Author: Zack Newsome

my Father’s Day present

 

my MovieSacThis father's day Kelli and the kids got me a "lovesac". According to the LoveSac website, "LoveSac is all about hangin’ out. Come together with your friends and family. LoveSac is always the center of good times." It's a giant bean bag (but bigger and better). Kelli has always wanted one, I have always wanted to fall asleep in one, and our local LoveSac store was having a sale. So we broke down and got one for my office – a reading chair. It's the two-person edition (the MovieSac) and far from the "the BigOne" (which comfortably seats a family of five!)

Anyway, here's to catching up on my reading and sneaking a nap on my new LoveSac.

Missional Church Planting Forum

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in an online forum on missional church planting hosted by Ed Stetzer and put on by the good folks at Coachnet. If you've read Ed's book called, "Planting New Churches in a Post-Modern Age", then there's not much new to share about this experience, but a few good nuggets of wisdom did emerge for me (mainly a reminder to work hard to understand my city, some practical ways to do that, and some challenging concepts on the difference between covenant community and Christian community)  Some good resource nods came up too.  Anyway, all in all I am glad I was a part of this thing and am posting the summary of the forum if you are interested.

Missional Forum Summary.pdf

Taco Day Uno Update

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 Taco Day Uno was a huge success! Here’s the box score:

Hours: 12
People: 40-45
Tacos eaten: 145
$$ Raised for Charity: $161
The day spent with friends: priceless

This video was taken during taco day uno. It’s 12 hours of time-lapse footage of the main room.

BTW – Here are the pictures from the event.

Today is Taco Day!

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Taco Day has begun – the drinks are in the cooler, the decorations are up, the first taco has been eaten, and there is money in the pot for the East Valley Men's Center already. Today is going to be a good day (except for the 110 degree heat!).

If you are in the Phoenix area and looking for a place to cool off and to grab some free food – we love to have you join us. Or come by tonight and watch the suns game with us.

Click here for a map to our place – we're here until 10pm.

A Quote

"If you want to build a ship, dont drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antione de Saint Exupery

Bono LIVE from Africa – Tonight!

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NBC Nightly News is broadcasting live tonight from Africa. If you are involved in the efforts of the ONE campaign or are aware of Bono's efforts to fight global poverty and AIDS – you should check this out. I am tivoing it – so if you miss it – we can have a replay party at my house. (or I can burn you a DVD of the broadcast).

Here is the writeup from the ONE campaign website on the broadcast:

"Tuesday evening, May 23rd, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will broadcast live from Africa for the first time ever. Please join us as we help Bono focus the world's attention on stories of hope and inspiration from Africa. Invite your friends, family, and neighbors to come together and learn more about ONE, global poverty and AIDS, and how we can all make a difference."

You can find out more here. Thanks to my buddy Mike for bringing this event to my attention.

A New Cell Phone

For the past few months, I have been dreaming of getting a bluetooth enabled cell phone to connect with my bluetooth palm tx and to step into the future of connectibilty (all my devices are connected via bluetooth?Ǭ† – laptop, palm, cell phone, and a bluetooth headset.)?Ǭ† The problem of my search was that I am in the middle of a cingular 2-yr plan and these types of phones aren’t cheap.?Ǭ† Well…I have been saving up my Starbucks tips and I counted them last week – $475 worth of rolls of quarters and $1 bills.?Ǭ† Yesterday the fam and I went to Fry’s electronics and I discovered this motorola slvr cell phone for $150.?Ǭ† So I grabbed it, took it to the front counter and was told that it was typo and it really was $250.?Ǭ† I was bummed, but then excited once again?Ǭ† when they told me that they would honor the price on the rack for me.?Ǭ† So I got this great little phone for $150 .?Ǭ† And so far – I love it.?Ǭ† It has itunesd built into it, so it basically is a cell phone and an ipod in one device.?Ǭ† It’s pretty slick looking, ultra-thin, well designed and links with everything bluetooth I got.?Ǭ† No more manually tranferring all of my phonebook numbers from my old phone to my new one – just synced it with my powerbook.?Ǭ† The camera is decent and so far I likke everything about this phone – except for the fact that I can’t listen to itunes through my bluetooth headset.?Ǭ† Oh well.

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A Meditation

I find Thee enthroned in my heart, my Lord Jesus.?Ǭ† It is enough.?Ǭ† I know that Thou art throned in heaven.?Ǭ† My heart and heaven are one.

Alistair MacLean

Earth Day 2006

Today (April 22nd) is Earth Day.?Ǭ† If you’re like me, this day is usually missed and forgotten before it happens.?Ǭ† But for some reason, it got on my radar this year.?Ǭ† I wanted to at least begin trying to be a bit more environmentally conscious, so I have been trying to figure out where to start on my journey toward environmental responsibility. I tried to convince some friends to rent a Prius for the day, but nobody seemed to like that idea.?Ǭ† I landed on at least becoming aware of the reality of my way of life by doing a survey found on the earth day network’s website.?Ǭ† The survey asks you a series of questions about your personal wastefulness and resource consumption, then tells you how many earths we would need if the entire human opoulation lived that way.?Ǭ† If everybody lived like Zack, we would need 6.4 earths.?Ǭ† Not too good.?Ǭ† See how many planets you would need here.

Happy Earth Day!

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