Hello. My name is jeff sawyer. I'm the children's pastor at Cy-fair Christian Church in Houston, TX. I just passed the journal sent to me on to the next person.
I looked through the suggestions in the journal. . .so many good ideas. We decided to do our own project. There is a family in our community that just recently lost their home in a fire after lightning struck it. The family made it out okay, but lost all their belongings. They left town this week on vacation. One of our team wanted to do something to be a blessing to this family, so we organized a crew to come in to do some clean-up and landscaping, while they are gone. Our group is gathering in the morning.
What a privilege to be used by God to bless others.
Thanks for the challenge to impact our world in this way,
Jeff
Perry Noble shares about the leadership culture at New Spring Church, how members of their church are given ownership of all that happens, AND the importance of "Being Yourself!"
Perry is a fresh voice in the church; take a minute and hear from the heart of a man who wants nothing more than to walk with Jesus and help others to do the same.
What helps you "be yourself?"
Catalyst Voices - Perry Noble from Catalyst on Vimeo.
Passion's online effort to change the world : ONE MILLION CAN
Does anyone know what this is?
Art inspired by the sermon on the mount : here, here and here
Most awesome design gallery collective ever : behance.net
Cool furniture from : the Style Files
Amazing art and architecture : thecoolhunter.net
Superb graphic inspiration
“The church of the future will be a bungalow on Maple Street, not a megastructure in a sea of parking spaces. It’s intimacy of experience people long for, not production values.” — The Way We’ll Be, p. 215.
"Zogby quotes one house church enthusiast, 'What is so exciting about doing small-group house church is just the chance to be real.' Authenticity, not high production values, is what First Globals are seeking."
Chuck Warnock posted these quotes from John Zogby's latest book.
In a culture innundated with false advertising, that's disillusioned with "religion" and easy answers, some say there's a higher and higher value being placed on humility, authenticity and "reality" - which seems to be found in deep community.
Do you see this trend happening? Why or why not?
Mashable has a list of 140+ Twitter applications! What's your favorite Twitter app and why do you use it?
We use twitterfox. It attaches to firefox and makes tweets pop-up in the lower right hand corner of your browser, so you can keep up without going back to twitter.com/home , and you can reply and tweet from the little box.
Wow! It's so amazing how Twitter has grown so much in recent months! Why is it so popular? It must scratch a serious itch. What itch does Twitter scratch?
And, 140 applications! We are firmly in the middle of Web 2.0 - perhaps Web 3.0 is when we start using hundreds of desktop applications that work in tandem with the internet to better gather, refine, and communicate information. It feels like a new age for the internet - something significant is happening. Do you feel it?
PS - Be sure & follow us if you aren't already - twitter.com/catalystatlanta
