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Christmas Video Comment Extravaganza Winners!!
Click through to the site of you don’t see the video announcing the winners of the Better World Books gift certificate and Live by Giving donations.
Make a Video, Win a Prize, Do Lots of Good
Lifeasmission Readers,
Just a quick reminder of the video comment extravaganza I posted about last Sunday. So far we’ve got just two video comments – from my friends Ben and Joel (be sure to check out Ben & Joel’s blogs).
If you have a webcam or a way to make a short video, you can participate. You can get all the details in the short video below, but here’s the gist of it.
1) In the original post, leave a video comment (or link to a video) where you’re mentioning some way in which you are trying to make God’s desire for this season more important that the world’s.
2) As long as you leave the comment by midnight (CST) this Friday, you’ll have a chance to win 1 of 3 Christmas gifts that benefit others.
3) You’ll make my Christmas merrier by convincing me that this blog is not TOTALLY self-serving
Don’t forget, you are can make comment here if you want, but leave your video comments for this “contest” over on the original post.
Peace.
Christmas Video Comment Extravaganza: Post & Win!
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Todd Hiestand is My Hero
It was just over 3 years ago that I “met” Todd. I was in Norway studying and writing my masters thesis. In my search for resources, I came across Todd’s blog and was excited to find someone else who was thinking about missional living in suburban contexts. We developed a collaborative friendship in the blog-o-sphere and I finally got to meet him face to face when his church community, The Well, in suburban Philly, was hosting a small seminar with Al Hsu regarding “The Church & Suburbia.”
Through our respective church communities, Todd and I are both affiliated with Ecclesia, a missional church planting network which gives us even more opportunity to interact.
Todd is living the dream as a bivocational (or bioccupational as he prefers) pastor and draw some income from doing web design. I have always admired his work with crafting wordpress themes and when I saw some of his latest work on the blog of one of his friends, I jokingly told him to send me the zip file. He took me seriously and 30 minutes later, I am enjoying the beautiful goodness you see before you (unless you’re reading this through a reader – if you are, do yourself a favor and click through to check it out).
Anyway, Todd didn’t ask for any money, but I am gonna give him some anyway cause he’s my hero!
For the sake of your own soul, you should get to know Todd. For the sake of your blog, you should hire him to rock your world.
Kenya
UPDATE: Flight was delayed in Memphis so missed the connection in Atlanta. We are enjoying the local Ramada and we’ll take the same flight tomorrow that we missed today at 3PM.
I am heading to Kenya in the morning with 5 friends. We are going to be helping to put on a camp for a orphanage in Eldoret. For those of you who pray, any that you would offer on our behalf would be most appreciated. Please excuse the blogging hiatus. We’ll see you in 2009!
Dear Commenters,
I am in the process of upgrading my blog to include the IntenseDebate plugin. I think this will be a helpful tool for commenting in the future (or maybe not, in which case, we’ll go old school). But, while it is doing its thing, it seems that existing comments are unavailable and perhaps new ones won’t show up right away. All should be back to normal in a few hours.
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