HourChallenge

If you follow the blog you might have wondered where I’ve been over the last week+. Well, we’ve been running around like mad people busy pulling together all of the last minute details surrounding the much anticipated and much attended alternative gift market. The event was a success by all measures (I’ll fill you all [...]

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Tuesday 11/6 Spent some time today updating my personal email list and asked everyone I know to go on the record let the 2008 presidential candidates know that we want to hear where they stand on extreme poverty. Time spent = 1 hour The On the Record Petition: As a member of ONE, I write [...]

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I’ve been keeping up on my commitment to spend an hour each day doing my part in the fight to end extreme poverty.  Truth be told, I just got busy and a little board of writing daily hour logs.  I thought I’d start posting some logs again this month, though, just to keep anyone who [...]

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9/30 Sunday off 10/1 Today was a productive day with many little things filling up my hour+. I met with a friend to catch up over breakfast. It was an engaging conversation that, of course, included some talk about poverty, global issues and even politics (you can only do that with a good friend). Time [...]

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9/22 Saturdays have been sketchy at best these days; I don’t have any notes whatsoever. I do know that this painting project is killing me. I feel like hiring somebody at this point which makes no sense because I’m almost done and I can’t afford it! I should be feeling better when the homeowners association [...]

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9/19 Spoke with David Gist who is Bread For the World’s west coast, regional coordinator. We went over an agenda for our 9/21 meeting. Time spent = 15 minutes Installed a program to edit the first audio that’s come in for the HourChallenge Podcast!! Should have the first episdoe up soon. Time spent = 15 [...]

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  I met a good friend for lunch today who has just taken a bold leap of faith. He is working in partnership with World Vision to bring churches together to transform villages in Malawi. You can learn more about the work they are doing at y-malawi.com. We’re going to Aliso Viejo next week to [...]

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  9/16 I normally don’t track my time or comment on Sundays but I should mention that this was our first week leading the high school group at church.  They seemed genuinely excited about the topics we suggested – AIDs, slavery, Poverty, the Environment, inspiring lives of Wilberforce, John Bunyan & Mother Teresa,etc.  It’s a [...]

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9/13 I was out of town most of today for a work strategy meeting and didn’t get around to doing much of anything. 9/14 Wow, looking back today was another busy day! I met with a good friend over lunch to catch up and pitch a harebrained idea I had to raise money for our [...]

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Today, with many others, I participated in a rolling fast to promote debt cancellation.  I visited Brian Bilbray’s office to ask him to vote for the Jubilee Act (HR 2634) which expands debt cancellation to many countries that were not included in the 2005 G8 agreement.  He is planning to vote for the bill!  Other [...]

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