Red Letters

Red Letters releases in less than a month. In celebration, I will be featuring a Red Letter Blog Tour, featuring different bloggers, magazines and ezines who have either reviewed the book or interviewed me. The first comes from my good friend and Emergent Church leader, Will Samson. Thanks Will! Review of Red Letters I recently…

Thanks to Erin Wilson in Canada for this post. I love the idea of taking 100 friends in Africa to dinner. Take 100 friends out for dinner…     For the price of one value meal at a Canadian McDonalds, you can feed 100 orphans in Swaziland: $5 = 100 meals of fortified rice and…

There’s an article I’ve just written on Swaziland up today on Wrecked for the Ordinary . Wrecked is an ezine that strives to re-imagine culture by challenging the norms and getting people out of their comfort zones. Click here to read, "Help! Half Our People are Dying." 

Want a way to make a huge difference in an orphan’s life with very little effort? We’ve worked out a special arrangement to deliver food directly to the orphans we serve in Swaziland. For only $5, you can provide 100 meals of fortified rice and soup. This has special vitamins and minerals added to strengthen…

For all my friends in Virginia and the surrounding areas: I’ll be speaking at the Awakening Music Festival, in Centerville, VA (right outside of DC) on September 15th. I’d love to see you so let me know if you’ll be attending. Awakening Fest is a one day music festival with Toby Mac, Barlow Girl, This…

Great news. The Five for 50 site is live! Please go to Fivefor50.com to register and join the global fight against extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS. There are 5 easy ways you can help support those who are suffering with HIV. You can pick one or all five. The key is to do something – motivate…

I love how passionate women are about issues that affect our world. Whenever we have missions trips, they are at least 75% women. When AIM (Adventures in Missions) does short and long term trips, 75% women. Women have carried heavy loads across the centuries when men either didn’t or couldn’t.  Examples would be taking care…

A brand new report came out today with discouraging news. With all that has been done in education, health care, and awareness, AIDS continues to be on the rise and we are losing the battle. Dr. Anthony Fauci, President George W. Bush’s top adviser on the HIV/AIDS crisis, said that for every person we put…

After my March 2007 trip to Swaziland, we sold handmade purses made by Swazi widows here on the blog.  That was such a great success, I wanted to bring back even more purses when I was there in June. (See this post to learn more about the women who make these purses). It’s our plan…

Some very exciting news. EMI Christian music group, representing artists such as Toby Mac, Steven Curtis Chapman, Chris Tomlin, Mandisa, David Crowder Band, etc., is partnering with Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds. Why? To get the message of Christ’s compassion and the needs of the world out to their audience so they can…

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