The average joe hears all sorts of terminology on the tube and is clueless to what this means for their sweet family. Enter Dave Ramsey. Thank God for him. He comes in, makes it all practical and gives us hope.I am subscribed to Dave's newsletter and a couple of days ago I received his enewsletter where he shared his thoughts on our current financial crisis and answered a number of questions from the public. I will share a few of his thoughts here... and link to the rest.
Dave Ramsey just told you to take a chill pill... so if you are uptight, do it. I've just taken mine. Click here for more Dave Ramsey goodness.
Labels: Celebrities, Hot Topics, Issues, News, Television, World Watch, Youth Pastors
21 World Accents in just 2.30
Might I add that I thought the Brooklyn attitude was comical and wanted to clarify that 97% of people from Charleston, SC don't speak this way. Other than that, the girl has it nailed.
Might I add that I thought the Brooklyn attitude was comical and wanted to clarify that 97% of people from Charleston, SC don't speak this way. Other than that, the girl has it nailed.
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Labels: Creative, Culture, Students Only, Videos, World Watch, Youth Pastors
Largest Bible Printing Press in China?
3 Comments Published by Terrace Crawford on 1/10/08 at 12:57 PM.
The image you are viewing is an artist's rendering of what will be the largest Bible printing presses in the world The miracle is that it will be located in China!
Dan Lee, tells on his blog that the new printing press is about to open in Nanjing, China which will increase the number of Bibles printed from 3 million a year to 12M a year! For years bibles have been smuggled into the closed country but those days are apparently gone! Praise God.
Click here to read the full story.
(ht to Dan Lee, via Collide)
Labels: Blog Shout, Church, Culture, Marketing, News, World Watch
a very moving video from a great organization I support.
www.wr.org
I'm having some fun this Christmas, bringing to you some creative, funny or interesting videos I run across. It's the 12 Days of Christmas Videos ... right here on my blog.
Labels: Students Only, Videos, World Watch, Youth Pastors
Is Facebook going down? That was a question I read online today as I saw the briefs about Google becoming the fifth largest conglomerate in the corporate world, fourth place going to AT&T (which btw, AT&T, I'd like better service please...the network going down every weekend is for the birds).
After probing a little further I discovered that Google was rolling out a new initiative called Open Social.
What is Open Social?
Basically, the lines are now becoming blurred. Google is the big dog and will play nucleus to all social networks (exluding a main player, Facebook -- at least for the moment) and will allow users to use common applications and code on various social networking sites interchangeably. The lines will become even more blurred as the social moguls join forces.
I thought Seth Godin shared an interesting perspective on all of this in a blog entry he entitled Changing the Game.
Facebook has clearly packed a mean punch... as numerous social networking sites have joined with Google out of their Facebook-Fear, including the most recent additions to team -- MySpace and Six Apart. Will Facebook crumble under the pressure or because of its uniqueness continue to be the boardwalk of our day? Time will tell.
After probing a little further I discovered that Google was rolling out a new initiative called Open Social.
What is Open Social?
Google wants to create an easy way for developers to create an application that works on all social networks. And if they pull it off, they’ll be in the center, controlling the network. OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: Profile Information (user data), Friends Information (social graph), Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff). Hosts agree to accept the API calls and return appropriate data. Google won’t try to provide universal API coverage for special use cases, instead focusing on the most common uses. Specialized functions/data can be accessed from the hosts directly via their own APIs.
Unlike Facebook, OpenSocial does not have its own markup language (Facebook requires use of FBML for security reasons, but it also makes code unusable outside of Facebook). Instead, developers use normal javascript and html (and can embed Flash elements). The benefit of the Google approach is that developers can use much of their existing front end code and simply tailor it slightly for OpenSocial, so creating applications is even easier than on Facebook. (courtesy, TechCrunch.com)
Basically, the lines are now becoming blurred. Google is the big dog and will play nucleus to all social networks (exluding a main player, Facebook -- at least for the moment) and will allow users to use common applications and code on various social networking sites interchangeably. The lines will become even more blurred as the social moguls join forces.
I thought Seth Godin shared an interesting perspective on all of this in a blog entry he entitled Changing the Game.
Facebook has clearly packed a mean punch... as numerous social networking sites have joined with Google out of their Facebook-Fear, including the most recent additions to team -- MySpace and Six Apart. Will Facebook crumble under the pressure or because of its uniqueness continue to be the boardwalk of our day? Time will tell.
Labels: Hot Topics, Technology, World Watch
