“Every 19 seconds a mother looses her child due to water born diseases…”
A great new video from Charity:Water…
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15 albums that will stay with you forever
Via Stewart: There is a meme bouncing around Facebook at the moment…
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. (If you’re on Facebook: To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note– upper right hand side.)??
I’m breaking the rules. I’m not going to tag anyone (either) but if you feel like answering the meme either on your own blog or in the comments below. I’d be interested to know.
- They Might be Giants – Apollo 18
- Nirvana – Nevermind
- U2 – Achtung Baby
- dcTalk – Jesus Freak
- Weezer – Weezer (the Blue album)
- Green Day – Dookie
- Nirvana – MTV Unplugged
- Beach Boys – 20 Good Vibrations, The Greatest Hits
- U2 – Rattle and Hum
- George Straight – Pure Country Soundtrack
- The Beatles – 1967-1970 (The Blue Album)
- Audio Adrenaline – Don’t Censor Me
- Jars of Clay – Jars of Clay
- Aerosmith – Big Ones
- U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
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Today ends our campaign
BTW – Today is the last day of the campaign with charity:water to raise $5000 to build a fresh water well for those in need.
So far we’ve raised $150 — enough to give clean, fresh drinking water to 7 people for the next 20 years! That’s awesome! But I know that as Insurgents of Love we can do better than that.
It’d be great to reach our goal of $5000 by day’s end — but I’ll be realistic and admit that’s a really unlikely chance — but perhaps each you’ll prove me wrong…. (hint, hint, hint).
Yes, money’s tight. Yes, you’re being hit up for money from all sides… but if you could spare a few dollars today to get us one step closer to that goal, you can help us change the life of those in desperate need.
And my offer to give away a free e-book copy of my novel to everyone who donates, still stands. Any donation, of any amount today will receive an e-book (PDF) copy of my novel. Think of it as “name your own price” to help those in need and get a free novel along the way.
So — will you help? Will you donate?
Thanks in advance!
Donate now.
Help us build a well
Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us.
Over at We Live Simply (We Live Simply so Others May Simply Live) we’re working with charity:water to raise money for a new fresh water well for those in need.
Give them away…
Give them away
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell
Been chewing on this idea and quote from Shane Claiborne’s book “The Irresistible Revolution”
Thought I’d do some quick word art (with my favorite font currently – sketch rockwell) to illustrate it.
Anyone seen this play out in their own life?
Dying to preferences
Imagine living in a house with 20 people when you don’t enjoy entertaining people. Yikes!
The Generous Husband writes…
A few months ago my bride and I attended a meeting on “new monasticism” – living in intentional, multi-family groups. Yeah, that can be a commune in all the ugly ways, but it can also be something good. But I only mention it here because of something said to me by the man who owned the house in which we met. This fellow, a bit older than I, said he did not like entertaining – and I commented on how odd that was given that he regularly had a group of 20 or more in his home. He then said “I am learning to die to my preferences.”
I think that’s a lot of what we as followers of Christ are called to do.
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Laundry Love Project :: additional notes
A few additional notes…
After our “surprise” visit to the Glenn Heights Wash and Dry last month, we requested permission from the owner in order to post flyers and such letting people know we would be offering free laundry on the last Saturday of the month.
While we weren’t able to talk with the owner directly, we were told she wasn’t interested via another employee. It was frustrating, but we pushed ahead and decided to go wash our own laundry and then simply offer free laundry for those around us.
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