[Kid Inspiration]

Okay… this post from Puppets
and Stuff

Sunday, February 06, 2005
I can no longer keep silent. It’s time to blow the lid off a campaign of puppet neglect. A little bird told me that the Henson company shot a pilot for a reality show called America’s Next Muppet where puppet wannabe’s get to audition to join the Muppets. Why has this show not appeared in my television program? Why is it not in production? What television executives are depriving me of enjoying this series? What fools do not realize that the American public needs this show? Disney/ABC must pick up this show or they will be perpetrating an act that will live in infamy. Go to your windows right now. Open them up and shout, “I’m mad as hell and I want to watch America’s Next Muppet!”

This from the official site.

The muppets are pretty much my Holy Grail of entertainment memories as a child… and teenager… and adult.

If there was any show of which I could become a cult follower of it would be this one!!

Well… we will see what happens with it!

The Internet Evangelism day is coming up soon

The Internet Evangelism Coalition (an umbrella group of outreach ministries) has initiated a worldwide focus day on Sunday, April 24, called Internet Evangelism Day. This is purely a web evangelism awareness day — there is no fund-raising element. The purpose is to communicate the outreach potential of the Web among the worldwide church.

Find out about it here:
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Here is the official site:
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Wow!!!

Okay so last night (Sunday Night) the whole church gathered at the Sydney Entertainment Centre to record our latest live album!

It is awesome to have our church in one place at the same time worshipping and praising God. There are some beautiful new songs and a great atmosphere of faith.

We had a great time in the children’s program… a long night for our kids… but loads of fun and a huge amount of our leaders who just went above and beyond and created an awesome atmosphere for our kids.

Praise God for nights like these!!

Finally got the commenting system working…

So feel free to comment on any of the post made so far…

Get your thoughts out of your head and into the Blogosphere!!!

Comment… Now… Go On… It doesn’t hurt!!

Did you know that 28% of Americans believe their prayers are always answered and 44% believe their prayers are sometimes answered?

- When asked where people pray, 96% of respondents stated they pray at home.

- More than half of Baptist respondents stated that they pray one or more times each day; while 13% of Catholic respondents do not pray at all.

- The majority of respondents who pray stated that they pray for health, family members and to give thanks to God.

- 26% of American respondents felt that the Tsunami was an act of God.

- One in ten Catholic respondents and half of the southern Evangelical respondents in America believe the devastation caused by the South Asian Tsunami was an act of God with religious significance.

Stats from GMI (Global Market Insite), a leading market research services company.

We received some free preview tickets to see Hotel Rwanda last week. So myself and Beci trundled off, anticipation high in our hearts and a very nice ‘power smoothie’ high in my stomach (Blueberry, Raspberry, Yoghurt, Protein Powder, Milk… something else).

I had heard about this movie a month or so before when it was shown at various film festivals around the world and had been looking forward to it ever since.

The movie was brilliant, no real gore and violence just “implied horror” and thousands of Rwandans are slaughtered in the name of revenge. Unlike hack and slash Hollywood blockbusters this is surprisingly more horrific.

It is amazing what the human race is possible of, almost a million people murdered in a one hundred day period. But the movies real strength is seemingly avoiding the blame game and concentrating on what CAN be done to heal and move forward away from the past. You leave the movie inspired to part of the healing process, not a contributor to the death and hate.

Rather than thinking ‘what can I do?’, you leave thinking maybe I CAN do something… after all this man saves over one thousand refugees from both sides of the conflict, while a small drop in the masses that never saw another day, it made a difference to those thousand!

I find myself agreeing with a review from Brian D. Mclaren at Sojourners…

“And then I realize that’s why Hotel Rwanda seemed to me an even more Christian film (forgive me if this sounds crazy to you – but try to understand) than The Passion of the Christ. It evoked in me a wave of compassion for my neighbors around the world, whatever their color or tribe, whatever their religion or politics. And I hear our Lord saying, “As you have done it to the least of these…you have done it to me.”

Rather than pointing a finger at the ‘baddies’ in this picture, it just seems to inspire compassion…

Compassion: Not just for our friends and neighbours, but like Jesus says…
“For our enemies”.

Well here is the perfect object lesson for proving that some times God allows pain to benefit you.

I would be praising God the next time you get hit with a bottle in a bar fight… It might just save your life!!!!

Fox news Link

Vicious Attack Saves Woman’s Life

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) When a man struck Sally Hampton with a beer bottle last July 4, his unprovoked attack wound up saving her life.

When doctors began examining Hampton, 64, they found a brain tumor that could have killed her.

The tumor was removed, and now Hampton is fully recovered.

“It was one of the worst things that could happen to an elderly person, but in the end it saved her life,” attorney Erik Lombillo, who prosecuted her attacker, said.

According to prosecutors, Hampton and her attacker were in a bar at closing time, and she led him toward the door so he’d leave and the bar could be locked up.

“He looked over at her, smiled for some unknown reason, and poured the beer from the bottle in her face. Then he took the bottle and hit her in the head with it,” Lombillo said.

Hampton was taken to a hospital for treatment. During a test, the doctors found the tumor.

“It was basically a vicious, unprovoked attack, but the silver lining for this woman is her going to the hospital, having them discover this life-threatening health issue and making a full recovery,” Lombillo said.

Thanks to Out There reader Harley W.

Now that I am in the ‘blogosphere’, thought I might get with the culture:

The Bloggies are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. This is the fifth ceremony, with previous winners listed on their respective sites: 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Everyone’s invited to take part in the awarding process, so read below to find out how you can nominate and vote for your favorite blogs!

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Just in case you missed it… Hillsong church has released its first Praise and Worship Album for Kids… It is really blessing people around the world.. have a listen! http://hillsongmusic.com

Jesus Is My Superhero is the first ever kids worship album from Hillsong, and features live, energetic praise and beautiful worship. Recorded live at Kidsong with 16 songs, Max & Melody and much more!

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And So I begin on this new journey… Blogging.

My Prayer is that it brings encouragement and challenge as we lead children. And So I begin on this new journey… Blogging. My Prayer is that it brings encouragement and challenge as we lead children.

Here is the first entry in my Children’s Ministry Blog.

Stay tuned to recieve inspiration and motivation for leading children.