From the monthly archives:

December 2009

My 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2009!

December 31, 2009

I Experienced a Miracle and I’m Not a Loon 183 comment(s) Weed Smoking Volunteers 103 comment(s) Drastic Measures to Avoid Moral Failure 101 comment(s) Pastors of All Colors & Genders 75 comment(s) Too Many Hoops to Jump Through: Pre-Marital Counseling, Ellen, and Gay Dudes 69 comment(s) How Does Our Church Approach…Homosexuality? 64 comment(s) The (White [...]

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The Top 10 Moments of 2009 (ALL TEN MOMENTS)

December 31, 2009

I love reading Top 10 Lists @ the end of the year (best songs, best movies, best athletes, etc.)! Well, Courageous Church is almost one year old and I wanted to get in on the fun and create a top ten list of my favorite Courageous Church moments in 2009! Over the course of the [...]

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Last Day to GIVE in 2009!

December 31, 2009

Hello! I hope that you are doing very, very well! I am so excited for 2010 and will be sending you a greeting tomorrow with some details of what’s ahead! I wanted to let you know that TODAY is the VERY LAST DAY to make a charitable donation for the 2009 tax year and you [...]

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10 Favorite Courageous Church Moments from 2009 (Moments #6 & #5)

December 24, 2009

#6 – Atlanta AIDS Hospice Christmas Party (December, 2009) For the past 6 months a small team from Courageous Church has been visiting a private AIDS hospice for men in inner city Atlanta.  When we started going there, I honestly thought that we were going there to be a big blessing for some men that [...]

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Front Page of the AJC!

December 23, 2009

// We’re on the front page of the AJC today and would love for YOU to check it out!  When we do good work in the city we don’t do it to get press coverage, but we thank God for it!  More good news needs to be in the news anyway! (Shout out to Melissa [...]

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10 Favorite Courageous Church Moments from 2009 (Moments #8 & #7)

December 20, 2009

#8 Moving our Sunday Service & Breakfast to the Red Cross Shelter for Flood Victims (September 2009) Thousands of people lost their homes in the Atlanta floods.  (I’ll talk more about this in another favorite moment.)  When we learned that hundreds of victims were living in a Red Cross shelter, we decided to up and [...]

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10 Favorite Courageous Church Moments from 2009 (Moments #10 & #9)

December 19, 2009

I love reading Top 10 Lists @ the end of the year (best songs, best movies, best athletes, etc.)! Well, Courageous Church is almost one year old and I wanted to get in on the fun and create a top ten list of my favorite Courageous Church moments in 2009!  Over the course of the [...]

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10 Social Networking & Fundraising Lessons We Learned from 500toys.org

December 16, 2009

Wow! We had a blast yesterday @ our BIG GIVE for 500toys.org! Seeing the culmination of so much hard work made it all worth it! See the NBC NEWS video here!  I have received dozens and dozens of questions on how we did what we did and wanted to take a few moments out to [...]

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News Video of Our Gift Wrapping Party & BIG GIVE!

December 16, 2009

Our friends @ 11Alive News (NBC) came through to film our gift wrapping & BIG GIVE for 500toys.org! Check it out! (My favorite part is the boy @ 1:03 that has a grin from ear to ear and starts flapping his arms like a butterfly :-)

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We Did It! (Thank You, Monday Gift Wrapping, Tuesday Big Give)

December 13, 2009

Thank you! Because of your generosity and hard work, we raised $22,500 online in less than a month and will be able to provide EVERY STUDENT @ Stanton Elementary School in inner city Atlanta a brand new toy and a very high quality school uniform.  I am so proud of what we accomplished together. 404 [...]

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Last Weekday to GIVE @ 500toys.org

December 11, 2009

Hey Everybody! Today is the last weekday to give @ 500toys.org and we need YOUR help in a major way! 268 people have donated a total $15,446 and we are just about $7,000 away from our goal! If you can just give $1 or you can give $1,000 -please give and help us reach our [...]

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I Have No Plan B

December 8, 2009

Several people have asked me, “What if we don’t raise the money needed to purchase all of the toys & uniforms for the kids…what’s plan B?” I have no plan B. I rarely do. 222 awesome people have donated $12,810 so far and we are $9,690 away from our goal. We (not me, not they, [...]

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Dreams So Big It Feels Like My Head Will Explode

December 8, 2009

I’m a dreamer.  Not at night. I never dream while I’m asleep. My body hurts too much and the baby cries. I’m a day-dreamer and lately my dreams have been vivid, specific, and so big that I can hardly contain them. I see us raising all $22,500 to help kids in inner city Atlanta this [...]

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I Thought You Were Dead Man!

December 7, 2009

I haven’t always been Pastor Shaun King :-) As a matter of fact, for a few years of my life I would have probably cussed you out if you told me I was one day going to become Pastor Shaun King.  I definitely had other plans for myself that had nothing to do with church.  [...]

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$10 from iTunes & Integrity if YOU Donate ANY Amount @ 500toys.org

December 4, 2009

500toys.org is so much fun because it takes hundreds of people to come together from all around the world for it succeed!  Last year nearly 350 people from 22 states and several countries helped us raise over $20,000 to ensure that every child in an inner city Atlanta elementary school got a toy of their [...]

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Pray Hard for Pastor Matt Chandler and…

December 2, 2009

Many of you may know that I have several health conditions that will eventually require some pretty life altering surgeries.  When that happens, I hope you pray for me, my family, the doctors, and Courageous Church like crazy. Well, today we NEED to pray for Pastor Matt Chandler.  One of the best preachers in the [...]

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