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Not so scared

Tomorrow I leave for an overnight campout in gold country with Erin's 4th grade class. I did this trip five years ago with Trevor, and it rained so hard that few people survived the night in their tents. This time, the weather report is promising, and I have more experience and better gear. But check out my blog entries five years ago, both before and after.

Ivan Dornon 1928-2008

Kay's dad died this past Wednesday morning. He single-handedly baptized more Japanese people than the rest of the missionaries I know put together. Here are the biggest mission principles I learned from him:

Kay lives in her car

Kay's dad died yesterday morning. That's a topic that deserves a separate posting. But it means Kay headed south, leaving me as Mr. Mom and sole driver.

Today I left work today at 2:00, walking out of a meeting. "You're coming back, right?" the director asked me. "Oh, no, I'll be driving for hours," I replied.

From there, I

• picked up Trevor from high school and dropped him at home
• picked up Erin from school and dropped her at home
• returned to school for the second half of Shelly's soccer game, then took her home
• did the lazy dad dinner of picking up pizza
• took Erin back to school for a musical event, then brought her home

So not counting this morning (when I had to recruit help to get them to two schools at roughly the same time), I did three hours of driving this afternoon alone.

My dinner with Zack

I had the privilege of sharing dinner with Zack Newsome tonight. (Darn it, I did not think of taking any photos!) I admire the leap he is making in downtown Phoenix and want to learn from it.

Quote of the evening:
We started a community, but after a while it became clear that it was just another emerging church, which is not what I wanted. It was still consumeristic, in that people were there because they were unhappy with their previous churches and felt this was a group that could satisfy them. But they weren't interested in the mission. So we killed it.

…And refocused themselves around the mission of sharing kingdom life with those beyond the reach of the existing church -- people for whom "church" is not an option (but I don't see that limiting God's ongoing work in any way). Zack, you're my hero.

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Freeze Project

Inspired by Improv Everywhere freezing in Grand Central Station, Solitonic Just One activists use humor to raise awareness of human trafficking:

thefreezeproject.com

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Technology for safe worship

For AWESOME worship, you need the latest in music technology: Now you can respond to the leading of the Spirit in spontaneous arrangements without worrying about wrong notes, because "all discordant chords and sour notes have been programmed out"! Comes pre-loaded with seven Chris Tomlin worship songs!

(Hat tip to Gustaf, who twittered to this upbeat Gizmodo review.)

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