Tag: san diego
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Learn from me on December 3rd
If you live in Southern California (or are willing to come visit) I am hosting 2 classes on December 3rd through a brand new website, Skillshare. Growing your business with Mailchimp How to get started with Mailchimp, set-up and grow your lists, and grow your business Mailchimp is an amazingly powerful tool. Whether you are…
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San Diego blackout live blog
4:00ish – they power went out, first we thought it was just a breaker. Ten a neighbor banged on our door. 4:05 – saw on twitter lots of activity. Hearing it’s out all over San Diego. Crazy! 4:08 – trolleys are down, people are leaving work. Beer thirty came early! Thankful I didn’t go back…
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Being Good News
Today’s video post is a synopsis of about 10 conversations I’ve had in the last 60 days. All of them get to the question, “Adam, something has changed inside of you. I like it sometimes and I don’t like it sometimes, what is it?” One thing I’ve learned to get comfortable with in the last…
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Rules for Public Transportation
We are a one car household. Fortunately for us, we live in a city where you can get away with having just one car because we have a decent public transportation system. Our transportation system, San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, also has a policy that permits bikes. This allows me the daily privilege of riding…
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Thankful
Thankful. That’s just about the only word that can describe my heart right now. The last week at NYWC left me completely spent both physically and mentally– but I sit here now with my spirit soaring. Feet aching, eyes leaky, and thankful. Back in December I had this silly belief that YS’s best days were…
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New Heights Project highlight video
A few weeks ago I mentioned something our youth ministry does over the summer. We hire a group of high school students to run our children’s ministry outreach program. Here’s a highlight video they showed in church at the end of their experience. I’m so thankful for the impact these students had on our community!…
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Nehemiah vs. The American Church
I love the audacity great faith brings. It’s idealistic. It’s over-the-top. It’s incomprehensibly arrogant simplicity. It’s stupid fun to be around. And that’s why I love my church. This little church in the city truly believes they can be instrumental in seeing a new San Diego rise up to be an amazing place to live.…
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Summer update
Summer officially began on Memorial Day, 5 weeks ago. A whole hodgepodge of things have happened. Lisa has been here for just over a month. So far that has pretty well. She does fit into the flow of our house… so it really hasn’t been hard at all. Finding volunteer work for her for the…
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Urban Farming Inspiration
Kristen and I are now 5 months into our experiment. Our goal is to grow or purchase 25% of our food locally in 2010. So far, it’s been a fun experiment! And in the process we’ve found a hobby that the whole family can participate in. One thing that has been incredibly satisfying is knowing…
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Beach day
Stoney rules!, originally uploaded by mclanea. Today we took the whole family on an outing to dog beach. We all had a great time, but I think Stoney had the most fun of all. Here’s a link to the rest of our pictures from the beach.