HourChallenge

I had an encouraging lunch today with a pastor of a very large youth group in Escondido. Time spent = 1.25 hours We hosted the planning group in our home for the alternative Christmas market we’re planning. We have a final vendor list and are close to booking an African band for the event. We’re [...]

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The Children of COAP are pictured above. Here’s something new and exciting. We have decided to partner with God’s Kids to help with an orphanage in Liberia. This project has been in the works for some time. We very recently received a packet of information from Mark Leonard, the Director of Ministry Connections at God’s [...]

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9/6  Catching up on emails related to various projects Time spent = 20 min Blogging Time spent = 1 hour Alternative market planning with Crissy Time spent = 15 min 9/7 Now this is a little point of contention between my wife and I.  It’s nothing major really, just a disagreement over semantics.  As many, [...]

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9/3 Spent a fair amount of time responding to an article on a blog but then found out the author didn’t allow comments.  Leave it to the hyper-Reformed folks to block comments on a blog. Time wasted spent = 30 minutes Reading feeds Time spent = 45 minutes Reading a book titled The AIDS Crisis [...]

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Had Mom and Dad over today. We mostly just visited and did manage to spend some time talking about poverty issues. I’m hoping they will be in our JustFaith group this January. Time spent = 30 min Blogging Time spent = 15 minutes Update email for our alternative market and minutes from our last meeting. [...]

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Today was a busy day. I had a meeting this morning with George Jonson who I’ve written about several times. We talked in depth about the Audiobook project and about podcasting an upcoming sermon series he will preach later this year. George is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Time spent = 45 [...]

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8/29 I can’t find my notes for this day.  I did spend at least an hour doing who knows what.  I need to be more organized! 8/30 I spent the evening with good friends from our local group Christians Ending Poverty updating them on things and discussing the alternative Christmas market, the JustFaith studies we [...]

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Lot’s of little things filled up the old hour today. Dropped an offering of letters packet and other info by a church we’re hoping to work with. Time spent = 10 minutes Traded emails  with the scheduler for Congressman Bilbray’s office.  I have a meeting now with an aide in the Solana Beach office on [...]

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8/26 off (Sunday) Today is our anniversary (13 years)! It was also our youngest son’s 2nd day of Kindergarten. Just thought I’d pass this important info along. OK, on to my hour log. Since taking up this hour-a-day challenge I am always looking for opportunities to be a voice for the oppressed, the orphan and [...]

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I’ve mentioned George Johnson’s book in several posts.  Well, I spoke with George today by phone about the (coming soon) HC podcast. He may allow us to record an audio version of his book Beyond Guilt.  We plan to offer it here as free give away and at Christianaudio. We’re working through the specifics of [...]

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