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I know it’s Labor Day weekend. I’m scrambling for something fun for the family to close out the summer, even tho’ the weather here in the OC won’t actually change at all. Maybe a Saturday Fun Roll or Greek Festival or the [ . . . ]

Mark DeYmaz pastors Mosaic Church over in Little Rock, Arkansas, and it’s very ethnically diverse. Goes to show — your church doesn’t have to be in a cosmopolitan top 10 population density center to be diverse. His new book, Building a Healthy [ . . . ]

Good news, hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!
[update 8/30/07 15:56:02 GMT] According to Reuters, witnesses have confirmed Afghan Taliban free 4 more Korean hostages and TALIBAN FREE THE THREE REMAINING KOREAN HOSTAGES IN AFGHANISTAN! AP wire reports Final South Korean Hostages Freed.
[8/29/07] 12 South Korean hostages have [ . . . ]

Good meetup with Daniel Eng this afternoon over coffee and spilling over into dinner. (We went for the bottomless fries at Red Robin.)

Daniel made an impression on me for his active pursuit of interviews with Asian American ministry leaders during the past [ . . . ]

There seems to be a huge surge of church planting activities since my seminary days a decade ago. Sometimes I wish I could be a church planter, sorta like I’ve long wished to be a comedian, or tried to be a pastor. [ . . . ]

I got the itch to watch video podcasts. But they’re not easy to find. The iTunes Store has audio and video podcasts all lumped in together, and I want to look beyond new release videos or featured videos, while avoiding the assault [ . . . ]

[update 8/28] Taliban says to free all 19 South Korean hostages (Reuters) 28 Aug 2007 14:54:21 GMT
Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday they would release 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they have been holding for nearly six weeks.
Earlier South Korea’s presidential Blue House [ . . . ]

Soularize is another one of those emerging/emergent church kind of conferences, this time set for the Bahamas end of October 2007. To promote the event, they put together this compelling comparison chart:

Save $50 for early registration to Soularize before September 1.
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As summer draws to an end, people will be getting back into a more normal routine without scattered vacations getting mostly everyone out of sync. One conversation that’ll be picking back up is the Next Gener.Asian Church Skypecast Conference call, scheduled for [ . . . ]