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God bless, Texas.

As you might imagine, at night our group is tired. Very tired. The days our long, and hot, and very sweaty.

My friend Nancy Tyler (Board moderator as well), sent me this old relic this morning along with some words of encouragement.

This AP profile of the person in charge of the 2008 Democratic Convention, Leah Daughtry, nicely showcases the role religion will play in this year's presidential election.

I talked to Moise today and asked him how we could pray for him. He said, “Pete, there are three thing for you to pray for.”

1) Pray for the church. Pray that we will continue to reach this community and that many Haitians will come to know Christ.

2) Pray for my desire to know God and study His Word.

Dear Politicians:

I went to the 34th annual Bethlehem Fish Fry today, an event that helps
the ministry of the church. One of the members had shared how good the
food was, the fellowship, the events for the kids. I was going because
of her personal invitation.

Imagine my surprise when I got there to see dozens and dozens of

Today was our last day of construction. It rained on and off all day which complicated things but we still had a blast and worked hard. As you might imagine, everyone misses their friends and families. I thought it would be fun to record everyone giving a little love to people back home. Here you go….

Eleven years ago this Summer my dad forwarded a piece to me from Texas. It was a letter from governor George W.

The Cosmic Dance

What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What
in God might
appear to us as "play" is perhaps what He Himself takes most
seriously. At any rate
the Lord plays and diverts Himself in the garden of His creation, and if
we could let
go of our own obsession with what we think is the meaning of it all, we
might be able

Today I’m living up to my random tendencies and just throwing out some fun stuff for you guys to look at.

The local paper in our local community Mt. Juliet is publishing some FINE journalism:

Excellent article by Fr. Michael Burke.

http://www.mburkeop.com/med_prayingoutofweakness.htm

There's a great article over at Nashville City Paper--"Just do it" by Lindsay Ferrier, regarding the challenge of intimacy between husband and wife after children join the family.

There's a great article over at Nashville City Paper--"Just do it" by Lindsay Ferrier, regarding the challenge of intimacy between husband and wife after children join the family.

How can we consistently show those in developed, consumer-driven countries that places like this exist? That, although, these places need clean water, sanitation, food and medical care, we need their hope, simplicity, community, and generosity?

How can we connect the two? Is there even a way?

I had the pleasure of getting to know Sam briefly while living in Nashville.

Boomama has posted a picture of a sunset.  She’s on vacation.  She got 29 comments.  From a sunset.

I see your sunset (over Puget Sound), Mama of Boo…

...and raise you some cows.  These particular cows I met in Washington last weekend.

i never can seem to translate what is in my head after visiting a slum. a true, third-world slum. the sights and smells and naked babies and starved dogs and sweat and raw sewage and shacks and the most impacting thing.

hope.

Today was another day of hauling buckets of sand and water and cement blocks. This team is resilient and they continue to fight the heat and exhaustion. Thought you would enjoy seeing all of them in action!

I have to ask as Thursday’s Question:  What are you doing to curb fuel costs? 

In case those of you back home wonder what we eat while visiting with our sister church in the D.R.. Here you go…

I was wrong.  The Chick-fil-A in Carmel, Indiana I played today didn’t bring me in for a grand opening.  Nope.  They’ve been open since December 2006!  Today, was what they called “Camp Chick-fil-A.” It’s one of a week’s worth of themed days - creating some fun for families in their community and a lot of buzz.

Words cannot do today justice, at least of my own experience. I have a picture which will tell a story I will never forget.

Sure, everyone worked their tails off, moving thousands (literally) of buckets of sand, water, and concrete up and down stairs…but my own personal highlight included a Dominican Spa Facial.

Today was a long day but I was so PROUD of the team. They worked REALLY hard. We tied re-bar, carried almost 400 hundred buckets of sand to the second floor along with a couple hundred buckets of water so we could mix concrete.

The church is looking great. The walls of the second floor are almost complete!

My name is Shaun and I’m driving five hours today for Christian chicken.

Today, in the city of Carmel, Indiana, a new Chick-fil-A is opening.  And I will be there, guitar in hand, strumming and singing for ninety minutes in exchange for free Chick-fil-A for an entire year.

I Just Wanted You To Love Me