A little while back I received a copy of For the Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope by Max Lucado for review [full disclosure: through the Thomas Nelson book review blogger program].
San Diego area friends,
I’m so glad to announce that The Freeze Project is coming to San Diego! In short, The Freeze Project is a creative and simple way to raise awareness about the 27 million people currently enslaved worldwide. Participants will “freeze” in place for 5 minutes and then interact with people who are interested, giving out a flyer with information about human trafficking and raising awareness.
Here’s the rundown:
- Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009
- Time: 1:00 pm (about 15-20 minutes of prep/instructions, 5 minutes of the actual freeze)
- Location: La Jolla Cove
- Website: The Freeze Project
- Facebook: The Freeze Project San Diego event invite (please RSVP)
- Email: sdfreezeproject@gmail.com
The Freeze Project has already taken places in cities like Santa Monica, Anaheim and Glendale, CA, Seattle, WA and even in London (yes, that one in the UK!). We’d love to have a great turnout in San Diego, especially since SD is a border town with lots of human trafficking issues.
Spread the word and raise your voice to help unlock freedom for those frozen in slavery worldwide!
You can view the Anaheim Downtown Disney freeze below:
Just to continue my twitter-ified summaries of my “live” blogging from The Idea Camp, here are some glimpses of the final main session…
David Ruis
Worship session with David Ruis – solo, but brought along tech team of synth, drum machine, trusty Macbook (and I’m guessing sequencers, and other music-y stuff like that). David did an incredible job of bringing together worship, mystery, tech, and a heart for justice to the evening session.
Eugene Cho
Charles Lee interviewed Eugene Cho. It was really interesting that, although these two influential leaders had been blog friends for awhile now, this weekend was their first face-to-face interaction!
- Why do you blog? Many reasons… pains him to see friends in print business, but shift in how we obtain info, how we learn things, blogging is part of that change
- Why did you start your anti-poverty organization?
- Born out of family life, developing compassion
- His kids, watching poverty on TV, asked him, “Is this real?” Yes. “What are you doing about it?”
- One Day’s Wages
- Their family gave up one year’s wages — selling off other assets to give $100,000; encouraging people to give up one day’s wages in fight against global poverty
- We’re not asking people to do anything we’re not willing to do
- Over 300,000 in Facebook group — everyone might not give up one day’s wages, but there might be 500,000 hits on their website
- Exciting because shows how world is connected
- Your ideas and your perseverance will be tested
I’m still a total Twitter newbie (despite my total Twitter avalanche – Twit-alanche? — from The Idea Camp). And yet, I already find my writing being Twitter-ized… 140 characters or less! So, here are my bullet-pointed, tweetified notes from the panel discussion on leadership with Eugene Cho, Scott Hodge and Dave Gibbons.
What is leadership?
- Dave Gibbons: leadership is servanthood; servanthood is building trust and bearing pain
- Eugene Cho: simply a leader is someone who leads, but the key question is really how do you lead?
Can you share what contrarian church leadership looks like?
- David Gibbons: typically, structure is hierarchical
- Usually focus on strengths, giftedness, passion – end up with consumeristic perspective on a person
- Look at what is their weakness and pain instead – listen to metanarratives of a person’s life to find out who they really are
- Important to search out obedience – so how do you promote obedience?
What is the Third Culture mindset and will?
- Dave Gibbons: Third Culture in a word, “Adaptation”; in two words, “painful adaptation”
- It is a supernatural thing to love someone not like you
Glad to be here at The Idea Camp again this morning…
We shared a great moment while we were singing together; Charles Lee built off a recent blog post and asked us not to get derailed — all of the great innovation, ideating and collaboration that come out of this conference must be laid down at Jesus’ feet. We sang the bridge to the well-known song Hosanna a few times to express this surrender to God:
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