West Loop: Guerrilla Truck Show – Tues, June 12

Park Community Church is committed to encouraging and enabling people stay in the city, to establishing and nurturing families within the city, being role models to our neighbors, and passing on the Gospel to future generations —thus impacting the city of Chicago: one life, one family, one block and one neighborhood at a time. From [...]

Being Missional: Do Church and Bars Mix?

What do you think about churches reaching out to those who won’t come to a church and having their worship services in bars and pubs? Read the following stories and let me know your thoughts. Hal and Mal’s in Jackson Mississippi is famous for a beer after work, but on Sunday nights at 6 — [...]

Chicago Photo of the Week

I love Chicago…plain and simple. This is the best place to live, work, play and minister. As I roll through life, I often seek out photobloggers who capture the essence of what Chicago is and when I find those photos, I love to just take them in and see how they are able to see [...]

Back from East Asia

Just got back from a 10-day tour of East Asia and China and got a chance to see some really cool sites and meet some really great people. One of the coolest sites I got to see was the new Olympic stadium in Beijing, aka “The Bird’s Nest”. It will be one of the coolest [...]

Ministry Travel: Ensure the Lowest Fares

(Yahoo) Have you ever bought an airline ticket from ministry travel only to see the price fall in the enusing weeks and your frustration rise as you try to manage costs? Now there is something you can do about it.  Few customers realize it, but many airlines will give refunds if they cut the price after you [...]

Branding: One Word

I saw a great post at Duct Tape Marketing and think it will help us think about the essence and uniqueness of Park Community Church. We are beginning a branding process to better clarify for ourseleves and congregation who Park is and what we are all about as we move into our new ministry center.  [...]

Tech Tip: Gmail Attachment Upgrade

Gmail just upgraded the maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. While Gmail in the past let some larger (10+Mb) files, they have now increased the sending size to 20 MB in one message. This may still not work for the folks at the other end as the are few mail providers that [...]

NYT: Shifting Emphasis for Evangelicals

Article today in the New York Times….what do you think about the purported shift? Leave a comment

God Tour

I will be out of touch for most of the next few days as I go to visit Park friends in East Asia and China with group from our church. God is doing powerful things in East Asia — I can’t wait to hear about some of those things. Check out World Magazine’s article last [...]

Tech Tips: 99 Email Productivity Tips

When people read out a phone number, they use “phone rhythm.” No one has to explain “phone rhythm,” we all just seem to do it automatically, “…713…555…12…34″. Similarly, when we answer a phone call we all say, “Hello.” No one taught us to do that, but somehow we all seemed to pick it up. So [...]

Lemond Enters Stage Left

I am a big cycling fan and am watching with interest the Floyd Landis doping hearing….For total coverage of the Landis affair, check out the #1 internet source …Trust But Verify —————————————————————————————– Here comes Lemond, stage left….I ask myself, what sort of media circus we will see as the USADA brings Greg Lemond up to [...]

Chicago Photo of the Week

I love Chicago…plain and simple. This is the best place to live, work, play and minister. As I roll through life, I often seek out photobloggers who capture the essence of what Chicago is and when I find those photos, I love to just take them in and see how they are able to see [...]

Parlez Vous Francais?

Today was a day of translations at the Floyd Landis hearing as the USADA legal team worked to get a translated understanding of the lab procedures of the French laboratory that analyzed the Tour de France champion’s urine samples. The USADA called the laboratory’s analytical chemist, Cynthia Mongongu, as a witness on Tuesday, grinding through [...]

Wilco Launches Blue Sky Blue

One of my favorite bands is Wilco and today we saw the U.S. launch of Wilco’s new album entitled “Blue Sky Blue“. The common ground about this album for the current incarnation of the band—a six-piece lineup that includes founding bassist John Stirratt, drummer Glenn Kotche, keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone and guitarist Nels [...]

10 Most Commonly Used Passwords

Top Ten Common Passwords Is your password DOA? Is it so simple anyone can crack it? Well, no matter what the experts say, the vast majority of us are likely to choose a password we can remember. Unfortunately, cyberthieves know this weakness all too well, and try to hack into accounts just by using the [...]

Can I Get a Witness!

For you non-cycling fans,  join us as we review the day to day deliberations inthe Floyd Landis “doping” hearing…..catch all the best and timeliest Landis updates at Trust But Verify Is he guilty and a cheater whose time is up?  Or is he innocent and is being railroaded by an out-of-control authority?  Stay tuned right [...]

Landis: It All Begins Today

Today, Monday, three arbitrators will convene their hearing on Floyd Landis’ case in a moot-court auditorium at Pepperdine University, pitting the one lone cyclist against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) who has alleged the cyclist used illicit performance- enhancing drugs, with a possible two-year suspension and loss of his Tour title hanging in the balance. [...]

Illinois — In the High Tech Leader Pack

At Park Community Church, we believe that Chicago (and Illinois) is the most important place to live and minister. It is a place that attracts people for job opportunities, access to culture and the arts, educational opportunities, and quality of life. However, the continued success of Chicago as a global city that influences the world [...]

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