Tag: help
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3 Ways to Help McLane Creative Get Off the Ground
A few days ago I relaunched the website for McLane Creative to highlight a new thing I’m doing. It’s called the Concierge Service. It’s a flat fee deal which helps bloggers take their blog/personal brand to the next level. What’s cool about it is that it’s helping people all the way around. I’m helping bloggers.…
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5 Ways to Fight Loneliness in Leadership
It’s lonely at the top. For those who work in the church, we all know it. Those who make it for the long haul either succumb to a lifetime of loneliness and don’t have any real friends or we learn to adapt and find deep connection outside the walls of the church. But loneliness doesn’t…
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Support my Haiti trip
I would greatly appreciate any financial support you can help us with as we head back to Haiti to lead a team on July 19-25. As I mentioned in the video– we are trying to offset these expenses so we can not only honor God with our service but also our financial stewardship at the…
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1.5 Million Still Homeless in Haiti
In a city of 3 million people roughly half are still homeless four months after the earthquake. Why is a country, once rich in natural resources, a nation whose slave population rose up and defeated Napoleon’s army for independence, and given aid for generations by rich nations like the United States and France, still steeped…
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Support Holistic Youth Ministry in San Diego
I’m a part of a team at my church trying to figure out how to create a holistic youth ministry right here in San Diego. What exactly is a holistic youth ministry? Well, we don’t know just yet! But our vision is to architect a ministry that is good news to the urban working poor…
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Pointing towards Captain Obvious
I love this video for two reasons. First, the guy teaches a skill that I didn’t know but would have saved me a lot of time and frustration. How many times have I laid out a 100 foot extension cord and spent 20 minutes untangling it? Second, I love how this guy almost talks down…
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Weekly Column Ideas
Over at Youth Ministry Exchange I’m going to be starting a weekly column. The question is, what should I write about? I don’t think it should be just general youth ministry stuff. Let’s face the fact that right now I don’t have a lot of up-to-the-moment experience that is going to be useful. For a…