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Ice Ice Baby!

I went and saw Vanilla Ice the other night.
and yes he did do the Ninja Rap…
and then gave a shout out to Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo… Check out my pic and then this classic video from 1991! Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!

Awaken – Open Source

Awaken Worship Gathering is on Tuesday nights at 8:00pm.  That is a part of what I do at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church.  In a couple of weeks we are going to try something that we have not ever done at Awaken.  I thought I would put it out here (on my blog) and see if anybody had any comments or suggestions before we dive into it.  

Throughout Lent, at Awaken, we will have “Open Source Sermons”.

This is how it will work….
The overall theme throughout Lent will be spiritual disciplines.  Instead of having a formal “sermon” or “message” for the night we will engage in an open source sermon format.  The idea with open source is that everybody can contribute and give input on different ideas and practices and then use what works best for them.  When it comes to Open Source Sermons we will invite people to openly share their ideas on that particular spiritual discipline.  This will allow others to share practices, found content, and created content on prayer, fasting, simplicity, so on… and how they go about it.

We love to try new and different things at Awaken!
I am very excited about this… and you can check the Awaken Worship Gathering blog to find out how it goes!  You could also just come on out and join us at Awaken.  Check the blog for more details on when, where, and how to get there.

Links for Haiti

This list was put together by a Professor at Texas Wesleyan University. It is a list of several agencies that you can donate to and find out how to help. Thought I would pass it along.

UMCOR
http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?code=418325&id=3018760

Doctors without Borders:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
Note: I know of medical doctors and other volunteers who have worked with this organization in various fronts around the world. They do very good work. It is my understanding that the Haitian hospitals they are associated with have collapsed, and they have set up clinics in the vicinity.

National Nurses United
http://bit.ly/5fyOod
Note: My mother is a nurse, and like Doctors without borders, sending volunteer nurses to Haiti would be quite useful at the moment. As of this writing 4000 registered nurses have volunteered to go. They are currently raising money to send them there.

Yele Haiti:
http://www.yele.org/
Use your cell phone to text “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund.
Note: This is pop star (and Haitian born) Wyclef Jean’s organization that has long been established to battle poverty in Haiti.

Global Girlfriend:
http://www.globalgirlfriend.com/gifts/item.do?itemId=40883
Note: This group works with Women’s groups in Haiti. Also, it is associated with Partners in Health:

Partners in Health
http://www.pih.org/home.html

Plan Canada
https://plancanada.ca/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=1347
Note: I have direct confirmation from Peace Corp members that this group is organized and very helpful in relief efforts in developing parts of the world.

Oxfam:
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/haiti-earthquake/index.php

American Red Cross
https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?4306.donation=form1&idb=1535040882&df_id=4306

Use your cell phone to text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 via the Red Cross

A long list of ways to help is linked here:
http://mashable.com/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake-donate-help/

Another long list provided by the NY Times:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/haiti-disaster-relief-how-to-contribute/

Care International
http://www.care.org

Unicef
https://secure.unicefusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6740&6740.donation=form1

Mercy Corps
http://www.mercycorps.org/haiti?source=E397

Direct Relief International
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx

International Red Cross
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/helpicrc

Catholic Relief Fund
https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3181&3181.donation=form1

Smokey’s BBQ – go to

Smokey’s is so good.  If you have not been lately you need to go back and check it out.  They rereopened… and now it is delicious.  Kyland introduced me to the new Smokey’s BBQ a couple of weeks ago and I can’t stop going– it is a winner!
Smokey’s is on E. Lancaster — 5300 E Lancaster Ave  Fort Worth, TX 76112.
I love the Chopped Beef Sandwich (pictured below). 

Halloween!

I as a giant banana for Halloween.  This gorilla showed up!

Here are some of the other pics from the Halloween party!
CLUE!

Banana and David Bowie.

Lady Gaga… twice….

Billy Mays and Conan O’Brien
 
Tupac and Little Red Riding Hood
(that ink is some of my work.)

Dharma Initiative

Robin, Banana, Bowie, and Dharma

Ketchup


Jack The Ripper and Prostitute…

Dr. Horrible

Bill Clinton and Monica
 

I just put a few… you would have to check out facebook to see the rest.

Sushi in my mouth

I had my first (official) sushi experience last weekend. It was pretty delicious. I had a couple of rolls… One hamachi’s heaven role which was my favorite… It was meat wrapped in more meat. I had a colonial roll… pretty decent. Then I also has some spicy tuna. All pretty tasty. Here is a pic of all my food plus a little extra.

I also got a new phone and I thought I would try out blogging from it.

Church Music. DC*B

(I am only putting one thumb up because I am holding the CD case with the other (hand).  It gets two thumbs, but for the sake of the picture only one is pictured.)

possible halloween costume.

Halloween is coming up pretty soon.  So I have been thinking about what I am going to go as.  I have not decided on anything yet, but so far this is winning.
 
just doing some brainstorming…
what are you going as?

this worked well.

It hasn’t stopped raining for days…
This is my new umbrella.  The stars on the blue only show up in the rain.