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Austin Street update


From marni:

For a little while now, Brit and I have been thinking about how to get hot coffee to the shelter to hand that out on the cold days as everyone is standing outside waiting to get in. Britney found a solution (I so knew she would!) so this Sunday, we are setting up our own liquid lounge 🙂
Britney has a means of making the coffee from her truck 🙂 but we need containers to keep the coffee hot. We were thinking of the large thermos-like containers that either pour or have the push down spout. If any of you have access to something like that we can borrow for the day, we would put it to good use. I think between us right now, we have 3 thermoses, so that’s a good start.
We’re bringing cups, creamer and sugar. Budget permitting, I think Dane and I will get some reading glasses at Dollar Tree because we haven’t taken those out in a while and people are starting to ask for them. Britney brought home-made goodies last week and they were a hit, so Peyton and I are going to do some baking this weekend and take it Sunday to hand out with the coffee.
We’d love for you guys to come too on Sunday. If you have email addresses for anyone else who may want to come as well, pass this along or send me the email addresses and I’ll make sure they get the info.
See you guys Sunday…

If you’re interested in helping out financially or by coming on Sunday zip me an e-mail. I’ll get you the info you need.

No iPods for you!

A co-worker e-mailed this…
From CNN and AP:

The Bush administration wants North Korea’s attention, so like a scolding parent, it’s trying to make it tougher for that country’s eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.
The U.S. government’s first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run his communist nation.
Kim, who engineered a secret nuclear weapons program, has other options for obtaining the high-end consumer electronics and other items he wants.

At least he can still have his soup.

Exercise those eyes

A co-worker was asking about eye strain today and getting an anti-glare screen for his computer.ex
After a little research I found some interesting exercises on the net.
But here’s the best part of the instructions in my opinion:

When doing these exercises, make sure that you’re not facing anybody, or that they know you’re doing eye exercises. Otherwise they might think you’ve gone nuts.

Writing Rockin’ Content for Your Church Website

From Cory Miller at ChurchCommunicationsPro.com :

Writing effectively for your rockin’ church website is drastically different than writing for printed publications.
Here are some tips for producing effective web text:

  • Avoid Christian-ese
  • Avoid marketing-ese
  • First things first
  • Use short sentences and paragraphs
  • Write headlines with gravitational pull
  • Break up long articles
  • Spotlight key words and phrases
  • Scrub your copy clean

    • Great tips anyone have other suggestions for making a great church website?