Ashleigh sent this to me last night. So, So Good.

A must watch. A must listen. A must ponder. A must.

The City Leadership Forum 2012 Spring Schedule & Topics.

INVEST – FEBRUARY 1ST

Elliot Perry, former NBA player and Education Champions Ambassador.

David Montague, the Director of the Memphis Teacher Residency.

This Forum will be held at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church

RSVP Here

I am giving away two tickets to the VERGE12 Conference.

I am speaking there next month and I have 10 discounted tickets to share. Here is how the give-a-way works.

The cost for VERGE is currently $129. I am selling 10 tickets for $79 each. Buy at least 2 tickets. Once all 5 pairs have been purchased, I will draw a name out of a hat on video and that person will receive their money back.

Two tickets cost $158 here. Leave a comment or contact me if you would like to snag two.

Good luck and see you next month at VERGE12!

2012 just got better.  Thank you Wes, Roman, and the gang!

My friend Drew Holcomb‘s song “Live Forever” is the music for this awesome NBA promo piece from TNT.

More Drew Holcomb & the Neighbor’s on YouTube

Can you imagine if these guys would have actually played together?  Who would have been the best teammates featured?

Jeremy sent me Buzz Feed’s 45 most powerful images of 2011.

They are each in some way powerful and amazing and heart breaking and crazy, but this before and after really impacted me.

See them all here. 

A 5 hour shift paying $10 per hour.   (May be options to more work later this week or next if desired)

Must arrive by 6:45 to check-in
Must have your own computer that can do wi-fi
Must be efficient in navigating online data entry

Someone please make me a version of this I can hang on my office wall.

This is simply amazing.

I found this here. 

(update, just saw this on Herman’s site too.)

All this craziness and mayhem over a $2 waffle iron. I wish people could get this kind of enthusiasm about helping others instead.

Did you know that $1 can give a person clean drinking water for an entire year.

Thanks for sharing the video Herman.

At Neighborhood Church we are raising money to build a well in Peru.

Over a billion people don’t have clean water and unfortunately around 2.2 million of those people die each year because of it. Amazingly enough, it only cost $5,000 to put a clean water well into a community. This well then not only provides clean water, but it also saves hundreds of hours each week in just going to get water for communities.

So our church wants to build one of these wells. We have partnered with Living Water to do so and they have shared with us a specific need for a community in Peru.

NC has a couple of fundraisers happening; Babysitting, 4th Annual Water Party, Wrappers’ Delight, & more.

The Carroll Crew decided to get in on the action.

We had a planning meeting with Charis’ friend Cece at YoLo. I seeded the fundraiser with $50.

We went to Dollar Tree and bought 40 Water Bottles.

The kids fell in love with the idea of coloring pictures and customizing the mugs.

So we have water bottles for sale. Each has an image that the kids colored and this quote…

GOD {made it}

MOSES {split it}

JESUS {walked it}

PEOPLE {need it}

YOU {gave it}

Every $1 you gave for this cup gave one person clean water for an entire year.

THANK YOU – JAC, Charis, Abigail, & Jones

Let us know if you want one!  $5 suggested donation.