Month: October 2013

  • How to innovate on $0 budget

    Here at the Raw Church unconference yesterday and today, and boy have the conversations and topics been RAW. Covering quite the gamut of the human condition (and some would prefer to use the term human depravity) and the brokenness we experience — adultery, sex abuse, divorce, multiple divorces, unexpected death, mental illness, terminal disease,  race…

  • How to Download YouTube videos on Google Chrome

    YouTube culture is fertile ground that implicitly encourages video replies and mashups. To do that, people need a way to download videos. These unofficial Google Chrome extensions (not in the Web Store) makes it easier to download YouTube videos in formats like MP4, FLV, etc: Chrome YouTube Downloader (by mandel99) current version 2.6.20 Ultimate YouTube Downloader for Chrome (by JackBean)…

  • Asian American pastors 10/29 lunch: Shared Power – Learning to Lead Well

    Asian American pastors 10/29 lunch: Shared Power – Learning to Lead Well

    [I won’t be able to make this event, but you and Asian American church leaders and pastors should. Limited space is running out!] Please join us for a FREE lunch and a panel discussion on “Shared Power-Learning to Lead Well.” We will discuss issues such as authority, abuses of power, and how to empower staff…

  • How to offend Asian Americans and Asians

    How to offend Asian Americans and Asians

    Here’s a user’s guide to a library of content that will guarantee your offending Asians and Asian Americans. As someone who has watched more stand-up comedy than the average person, with comedian wannabe as my childhood dream (and still a search phrase currently ranked #1 on Google), a large portion of comedy in America today…

  • Always more than 2 ways to do something

    I am an unconventional ideator and that’s made my life harder than most people in this real world. Here’s a real- life example I’m blogging while standing in TSA line for security check. Returning a rental car with a full tank of gas is a must for avoiding exorbitant service fees. So I pull up…

  • Work in Process at Exponential West 2013

    I love the Church capital C and all of its complexity, flavors, and even occasional messiness. During the past few days I was invited to teach 2 workshops, an overview of the multi-site church revolution and the Future of the Asian American Church. I love being with church leaders, affirming them, supporting them, connecting them…

  • Future of Asian American Church

    Future of Asian American Church

    Thanks for all who came to our workshop session on the Future for the Asian American Church at Exponential West 2013. Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in America today, and exponential numbers of next-gen multi-Asian churches are being planted that better reach the next generations of not just Asian Americans but also multiethnic…

  • On-Ramp to the Multi-Site Church Revolution

    On-Ramp to the Multi-Site Church Revolution

    I’m talking at Exponential West 2013 about multi-site churches, one church in multiple locations, at a workshop session this afternoon. The number of multi-site churches has grown exponentially worldwide from around 100 in 1996 to more than 5,000 by 2012. Here are the slides, links, and resources. On-Ramp to the Multi-Site Church Revolution Leadership Network‘s…