March 2010

Relaunch of aHomeInHaiti.org – New Videos, New Tents, New Partners!

March 30, 2010

Hey My Friend! Today is a big day for us and we hope this means it is a big day for Haiti! We just relaunched aHomeInHaiti.org with new videos (including one from actress Eva Longoria), new partners, new tents, and much more! On our website, we have now sent $500,000 of tents to Haiti! That [...]

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Servolution Schedule for this Week!

March 28, 2010

Check out the schedule here!

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Details about our Grant & How YOU Can Help!

March 26, 2010

We just received the news yesterday that aHomeInHaiti.org received a $25,000 matching grant to provide housing solutions for deaf children in Haiti. It is my hope to raise the matching $25,000 by Easter Sunday. We decided to offer our entire Easter Sunday offering to this cause, but will still need your help. Here are some [...]

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Innovative Long Term Housing Solutions in Haiti

March 25, 2010

For the past few months and for the next few months, my middle name is TENTS. Through aHomeInHaiti.org we have now provided more tents than nearly any other relief organization or country in the world. With the hurricane season coming in a month, long term solutions cannot come fast enough and more tents are needed. [...]

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Quick Favor! I need you to bring…

March 24, 2010

Hey! I need you to buy as many plastic Easter Eggs as you can and bring them to the church between today & Good Friday (including this Sunday morning). They can have candy already in them or you can buy candy to put in them. This is just our way of showing families & kids [...]

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Let’s discuss the ONE WORD you gave on the new health care legislation

March 23, 2010

Just a few hours ago President Obama signed a bill that represents the largest expansion of health care for the United States in my lifetime. I asked you all on Twitter to tell me to describe how you felt about it in just ONE WORD. Here are the words 61 very different people gave… Insured [...]

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Had to Check Myself: Being Willing to Ruin Your Reputation

March 23, 2010

Late last week I received several emotional emails from desperate family members trying to get help for their relative. I get a dozen emails like this a day. People are hurting, but these took me by surprise. More than that though, they caused me to have to really check myself. The emails were from the [...]

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2 Random Things about Our Church Services Yesterday That May Help a Pastor

March 22, 2010

1. Our Sunday attendance has been down 15% since we started small groups 3 weeks ago. Small group attendance is very high. We get great reports. Quoting something we heard Andy Stanley say @ Buckhead Church – I told our congregation that if they “had to choose between attending their small group or their Sunday [...]

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Brand New Courageous Church Website!

March 20, 2010

We have a brand NEW website and hope you can check it out right away @ Courageous.tv! It’s simple, easy to update, and we’re adding new features as I type! It’s actually based on a WordPress theme and was designed by my main man @AntwonDavis. We’re hoping all of you parents will take time to [...]

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Gut-Wrenching Video of What Happens in Haiti When It Rains

March 18, 2010

Seeing the kids @ 2:25 into this video struggle with the tent broke my heart. Help us make a difference @ aHomeInHaiti.org

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How Some Women Have Really Confused Me!

March 16, 2010

I’m not going to be long-winded here because what I really want is for us to have a discussion. I have observed some really strange things with some women in and out of our church over the past 16 months that have really confused me. Let me break it down. The Stereotype: Women cannot find [...]

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Easter Sunday. Courageous Church. 4-4-10!

March 12, 2010

Can’t tell you much more yet, but I have 3 great things to tell you about our Easter Sunday Celebration @ Courageous Church… 1. We’re just having one service @ 10am! 2. We’re moving back here. 3. We’re giving EVERY SINGLE DIME we receive in our offering to aHomeInHaiti.org

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Here’s How You Can Get Free Tickets…

March 11, 2010

I love Quest Community Church. It is a role model church for Courageous Church. It is one of the fastest growing, most creative, vibrant, loving, unselfish communities I know of in the world. Over 10,000 people have come to follow Jesus in the past 10 years through the work of Quest! The pastor, Pete Hise, [...]

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100 HUGE Stock Pots Needed for Haiti

March 8, 2010

My friends @ YELE Haiti are running a great feeding program on the ground in Haiti, but they need more HUGE stock pots to cook food in bulk. Here are the details. Let’s BE THE SOLUTION: Need: 100 90 HUGE Stock Pots (a great church just bought the first 10) Size: 100-200 Quarts Material: Stainless [...]

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Two Amazing Things About Tomorrow!

March 6, 2010

1. Financial Peace University begins tomorrow! We are offering it @ 11am & 1pm! Be there! All of you that signed up already, your kits are ready for pickup! 2. I have hooked up a VERY SPECIAL surprise. It will change your life. You’ll have to be there to find out. No gimmicks (like a [...]

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New NBC Video of aHomeInHaiti.org RT & Spread the Word!

March 4, 2010

Please go to aHomeInHaiti.org and make a difference today!

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DIY Efforts Bring Aid to Haiti (Our Feature on MSNBC)

March 4, 2010

While over $300 million in donations made for Haiti sits in banks and large aid organizations bicker over how to best provide shelter to ailing Haitians, YOU have helped us BE THE SOLUTION with aHomeInHaiti.org! It has now rained nearly 10 different days since the earthquake hit. Hurricane season is coming and our little upstart [...]

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Conservatives, Evangelicals, Haiti: Surprising Shifts on the Ground

March 1, 2010

Soon after the earthquake hit Haiti, I noticed something that surprised me. I studied things on the ground for a few more days before I commented because I wanted to be sure that my observation was correct. When I mentioned my observation on Twitter, the liberal backlash was fierce and I actually started getting hate [...]

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New Video for aHomeInHaiti.org

March 1, 2010

Thanks to my friends @ Victory World Church for filming this and partnering with us on the ground in Haiti!

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