Archive for January, 2010
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
How cold is it? 4
Sometimes in Minnesota it’s so cold that nothing works as it’s supposed to.
How cold might it be? Well, for instance, what in the world can you do for fun outside with the children when it’s -10 degrees?
Monday, January 11th, 2010
My hero
Happy birthday
to the
super man
who swept me off my feet
way back when.
Monday, January 11th, 2010
How cold is it? 3
Oh man. By the time we get home to Minnesota tonight, it will have been up to 20-something degrees today–practically sunbathing weather. But Minnesota is still shivering from the cold last week.
How cold was it? You’d have been glad to have a clothes dryer and not have to hang your laundry out to dry.
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
How cold is it? 2
It’s all the way up to 7 degrees above zero this morning in Minneapolis. But keep in mind, it gets really cold in Minnesota. How cold?
Let’s just say this: Don’t be lazy and leave your groceries in the trunk of the car for later. Later will be too late.
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
How cold is it?
I’m visiting in Georgia for a couple more days. It’s cold here by Georgia standards.
But it’s really cold back home in Minnesota. How cold is it?
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Do something now
A few days ago, Talitha and I were at Passion 2010 in Atlanta, among more than 21,000 enthusiastic university-aged people. Johnny has spoken there most years since the movement began, but this was the first time I had attended.
I knew Passion is a rich mixture of worship and missions. What I didn’t expect was how “now” the missions emphasis is–not just looking toward the future, but the challenge to do something now.
Here’s the report of the results, posted at the Passion blog by Louie Giglio–phenomenal. The goal of $500,000 for their partner ministries was more than doubled.
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The heartbeat of the Passion Movement is not simply about filling arenas, but a generation mobilized to carry the message of God’s fame to the unreached, oppressed and forgotten wherever they are on the planet.
To that end, one of the five statements of the 268 Declaration is:
Willingness To Shine The Gospel To All People—
Because God is seeking worshipers of all peoples, I will spread His fame among the nations, fully participating in His global purposes while engaging poverty and injustice in Jesus’ name.
[God, kindle in me the desire to go anywhere, at anytime, at any cost, to do anything to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.]
While the worship at Passion is vital, it is not an end in itself. Rather, our songs and anthems are fuel for our journey to the nations. Thus, Do Something Now is front and center in all we do, a major component of every gathering.
At Passion 2010 we introduced 12 partner organizations with causes totaling $500,000. Our goal was not pledges for the future, but giving on site together in four days. In the end (and this number will continue to grow), the total passed on to our 12 partners includes:
Building an education center for the Dalit people of India through Operation Mobilization. Goal–$75,000. Given–$92,753.91.
Small business loans for women in Haiti through Hope International. Goal–200 x $200 loans. Given–$64,412.34 for 322 loans.
Bible translation for Shatika and Rom People of SE Asia with OneVerse. Goal–translate 4000 verses at a cost of $100,000. Given–3134 verses/$78.359.
Sponsor 100 seminary students in the Middle East with E3 Partners. Goal–$30,000. Given–$45,318/151 students.
Build 10 wells in Guatemala with Living Water. Goal–$50,000. Given–$113.865/22 wells built.
Provide 100 cleft palate surgeries for children in Afghanistan with Cure International. Goal–$55,000. Given–$68,160.54/111 children get surgeries.
Package and send Bibles to unreached people in Asia through Bibles Unbound. Goal–3000 Bibles packaged and $3000 to cover cost. Given/Done–3000 Bibles packaged/$9,530.56 given to send more.
Build a border outpost in Nepal to intercept sex trafficking victims through Not For Sale. Goal–$25,000. Given–$86,516.72 for 3+ border outposts.
Support a Child Survival project in Indonesia through Compassion International. Goal–100 students x $20 a month for one year = $24,000. Given–205 students x $20 a month for one year = $50,170. (The 12 month commitment represents pledges for this cause).
Package meals through our partner Feed My Starving Children. Goal–package 100,000 meals at Passion 2010 and give $17,500 to cover costs. Given/Done–108,432 meals packaged and $17,533.32 given.
Sponsor children affected by HIV/AIDS in Mozambique with World Vision. Goal–200 students x $35 monthly/package 1000 Caregiver kits. Given–174 students x $35 monthly/1000 caregiver kits assembled.
Drink coffee and fund projects in Ethiopia through our partner Gobena Coffee. Given–$24,548.
Total given at Passion 2010 = $724,480.42.
IN ADDITION, a family at Passion 2010 matched the total as of Tuesday morning with a gift of $668.597.00.
For a Passion 2010
As well, 14,820 towels and 72,600 pairs of socks were given to assist the homeless shelters of Atlanta. [brought by students when they arrived]
Obviously, it’s not all about the money. But we know the verse, “where your money is your heart is also,” applies here, and believe many lives have been captured by His global purposes in these days.
Thanks to everyone who joined this amazing cause. Let’s continue to give everything until His grace, hope and healing are extended to all.
Humbled,
LG
You can still give $5 by texting OMC to 20222 and by supporting the causes at onemillioncan.com. All monies given by text after Passion 2010 will go to onemillioncan causes.
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Winners have been notified . . .
The 20 winners of the Hurray-New-Website Contest have been notified. If you didn’t receive an email from me, I’m sorry, but you didn’t win this time. Maybe some other time.
I hope this website can be of such benefit and blessing that it will overcome your disappointment.
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Thank you for our parents
Today I’m thinking especially about two people who have prayed for me by name almost every day.
One is my Mother. I’m visiting her this week.
I planned the trip a few weeks ago, but as usual, it was really God doing the planning so that I arrived at a very good time.
Mother was on a medication for an infection. The infection was improving, but the medication was getting her down in various ways.
So I have been here to spend some TLC on her. God has helped her so that she is feeling much better today.
The other person who prayed daily for me was my father-in-law, who is with his Lord now. Today is his birthday and my husband remembers his father at the Desiring God blog.
Thank you, Lord, for the prayers of our parents. Please help me to be that faithful on behalf of our children.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Made in God’s image
Patrick Hughes: “God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal.”
Patrick’s father: “Maybe . . . they recognize, ‘Wow! Imagine the possibilities I didn’t even consider when I saw this young man.’”
(ht: Thabiti Anyabwile)
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Results coming
Thank you for your overwhelming response to my subscribe-and-enter contest.
I’ll announce the winners as soon as I get some help with choosing randomly from my son Abraham. (Usually I don’t need help with randomness).
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Hurray!-New-Website Contest
Twenty of you can have a chance to start this new decade by winning a copy of Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God.
This book includes biographies of 5 women who are models to me because of the way God has worked in their lives. (Review by Tim Challies).
Here’s what you do to enter. Subscribe to my website (by RSS or by Email). Then post a comment telling me you’ve done it.
If you’re already a subscriber, great! Post your comment telling me so.
The 20 winners will be picked randomly from all the comments posted today through Wednesday, January 6.
Only one comment per subscriber, please.
Deadline: Wednesday, January 6.
Blessings to you in this new year.
