Check out our “2008 NFL Draft: Road to Sundays” March 1, 2008
Posted by Steve in : Weblog , add a commentJosh Wright, Steve Raquel and I are making great strides in building out the underlying technology for Fanfuego.com, the premier social network for sportsfans, whcih will launch in early April (and all of you will love it and regular users!).
As we get ready for the launch, we are beginning a multi-episode series looking at five players who are hoping to get drafted in the 2008 NFL draft in late April. There will be a new episode each week, and each episode will be roughly 3-4 minutes.
Check out the series — it chronicles the ups and downs and real-life experience of athletes who want to move up to “the big dance” .
Here is the promo — please help us by passing this along to others.
New Year’s Resolutions January 2, 2008
Posted by Steve in : Weblog, Family, Methods & Strategies , add a commentEach year, I read about lots of people’s new year’s resolutions. Long lists of things they want to accomplish in the current year — many of which are abandoned before the long winter nights of February are through. I am not doing the list of 57 things this year.
This year, I am setting five simple new year’s resolutions:
1. Love God,
2. Love my wife well
3. Love my children well
4. Do well in leading others at work
5. Spurred on by a competition with my daughter — to read 52 books this year.
On the last resolution, iron sharpens iron and the more I read, the better decisions I make and the more I learn from outsiders that can help me understand, shape and clarify my views and my way of doing things.
First books up are:
“American Pharoah: The Story of Richard J Daley” – I love Chicago and it history and this is a great one.
“Now Discover your Strengths” - Gallup — Knowing what one’s strengths are is a good reflective exercise and allows you to see what other talents you need around you to succeed.
What are you resolving to do this year?
A Reminder: New Year, Same King December 31, 2007
Posted by Steve in : The City, Sunday Services, Church, Inside Park, Urban Church, Missional, DifferenceMakers , add a commentThis Sunday, Park Community Church was honored to have Victor Rodriguez,
Senior Pastor of La Villita Community Church here in Chicago give the last message of the year. Victor is a differencemaker in Chicago and leads a congregation in the “Little Village ” area of Chicago located around 26th street and Kedzie.
Little Village is the retail, residential and cultural capital of the Mexican community in the Midwest—a neighborhood alive with Mexican arts and culture, and a great place to live for both longtime residents and new immigrants. Over the past 30 years, Little Village has become a major port of entry for Mexican immigrants, and more than half of its residents are under the age of 25.
As we begin to think about our new year’s resolutions, Victor implored us to get to know the King better in his message. His message was a strong reminder of the King we serve and this video he played is a great reminder of all that Jesus is, qwhat he does and what He will always be:
Exponential Conference: Park Inspiring Others April 26, 2007
Posted by Steve in : The City, Church, Urban Church, Methods & Strategies , add a commentJust got back from Orlando (a full day saga to get back to O-Hare– uugh!) where I attended the Exponential Conference — AKA The 2007 National New Church Conference. While there, I had heard many great speakers (I’ll blog later) but I got a chance to check in with Mark Batterson, Lead Pastor at National Community Church in Washington DC. who told me that our church, Park Community Church has played a part in their baptisms. Apparently, a number of years ago, Mark saw a video of our baptism service in Lake Michigan with the Chicago skyline in the background and was inspired to do a lake baptism in the same style. Park ’s national influence continues…this time to Washington DC! Yea GOD!
Check out video of our Lake Michigan baptisms here.
Get 20 Million Minutes by Email or RSS! November 27, 2006
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Are you flying around all week at work and would rather have any new posts from 20 Million Minutes sent directly to you by email or RSS? After a number of requests, we have now added both of those options to the 20 Million Minutes blog! All of our feeds have been migrated to Feedburner, which provides better options for you.
EMAIL:
You can get an email sent to you whenever there is a new post for Park leaders. Just click here to go the the Feedburner feed and choose the “Get 20 Million Minutes delivered by email” option in the upper right hand corner. Then, whenever a post is made to this blog, you will receive an email, right to your desktop. It is that simple!
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Building Permit In Hand! August 3, 2006
Posted by Steve in : Weblog, The City, Chicago, Church Construction , add a commentWE RECEIVED OUR PERMIT TODAY! Praise God! In just over four months, we maneuvered our way through the labyrinth called the City of Chicago Department of Construction and Permits and now have our construction permit! …stay tuned as the building process begins to get exciting! Click here to learn more about the new building. Also, please save the date for the official groundbreaking ceremony for the new building at 1001 N. Crosby, which will be combined with our special monthly event, The Gathering, on Thursday September 14. Join us in an evening of praise and worship for all that God has done and will continue to do in this world- class city!
