January 2010

The New Word for HAITI…ORGANIZE!

January 25, 2010

If I had to pick one word that would describe our relief efforts for Haiti LAST WEEK it would be EMERGENCY!  Going into day 14 though, the new word to describe our relief efforts must become ORGANIZE.  It is now abundantly clear to most that we are dealing with an emergency, but our response now, [...]

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See Our Tweets on the NBC Nightly News

January 24, 2010

Pretty amazing stuff. I am more convinced than ever that social technology is changing our world and making it much smaller.  This entire video is great. At 1:10 into this NBC Nightly News video you will see how one of many volunteers on the ground in Haiti saw a 911 tweet I wrote last week [...]

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Twitter = No Red Tape = Finding Sanjay 5 Neurosurgeons!

January 20, 2010

Red tape is old school. It’s 2010 doggone it. Last Tuesday thousands of Haitian men, women, and particularly children suffered traumatic brain injuries, skull fractures, and every other type of head injury imaginable. One problem. After the quake – Port Au Prince had ZERO neurosurgeons. Consequently, Dr. Sanjay Gupta (there as a medical journalist for [...]

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Need $4,000 Right Away

January 19, 2010

Update:: We hit this goal in the middle of the night. — I need to purchase emergency plane tickets to Haiti for a team of neurosurgeons leaving in the morning.  It will cost about $4,000. I need the money right now. Please give here. (WE DID IT! Thank everybody for giving…that was not easy.) I [...]

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4 Panasonic Toughbooks Needed…YESTERDAY.

January 17, 2010

I have not asked for any money from anybody for Haiti.  However, I now have an extremely URGENT request.  Let me clarify.  When I say urgent, I mean LIFE & DEATH. Several of my friends in Haiti are in desperate, immediate (as in yesterday) need of high power, military-grade laptop computers.  We need four of [...]

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Details on 4 Emergency Meetings for Haiti

January 14, 2010

I thought about adding a horrifying photo or video here, but you’ve seen them.  It’s bad. Here’s the thing though – YOU can help bring HOPE to Haiti. If you are broke or have money – you can do this.  If you have a passport or not – you can do this.  If you have [...]

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We’re Turning 1!!!!! RSVP & Get Details Now!

January 12, 2010

(RSVP Here Now) WOW! (Scroll down to learn of some VERY COOL GIVEAWAYS) Can you believe that Courageous Church (http://CourageousChurch.com) is turning ONE YEAR OLD?!? What a year! To celebrate our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY we are moving our Sunday morning services to the campus of Morehouse College! The college asked us to host the MLK [...]

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MAJOR Announcement about Our Service Tomorrow! MAJOR!

January 9, 2010

Tomorrow Only! A Snuggie Contest @ Courageous Church! #1: Yep.  I’m serious.  We have a SPECIAL PRIZE for any person that wears a SNUGGIE to either our 9am or 11am service this Sunday!  It’s cold out and so many of you joked last Sunday that you wish you wore yours so now I’m giving pastoral [...]

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What Happens When You’re Not Prepared for Snow

January 8, 2010

(Warning…I do attempt to squeeze a leadership lesson out of this weather report.) People in Chicago (and everywhere else up North) make fun of us here in Atlanta. They think we’re wimps.  It snowed about an inch last night and our city is a TOTAL MESS!  People are wrecking everywhere and a 29 car pile-up [...]

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Let the Baby Cry

January 7, 2010

Our pediatrician told us recently that we were really in the season where we needed to let our baby cry at night. This is easier said than done.  We love her so much! Hearing her cry breaks our heart.  She wants us.  She needs us. Right? Kind of. If we don’t begin to let her [...]

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How Cut & Paste in Ministry Ignores Context

January 7, 2010

News flash! Launching a growing church is hard work. In an attempt to save time and not reinvent the wheel, Courageous Church has borrowed forms and a few systems from other churches that we really admire.  I would still strongly endorse this practice, but I am learning how cutting and pasting content from forms sometimes [...]

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