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Jason Coker – Support What Matters
My friend Jason Coker and his family have made some significant sacrifices in order to do some much needed Kingdom work. Part of that work, for Jason, is blogging regularly. He does interviews, book reviews, offers insightful theological reflections, and facilitates much needed conversation about some of the most important topics in the world. He does all of this for free!Recently, Jason made the decision to offer memberships to his blog. He still plans to publish all of his content for free, but he is looking to those people who benefit from his work to return the favor in supporting his family with a modest $25 yearly donation.
I’m going to support Jason and I’d invite you to do the same.
Though I hesitate to mention it, the fact of the matter is that he’s trying to sweeten the pot by offering some giveaways. Every member gets a free t-shirt with some original artwork and is entered into a drawing for an iPod Touch, an iPad when 500 members are reached, and a MacBook Pro when 1000 members are reached.
I hope you’ll join me in becoming a member of Jason’s blog as a way to support him, his family and the projects they are a part of.
Tweet Old Post WordPress Plugin
Here’s the thing I hate most about blogging – it’s all about the now. Doesn’t matter how much time you invested or how much thought you put into that post or series birthed by your creative genius – your precious content is forgotten and buried faster than Superman tweeting on speed!
Enter Tweet Old Post.
I stumbled upon this brilliant wordpress plugin recently that resurrects that old content and brings it into the land of the living.
You select an interval (I’ve chosen twice a day), and BOOM – your old content, selected at random based on the criteria you choose, is tweeted. It even comes packaged with the ability to choose a link shortening service.
One downside – as I have figured out since beginning to use this plugin. If your readers/followers don’t pay attention, they will think that you’re posting new content and ask you if you’re alright after your car wreck (that happened 4 years ago!).
So, my fellow bloggers, hop on over to here and tell Ajay thanks for writing a plugin that helps us repopulate the interwebs with the precious fruit of our labors.
Networking & Generosity
My wife, Amy, works for an organization that we both love, International Teams.
Their main aim is,
Bringing People Together to Help the Oppressed.
To this end, they recruit, train, and mobilize people to serve on teams all around the world who are working to address some of the greatest challenges in the world today – things like urban poverty, human trafficking and slavery, and the needs of refugees.
On occasion, I have the opportunity to use some of my skills and abilities to help them out with small projects. In a couple cases, they have asked me to help build websites for various events and communication needs. This is something I enjoy doing, but by no means am I professional. The platform I know best is WordPress, so that is what I am inclined to use. But, WordPress is designed to be a blogging platform, not as a website builder per se.
So, what do you do when you’re doing work for a non-profit, but don’t have much of a budget to work with? You look to network in the hopes of discovering people of generosity.
Two groups have come through big time!
iThemes, who builds premium WordPress themes, was kind enough to donate their Flexx theme to assist in the creation of the sort of sites that I am looking to build.
A couple guys also got together and wrote a book called, “Digging into WordPress.“ It’s a tremendous resource for those who are looking to get to know WordPress from the inside out. They were gracious enough to donate a PDF copy of their book.For a networker like me, who loves to help other people out when he can, it’s a huge encouragement to receive the help of others when it’s needed. If you are in the market for a stellar WordPress theme be sure to visit the people at iThemes. If you want to do some self-instructing in the world of WordPress, this book, “Digging into WordPress,” is a must have.
Thanks to both these groups for being generous with their products.
http://ithemes.com/Skribit
In my constant quest to make this blog as interactive as possible, I’ve added a Skribit widget to the right where you can suggest topics for discussion here at lifeasmission. Anxious to see what sort of suggestions you all might come up with.Blog Relocation
Just a quick note to lifeasmission readers. I am moving to a new hosting company. I’ve never made a move like this before so I am not entirely sure what to expect. Just wanted to let you know in case the site goes down for a time.
As soon as everything gets transferred over and we’re up and running, keep your eyes peeled for some reflections on the Missional Learning Commons from this past weekend. It was chalk full of great stuff!
Top Posts of 2009
Like I did for 2008, I hope to put together a montage of memories from 2009… hopefully in the next month.
But on top of that, I wanted to think back on what I’ve written in 2009. Taking into account comments and personal importance, here’s a list of my favorite posts (1/month).
January: A Kenyan New Year
February: 5 Days, 4 States, and All Kinds of Goodness
March: Amy G. Drops the F Bomb!
I think this was the most commented on post of all time w/ 50. And apparently there are a lot of people out there googling “F-bomb” cause it got all kinds of random Internet traffic!
April: Good News for Your City
May: Life on the Vine
June: Believing the Right Way
July: Married
August: Moving & the Muddy Buddy
September: Mi Amigo Manuel – Neighborliness Lives!
October: Bi-Vocational Ministry (series)
November: Toward a Missional Vision of Theological Education (series)
December: Christmas Video Comment Extravaganza
Looking forward to the intersection of life and mission in 2010!
recent posts
- A Week’s Worth of Thoughts, Pictures, & Links: 2012-05-21
- Multiplying Missional Leaders by Mike Breen & 3DM (Book Review)
- A Week’s Worth of Thoughts, Pictures, & Links: 2012-05-14
- A Week’s Worth of Thoughts, Pictures, & Links: 2012-05-07
- A Week’s Worth of Thoughts, Pictures, & Links: 2012-04-30
- Younger Missional Leaders, the Lausanne Movement, and the Shape/ing of the Church
- A Week’s Worth of Thoughts, Pictures, & Links: 2012-04-23
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- Incredible opportunity to work with two of the best theological programs (@FullerDMiss @fullermagl) in the country! http://t.co/9UKKKa99 #FB 1 day ago
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