Monthly Archive: January 2008

one night in Chicago

one night in Chicago

Here in Chicago to drop in on the Evangelical Covenant denomination’s Midwinter Conference at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Came in last night instead of the afternoon b/c my flight was delayed for 3 hours due to inclement weather at O’Hare,...

upcoming 3M conference for singles

upcoming 3M conference for singles

I had a recent conversation with Lee Yih of Layman’s Foundation. He’s a part of hosting a unique conference called the “3M Christian Partnerships: Transforming the Marketplace, Ministry, and Marriage”, which will be at Lost Valley Ranch, Deckers, Colorado on...

Willow Creek news crashes server

Willow Creek news crashes server

Todd Rhoades, editor and publisher of MondayMorningInsight.com, breaks the news to the blogosphere about changes at the top over at Willow Creek Community Church, founded by Bill Hybels, and he’s getting to experience that “digg” or “slashdot” effect: Well, it...

television via the web – on the way

television via the web – on the way

Just got in on a private beta of Hulu, a web service that let you watch television on demand on the web! Very nice user interface. Here’s a clip from The Office that they let me embed here: So far,...

eat my pizza

eat my pizza

I ordered my 1st BFD pizza from Domino’s tonight for dinner with the boys (my boy Jeremiah has a friend over for a sleepover). You can have the very same personalized pizza that we ate — order up BFD #3299,...

many kinds of emerging church

many kinds of emerging church

With the turn of the century, there’s a lot of new developments in the church world — which is exciting for some, confusing for others. Particularly, the new kinds of churches being described as emerging church or emergent church, are...

company with a mission for generosity

company with a mission for generosity

On my first 2008 weekend, I was in the Houston area, and coincidentally met a really neat couple, Simon and Faye Lee. Simon Lee is founder and president of EIS Office Solutions, a company that he started with a long...

churches reaching next gen Asian Americans

churches reaching next gen Asian Americans

Over at the L2 Foundation blog, I’ve posted my presentation (slides + audio) from last weekend, titled “How Churches are Reaching Asian Americans“, presented in Oakland/ East Bay area at the ISAAC Chinese Churches Consultation and at Bay Area Chinese...