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I love this and IMHO you should enter it in the fair! I see a BLUE Ribbon with your name on it.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I love this and IMHO you should enter it in the fair! I see a BLUE Ribbon with your name on it.
God, Wonderful Family, Great Health, Awesome Friends, Quilting & Chocolates - - What more could a girl be blessed with!!
I love love love it so pretty and fresh and the snowmen are so cute.
God Bless you all.
Wow - Just wonderful, great job and thank you for sharing.
Have a Blessed day
You definately should enter it into the fair. You will get a blue ribbon to go with you blue quilt. It's wonderful & the color is fabulous. Super job!!!
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Thank you all so much.
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Please enter it and then enjoy - I love snowmen and have a collection of fabrics. Now I might have to get them out and do something like your. Really enjoyed - lots of others will also.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the LIFE, in your years. (Abe Lincoln)
"The Best" The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...Oh, please...enter it in the fair. It has blue ribbon written all over it. I love the color you choose too.
It came out adorable! Love it done in that blue! Enter it, even if you don't win, others will love seeing it.
Oh please enter it in your fair. It is so precious. I would love to look at it in a fair. Very nice work.
Learning to Love the Journey.
Thank you.
April's mom
Tara's mom
Oh so much work! Beautiful.
That is a beautiful quilt. Please do enter it in the fair. I brought the book with the different snowmen. It is on my to-do-list.
That is awesome!
It's a blue ribbon for sure!
You absolutely MUST enter it -- ribbons or not - it's too beautiful not to share with the world. Congratulations on a spectacular quilt !!!
Please enter them so others can see too. They are great!
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April's mom
Tara's mom
Oh wow that is just stunning and the colours are beautiful.
God Bless you all.
I love Redwork (any colour) embroidery, yours is gorgeous. Go ahead and enter it in the fair, we are dying to see your ribbons. Thank you for sharing.
Your work is outstanding. Your colors choice is fab!! Am SO glad you won. Congrats
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Toronto punk rock and roll band Maximum RNR have revealed the info for their upcoming release titled "Rough Side Of The Dial".
The album will be available on June 18th on 10″ vinyl, CD, and Cassette. It's the first release to feature the current line up of the band. Their last release was 2011's "The Black And White Years".
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The Big Biking Commune is an initiative to bring together passionate bikers, motorcycles, riding clubs, bike brands, bikers accessories and all related products and services under a single roof. It is a celebration of the bonding, brotherhood and belonging that strings together all motorcycles fanatics alike; it is the perfect pit stop for bikers to revel, rejoice and regroup before plotting the next journey to Rule the Roads.
The first edition of the Big Biking Commune festival for bikers was held between 22nd and 24th February 2019 at the picturesque temple town of Mahabalipuram attracting over 4000 bikers joining us to celebrate the biking brotherhood amidst music, entertainment, stunt show, off-roading and experience sharing.
The Big Biking Commune is all about creating new experiences for the biking community; putting together events and entertainment to celebrate being a biker; networking and learning from experienced bikers from the commune; discovering new bikes, biking routes, biking buddies and riding and celebrating the essense of being a biker. With the Big Biking Commune the fun never stops, keep in touch with us over mail, or on our social media pages and join in the new way of celebrating being a biker.
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Tammy and the Bachelor a 1957 Summer Release starring Debbie Reynolds is the ultimate bully movie. Seventeen year old Tammy raised down on the river by her bible preaching, moonshiner grandpaw witness a plane crash on the river. Hoping to find saleable salvage from the plane crash down river at the whirlpool they fish out something better: Tammy's first love Pete pilot of the plane. Leslie Nielson from the 1980's/1990's Naked Gun series of movies plays the hunky clueless Pete. When grandpaw (Walter Brennan) gets sent to jail by the revenuers he tells Tammy she should go live (oops, stay) with Pete and his family till he gets out of jail.
Tammy's psychological backwoods common sense leads to ridicule by the family. However Tammy rises above their pettiness and sarcastic innuendo's. The fun part of the movie is once again seeing favorite actors: Louise Beavers, Walter Brennan and Fay Wray.
The song Tammy sung by Debbie Reynolds is a 'can't get it out of your head' kind of song. For three weeks between August 25 and September 21 of 1957 the song was Number 1 on the Billboard charts. It was also a Best Oscar nominated song for the year 1957. The kiss with Pete at the end of the movie leaves one with the assumption that Tammy has found her, 'Til Death Do Us Part, kind of love'!


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Stitch your self a delightful tablerunner to celebrate Christmas.
Finished size is 32.5″ x 12.5″
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When you blame "Godlessness" for this weekend's violence, remember that the LGBTQ community is bullied and mistreated in the name of God every single day, and the murderer believed in God too. There are pastors calling for our deaths because the Bible says homosexuals should be stoned. Extremist Christians are cheering for the shooter, saying he did God's work and there are a "few less pedophiles" to ruin America. I don't know if the shooter had religious motivations, but it doesn't matter. The name of God has long been used to oppress us, and people are still using religion to hurt us. Godlessness caused this? No. Hate caused this.
There are good and bad people in every belief system. It is not godlessness or religion that is ruining this nation, but hate and fear and pride- and it's found in every group. We need to put aside our differences and start countering hate and fear with love and understanding.
We don't need religion or atheism to be good to each other. We need compassion and empathy. We are all capable of this.


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Hey everyone! So although the Harper Center has been relatively quiet the past few weeks, the students at Booth have been exposed to all sorts of interesting projects and given a great deal of responsibility as part of their summer internships. Here at The Booth Experience, we'll be highlighting our students' internship experiences, which span a multitude of industries, job functions, and geographic locations. Our inaugural post is from Sibo Zhao, who is a product manager at Zynga in San Francisco this summer.
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How can you understand if what's in your hands is really a silk velvet? Apart from looking at its label, of course, you can find it out with your own eyes and hands. Identifying it won't be always easy, though, but there are some elements that may help you.
What is a silk velvet made of?
The element that distinguishes velvets from all other fabrics is their pile, the soft surface that caresses your hands as soon as you brush it. So what determines the brightness and softness of velvet are the fibres chosen to make the pile. And the handmade velvets created in our Tessitura are warp-pile velvets, which means that the pile consists of threads arranged warpwise.
And now things get more interesting: velvets don't have just one warp and one weft, but at least 2 warps and one weft. The first warp is the ground warp, which creates the fabric's base by intertwining with the weft. On our looms, its threads are rolled up around a beam, a large cylinder placed at the end of the wooden frame.
The other warp is the pile warp: its threads wrap around the velvet irons to create the curly velvet, or they are cut to generate the cut velvet. These threads come from the bobbins placed on the rack, the framework located under the loom.
When we talk about silk velvets, then, we're indicating the kind of fibre its pile is made of. That's why, if you consider the composition of a velvet such as the soprarizzo Giardino Antico, you'll see that its ground consists of 70% silk and 30% cotton, whereas the pile is 100% silk.
The features of textile fibres used for velvets
In order to weave a velvet one can therefore choose among various textile fibres for the ground warp, and each of them give unique results:
- silk is the fibre used for the most precious velvets, because it makes their surface sheeny and their drapery extremely soft;
- viscose is incredibly lustrous, so it adds a touch of shimmer to velvet;
- with linen velvets get a rather matt look, instead. But this fibre has the advantage of absorbing dyes very well, so the fabric's colours are quite intense;
- cotton velvets, too, are certainly not as lustrous as silk velvets, but they're hard-wearing and drape softly. Their pile, though, is shorter than on silk velvets;
- synthetic fibres, such as polyester and nylon, generate shimmering velvets, but their drapery isn't soft, and they're heavy.
As you've seen above, distinguishing one velvet from another isn't simple, because sometimes they combine different fibres. As far as our velvets are concerned, though, we only mix them in the weft or in the ground warp, where we use cotton and linen to get a stronger fabric. Linen, for instance, is useful when we need to get a rigid weft, thus improving its performance and durability when employed for upholstery.


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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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I start this coming Monday as a BG Character Animator at Blue Sky Studios. Although terribly exciting, my current mental state is most aptly described by the image below. I shall go out this evening to buy some whip cream for my forthcoming servings of humble pie. Perhaps a cherry too...
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India's state-run airline has instructed flight crews to enthusiastically "Hail the Motherland" after every in-flight announcement. The order instructs cabin staff to exclaim the slogan "after a slight pause and with much fervour." It has drawn ridicule on social media where users are attacking the company's flaws.
"With immediate effect, all are required to announce 'Jai Hind' at the end of every announcement," Amitabh Singh, director of operations for Air India, said in a company-wide newsletter that went viral.
Air India crew now needs to announce "Jai Hind" on all its flights as per a new order today: pic.twitter.com/2Adtr34eTK — Tarun Shukla (@shukla_tarun) March 4, 2019
For more dramatic impact, Singh suggested crew members take a "slight pause" and make the proclamation with "much fervour."
It is not the first time the airline has prompted employees to pledge allegiance. In 2016, Air India officials issued a similar order in an effort to placate unhappy customers. "Faced with numerous complaints from its customers of being 'inhospitable' and 'insensitive,' " the company's chairman at the time, commanded cabin staff make the exclamation, suggesting it would help improve the airline's tattered reputation.
This time around, however, an official with Air India told reporters, the reminder is in line with the "mood of the nation."
The order to proclaim the patriotic slogan follows a military standoff with neighboring Pakistan, part of the countries' long dispute over the region of Kashmir. The latest conflict began on Feb. 14 after a man who claimed to be a member of the Pakastan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, killed dozens of Indian paramilitary troops in a car bomb attack within the India-administered portion of Kashmir.
In retaliation, India launched airstrike attacks over Pakistan's airspace which ended with an Indian fighter pilot being shot down and held for a couple of days. He was released by the government on Friday in a so-called "peace gesture." The move did ease tensions between the nuclear-armed countries, though it has not quelled the hostility.
General elections, coming up this spring, have also been stoking nationalist sentiments — a coincidence not lost on Mehbooba Mufti, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party. She noted in a tweet, "Little surprise that with General Elections around the corner, the josh of patriotism hasn't even spared the skies."
Little surprise that with General Elections around the corner, the josh of patriotism hasn't even spared the skies. https://t.co/AyVvEPDU3u— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) March 5, 2019
While some have welcomed the airline's show of loyalty, the directive has provoked online derision of the cash-strapped airline.
"Dear passengers, our flight is delayed by 10 hours. #JaiHind," Twitter user Krishna Murthy wrote.
Dear passengers, our flight is delayed by 10 hours. #JaiHind
Please don't be rude to us sir. #JaiHind#AirIndia pic.twitter.com/kKA63DP9Ev — krishnamurthy (@krishna0302) March 4, 2019
"Passengers should also say Jai Hind if they want Water or anything. And say Jai Hind when food is served. Also, toilet doors should open only if someone says Jai Hind Thrice," Twitter user Joy, quipped online.
Passengers should also say Jai Hind if they want Water or anything. And say Jai Hind when food is served. Also, toilet doors should open only if someone says Jai Hind Thrice https://t.co/8flPwfxIHB— Joy (@Joydas) March 4, 2019
"Now with this new move, I'm sure Air India will soon become profitable. Jai Hind!" wrote Harsch Goenka, chairman of RPG Enterprises.
Now with this new move, I'm sure Air India will soon become profitable. Jai Hind! pic.twitter.com/5Am6UyiQPe— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) March 4, 2019
Air India has not turned a profit since 2007 and a recent government offer to sell a controlling stake in it failed to attract any takers.


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Tired and frustrated with the chasm between what we've been studying in the book of Acts and what our church experience has been, CrossPoint is preparing for some big changes. Here is where we're going in the next five years. (You can listen to the audio of Pastor Logan sharing this vision here.)
Beyond-the-Horizon Vision (5 Years—November 2023)
Targeted Transformation through Spiritual Formation: Over the next five years we will turn fifty neighborhoods upside down for Christ through the formation of biblical communities, organized as a network of house churches, committed to obeying the Great Commandment and fulfilling the Great Commission.
Intentionally meeting in homes allows these communities to maintain 1) a size where meaningful relationships can develop and mutual discipleship can take place, 2) a simplicity that requires minimal overhead or programming, and 3) a style that emphasizes full participation and shared responsibility.
In this way, the spiritual cancers of indifference, spectatorship, and consumerism are combatted and instead each believer is enabled to identify and develop his or her spiritual gifts and to make a unique contribution to what God is doing in Utah.
As a result, these fifty neighborhoods will experience the love of Christ as these communities find practical and tangible ways to bless them and will see the love of Christ modeled as these communities prioritize time together around the Word, in fellowship, around the table, and in prayer.
These communities will serve as points of light, forming Kingdom constellations and connecting diverse neighborhoods across the entire state of Utah.
Background Vision (3 Years—November 2021)
- Financially Self-Supporting: By eliminating facilities and related maintenance and utility expenses, and streamlining administrative costs, we are no longer dependent on funding from outside of Utah for regular ministry activity. The generosity of each community covers the low overhead, as well as needs within the body and the neighborhood.
- Increased Leadership Capacity: Those with pastoral and teaching gifts are being mentored and prepared to start new house churches in new neighborhoods.
- Relocation into Strategic Neighborhoods: We have not only identified every neighborhood represented within the body, but also those that are not and are praying that someone within those neighborhoods might come to faith or that someone within the body might relocate there. We will encourage leaders, and new families coming into the area, to move into yet unreached neighborhoods for the purpose of starting a house church.
- Multiplication of House Churches: We will double the number of house churches each year, so as to have eighteen by year three, forming a broad ministry network.
Midground Vision (1 Year—November 2019)
Full Participation and Shared Responsibility: Every member of each house church has begun living as a disciple and moved away from being a mere spectator or consumer. This move is evident in part by 1) the identification and use of spiritual gifts, 2) having read through the whole Bible with someone, 3) praying for neighbors and neighborhood daily, and 4) having introduced someone else to the body.
Foreground Vision (90 Days—February 2, 2019)
- Read: Have everyone read Letters to the Church by Francis Chan. Every new attender will be given a copy to read.
- Neighborhood Identification: Map every neighborhood currently represented in the body and identify locations for initial house churches.
- Sell Property: Finalize sale of Taylorsville Campus and decide future of Provo Campus.
- Form House Churches: Begin three house churches for current membership. These initial communities will serve first as a lab for new processes and then as a model for future churches.
As time passes, we'll update these goals and mile markers. But here at the outset, we want to invite you to be a part of what God is doing. We'd love for you to take this journey with us.


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Tips for Buying a Home During a Competitive Real Estate Market
2017 has been another great year for Real Estate in Southern California but it's also been a very competitive year for buyers.
During a recent conversation with a client, we were asked what a buyer can do to help themselves when buying a home during a competitive Real Estate market and in this post, we've broken the answer to this question down into three tips.
Tip #1 – Get Your Finances in Order
One of the top things that every seller looks at when thinking about a buyer's offer is if their finances are in order.
If your finances can be described as "less than ideal" right now you should take the time to improve them before buying a home by doing things like improving your credit score, lowering your debt-to-income ratio, saving more money for a down payment and getting pre-approved for a mortgage loan.
Tip #2 – Make Sure You Know the True Value of a Home
Another important thing to do during a competitive Real Estate market is to know the true value of a home when writing an offer because, if you write an offer that's not competitive you run the risk of having your offer rejected and the seller choosing the most competitive offer from another buyer.
Tip #3 – Write A Winning Offer
Last of all, but most important, to give yourself the advantage over buyers during a competitive Real Estate market you should also write a clean offer that has the right terms & conditions, contingency period, and deposit amount.
The goal when writing an offer is to have your offer stand out from other buyers offers and the best way to do this is by writing an offer that will show the seller that you're serious about buying their home and ready to act now.
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To learn more about the things you can do to buy a home during a competitive Real Estate market, or to view homes for sale, contact Fred Sed Realty by calling us at (800) 921-9231 or connect with us online.


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Before he became Lal Daggy, Douglas Munyendo was listening and dancing to various musicians who came on the radio and televisions as a child in Nairobi, Kenya. It was when he was five years old that he became very sick and lost his hearing.
A childhood of music quickly silenced
After becoming deaf, he was sent to a special education school with a deaf program; there he learned KSL (Kenyan Sign Language) with the rest of his studies. The school discouraged music, thinking that there was no point to having music available to deaf children. Munyendo, however, sneaked off to watch music videos and studied musicians growing up. His favorites were the rappers Lil' Wayne, 50 Cent, and Akon who hails from Senegal himself.
On the way to success
With his inspirations, Munyendo took on the mantle of Lal Daggy and promoted his raps to recording companies. The recording companies weren't interested as the producers couldn't understand how a deaf rapper using sign language could become a success in the music industry. Lal Daggy proved them wrong when he showed them how: he made a music video of himself signing the raps and dancing with a voice-over of an interpreter rapping the words.
Once the studios saw this, they became interested finally and Lal Daggy took off from there.
His raps are mainly about being proud to be Kenyan and describes the beauty of the country. He now performs live at concerts and special events.
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Nil sine pulvere, nil praeter optima - Nothing without effort, nothing but the bestThe Department of Education and Training trading as Education Queensland International (EQI) CRICOS Provider Number 00608A
Over the past weekend, I accompanied a team of five very
talented Year 10 students (Jess Morgan, Haley Tran, Jamie Johns, Kiara Taylor
and Zeke Coleman) to the Optiminds state final at UQ. This event saw students
from primary and secondary schools from all parts of Queensland (and even some
from Western Australia) come together to take part in challenges based on
creativity and sustainability.
On the Saturday, all teams were required to present an idea
in a huge youth forum that their team believed would help create a future that
they would like to see. The Cav Road team developed the
Youth Engagement Service, or the Y.E.S. Initiative, an umbrella organisation
which would assist in the placement of students into various categories of
volunteer work allowing for young people to engage and give back to their
community as well as offering a more sustainable system to assist volunteer-run
organisations. The team received a lot of positive feedback from both Optiminds
officials and their peers and are very keen to continue developing this
Yesterday, the teams received a
new challenge similar in format to the one they received for regionals but
rather than having six weeks to formulate a solution, they had three hours. The
Cav Road team was one of the youngest in their division going up against other
teams mainly made up of Year 11 and 12 students. They did exceptionally well
and came runners up in their division receiving honours - they did an amazing job and certainly did themselves and Cav Road very
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2019 Pee Dee Heart Walk
Florence, SC
October 5, 2019
Life is why we walk.
Thanks to all our walkers, donors and volunteers who have accepted the challenge to help fight heart disease and stroke. We cannot achieve our mission without each one of you!
Date & Time
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Starts 10:00 AM
Downtown Florence - FMU Performing Arts Center
201 South Dargan Street
Florence, SC 29501
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SLR Newsletter 3.1
October 15, 1999
From: Smells Like Records
Subject: Smells Like Records Newsletter v3.1
Welcome to another Smells Like Records Newsletter. We¹ve got lots of news for you - a new Sonic Youth LP/CD, bands on tour, new Lee Hazlewood re-issues and Thurston Moore¹s label Ecstatic Peace! is being manufactured
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SYR 4 will be released on Nov. 8th and is a new double LP/CD by Sonic Youth. The material on SYR 4 was written by 20th century modern composers and was performed by Sonic Youth with Takehisa Kosugi, Jim O¹Rourke, Christian Wolff, William Winant, Christian Marclay, Coco Haley Gordon Moore, and Wharton Tiers. The compositions on this record were written by John Cage, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Pauline Oliveres, Yoko Ono and other Modern Composers. The works of these composers have proved to be some of the most important and effectual works of the 20th century bridging the gaps between Music, Art, Philosophy and in some cases Mathmatics. These compositions are not classical compositions in the traditional sense but rather are abstractions in musical theory and ideology where as the end result is as much a product of each of the musicians individually, the ensemble as a whole and the composers intentions and direction.
Two Dollar Guitar has just finished up their follow-up to 1998¹s Train Songs record; 'Weak Beats and Lame-Ass Rhymes'. Recorded over the span of over a year at the sonic youth studio, this record is their best effort to date. This record finds Two Dollar Guitar reaping the benefits of years of writing and playing together. The record features many special guests such as Carla Bouzlich (of Scarnella & Geraldine Fibbers), Nels Cline , Smokey Hormel (Beck, Tom Waits), Christina Rosenvinge, Doug Easley and Tim Prudhomme(of Fuck) to name a few. The record will be coming out in January of 2000 but you have a chance to preview this new material as Two Dollar Guitar plays shows throughout the end of the year; check the Web Site for more information.
As we mentioned earlier, Smells Like Records is now helping Thurston Moore with his label Ecstatic Peace! The first two projects with which we are involved in is the much anticipated Loren Mazzacane Connor's Dagget Years Box Set and G.E. Stinson¹s new record Vapor.
The Dagget Years is a four CD set which collects Loren¹s first seven self-released albums of guitar improvisation as well as one other album of unreleased material. The box is a hand assembled limited edition pressing with liner notes by Loren Mazzacane Connor and Byron Coley and will be available October 18th. In conjunction with this special release Thurston has booked Loren to play every night (almost) of The New Music Series at the NYC music space Tonic. (See below for more info)
We should also mention that Sonic Youth has booked most of the month at the beautiful New York Music Space Tonic at 107 Norfolk Street. Steve booked the Sunday night singer songwriter series bringing in such talented people as Souled American, Jim O¹Rourke, Christina Rosenvinge, Shelby Bryant (of the clears) and Johnny Dowd. Thurston & Kim booked the Monday Night film series which will feature some rare Sonic Youth/Thurston Moore films as well as some other documenturies. Thurston also booked the New Music series which pretty much covers the rest of the week. In conjunction with the release of the Dagget Years box set and Loren's 50th birthday Thurston has booked Loren to play almost every night of October. The standard format for the evening will be Loren playing either alone or with his band Haunted House (which features Susan Langille and Andrew Burns), then a special guest will play and then usually they will play a collaberative set with Loren. Some of the people Thurston has brought in to play are Rafael Toral, Jim O¹Rourke, The No Neck Blues Band, Dean Roberts, Chan Marshall and The Tren Brothers.
So that's what has been happening with us lately. This winter is going to be pretty exciting with new releases by Memphis Author Robert Gordon, Austrialian instrumentalists Hungry Ghosts, and Shelby Bryant who was the primary creative force behind the clears. Also this winter there will be more new music from Sonic Youth as well as the release of Two Dollar Guitar¹s new record.
Sonic Youth, initially comprising of guitarist / vocalists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, guitarist / bassist / vocalist Kim Gordon and drummer Richard Edson, were formed in New York City in 1981. A product of the No-Wave music scene of the late 1970s, the group had their roots in abrasive, experimental music, with Moore and Ranaldo having previously worked with the experimental composer Glenn Branca. The band were joined in 1985 by drummer Steve Shelley, and have now recorded 14 albums together, as well as many side and solo projects. Their work has been consistently challenging and innovative, and they are widely regarded as one of the most intriguing and influential bands of their time.
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Anti Aging Supplements
HGH Resources
When an HGH deficiency or GHD is left untreated it can cause numerous problems such as poor memory, inability to effectively exercise, or decreased vitality.
The study of aging is called gerontology and the science behind aging is a newer science that in just 30 years has made huge progress.
HGH has been tagged under many names; it has been called many things.
Atherosclerosis – who gets it? It is easier to look at who doesn't get it. Atherosclerosis actually starts much earlier than when the symptoms occur.
According to a recent report in the Chicago Tribune the number of US teens that are using synthetic HGH has more than doubled from 2012 to 2013.
Since the first use of human growth hormone (HGH) by bodybuilders, it's remained an anabolic with plenty of conflicting ideas and opinions associated with it.
A question you hear thrown around often is whether weight loss is possible when you are HGH deficient.
There has been some talk about the possibility that some NBA players were using HGH.
Gynecomastia AKA Gyno, man breasts, moobs, bitch tits, man tits and man hooters is a condition we don't hear a lot about and yet any man who either takes or considers taking steroids and/or synthetic HGH injections should know what gynecomastia is and the increased risk the use of steroids or HGH presents.
The children's author Dr. Seuss once wrote, "A person's a person, no matter how small." But since society tends to admire taller people more than short, no matter what age we are, both adults and children look for ways to improve their height.
Thursday afternoon, Donovan McNabb, who is a quarterback with the Minnesota Vikings bounded onto the field with his teammates in Mankato, Minn.
It is interesting then that some researchers now think Metformin, which has been available for use for several decades, could be what people have been searching for all these years. It is touted as being capable of extending lifespan up to 120 years. How true or realistic is this thinking?
Serostim® is an HGH injection that is made up from recombinant DNA Somatropin that unlike other brands like Saizen, Norditropin and Genotropin is only approved by the FDA to treat AIDS related wasting.
Millions of people are estimated to be affected by carpal tunnel syndrome in the United States.
Most times, people tend to think about men when talking about those who use human growth hormone.
Amino acids are important to our bodies – they are the building blocks of protein.
Just over one year ago today Major League Baseball the Biogenesis scandal occurred that lead to over a dozen suspensions, which in turn placed the focus on embattled slugger Alex Rodriguez.
Friday September 12, 2014 the NFL put forth changes to their drug policy and HGH testing, and just hours after doing so the NFL players' Union voted on it.
If you haven't heard of the amino acid L-Valine, it's important that you become familiar with it, because L-Valine is one of the essential amino acids that your body requires for a number of functions like soothing the nervous system or improving cognitive function.
While we may be more aware of HGH as being a problem found in children, especially when associated with a number of conditions. The fact is HGH deficiency can and does occur in adults.
Omnitrope® (Somatropin) is a brand of synthetic HGH injections that is regulated by the FDA and that requires a prescription from a doctor to be obtained
Norditropin HGH injections are manufactured by Novo Nordisk Inc and are administered with either the FlexPro 5 mg/1.5 mL, 10 mg/1.5 mL or 15 mg/1.5 mL, or the Norditropin NordiFlex pen.
Zorbtive is used for the treatment of Short Bowel Syndrome in those patients who are receiving specific nutritional support.
HGH testing has been around for some time, but earlier methods were not reliable and created a great deal of controversy, especially among professional athletes.
Tev-Tropin® is a growth hormone manufactured by TEVA Pharmaceuticals. Tev-Tropin injections are synthetic HGH (human growth hormone).
Wherever there are athletes and sports, there are going to be injuries, it really is inevitable.
On the market are numerous HGH supplements manufactured by a number of different companies.
You workout out! That's great – good for you! But have you ever considered the idea that you might have an imbalance in strength?
Genotropin HGH injections are manufactured by Pfizer and are administered with the Genotropin pen, which is a device used to mix the Genotropin Lyophilized Powder and then inject it.
Saizen HGH injections are manufactured by Merck Serono and are administered with the Saizen reconstitution device.
According to Sytropin manufacturers, they produce a revolutionary supplement that is supposed to increase lean muscle mass, decrease body fat and decrease your weight.
Genf20 Plus is safer than HGH injections because it is made from natural ingredients, and because it does not risk suppressing HGH production since it stimulate it.
Perhaps you have envied people who eat as they like, and can still remain fit, or at least slim.
In this article, we're going to talk about the differences between HGH and steroid. You'll find out if HGH is a steroid and which one you should choose.
The laws surrounding Human Growth Hormone can be quite confusing.
It happened – one day your erection went from being straight to having a 90 degree bend.
HGH is naturally produced in your body by your pituitary gland.
Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a digestive disorder that deprives the sufferer of nutrients available in food consumed and essential for healthy living.
How to Raise Testosterone Levels Naturally
The testicles are the main place where the hormone testosterone is made. Testosterone is the main hormone responsible for male reproduction, sexuality, hair growth, muscle mass, bone density and red blood cells. It also plays a role in your overall well-being. Women also have small levels of testosterone in the body.
By the time you reach 30, your testosterone levels are starting to decline. The amount of testosterone will keep going down as you age. There are a number of prescription drugs that can interfere with your body's testosterone production. Statin drugs are one family of drugs that have a negative impact on testosterone production. In addition, estrogen levels go up because exposure mimicking compounds are rampant and found in our food, water, and environment.
Replacing Testosterone – Know Your Options
If you are experiencing erectile dysfunction, decreased libido, problems with your memory or concentration, and/or depressed moods, and you believe that low testosterone levels might be the reason, you should have your testosterone levels tested. Your testosterone levels fluctuate throughout the day, so it's a good idea to have a few blood tests done throughout the day to get a true reading.
If the tests reveal you have low testosterone levels, there are various bioidentical and synthetic testosterone products on the market. DHEA products are other options. DHEA is an abundant androgen precursor prohormone found in the body that produces a number of key hormones. That includes testosterone in men and estrogen in women.
None of these should be undertaken except under the guidance of a physician or Naturopathic doctor. However, here are 10 things that you can do yourself to help in the production of testosterone and thus increase your testosterone level. Let's have a look.
#1 Start Doing High Intensity Exercises
High intensity exercises like peak fitness are a great place to start. Combine them with intermittent fasting and enjoy the maximum benefits. Both are linked to testosterone increases. Short, intense exercise workouts have been shown to stop the decline of testosterone and increase levels. Whereas, prolonged moderate exercise or aerobic exercise have no effect or a negative effect on testosterone.
Intermittent fasting is shown to boost testosterone by increasing other hormones linked to healthy testosterone levels and increased libido. This includes leptin, insulin, adiponectin, colecystokinin (CKK), melanocortins and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).
Once you have exercised, take the time to have a whey protein meal, because it can have additional testosterone boosting benefits. Here's a great example of the good peak fitness routine. Take 3 minutes to warm up then for 30 seconds exercise as hard and fast as you can. You should feel like if you went another couple of seconds you'd die.
For 90 seconds recover at a slow-moderate pace. Repeat the cycle 7 times. Your full workout time is 20 minutes and 75% of the time is spent warming up, recovering, and cooling down. Your intense workout time is only 4 minutes in total. It's hard to believe that can give you such excellent benefits. You can use just about any equipment you want. They key is about pushing yourself for the 30 seconds not on what you are using to do it. To begin with, only do 2 or 3 repetitions. Work your way up to the 7.
#2 Weight Loss
According to the Endocrine Society's 2012 research, if you are overweight, losing those extra pounds can help to increase testosterone levels. Overweight men have a much higher likelihood of low testosterone, so this can be a helpful way to increase your testosterone production.
If you are serious that you are going to shed the extra pounds, you will need to make some specific changes, beginning with reducing, and preferably eliminating, sugar from your diet, since excess fructose and sugar are directly linked to the obesity epidemic society is currently facing. That means you'll need to cut out soda, fruit juice, packaged foods, etc. It also means the less obvious sugars like eating excessive fruits or using healthy sweeteners like agave. Your total sugar/fructose consumption, including that from fruits, should not exceed 25 grams/day. This is even more important if you have high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure or you are overweight.
You also should eliminate milk and grains from your diet. This includes raw milk, because milk contains lactose, which is a sugar that increases insulin resistance that can make it difficult to lose weight. Refined carbs like bagels, waffles, cereals and other processed foods quickly turn to sugar when they break down, that increases insulin levels, and it can lead to insulin resistance, which is at the root of almost very chronic disease along with weight gain.
As you cut things out of your diet, you need to be replacing them with healthy choices like healthy fats, fruits, and vegetables. Your body likes carbs that come from micronutrient vegetables rather than sugars and grains, because the conversion to simple sugars is significantly decrease and so is your insulin level.
What you eat will be the force behind how successful you are with your weight loss.
#3 Get Adequate Zinc
Zinc is directly linked to testosterone production and taking a zinc supplement for just 6 weeks has shown a significant improvement in testosterone in men with low levels of testosterone. In addition, diets with restricted zinc show a decrease in testosterone.
According to recent numbers as much as 45% of adults 60+ years of age, have lower zinc levels than what's recommended. According to a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, even after taking a zinc supplement 20-25% of older adults will still suffer from low levels of zinc.
The best source of zinc available to you is eating protein rich foods that include fish, meat, raw milk, beans, raw cheese, kefir, and yogurt. Chemicals used to grow foods, feed animals can deplete the soil of nutrients that includes zinc, and the lack of these nutrients is passed on to you. In addition, preparing your food can deplete nutrients like zinc even more.
If you are going to take a zinc supplement, you should aim for around 40 mg or less a day. If you take too much zinc, it can cause problems with the absorption of other minerals.
#4 Optimize Vitamin D Levels
Vitamin D is needed by our bodies and yet these days most of us do not receive adequate amounts of Vitamin D because we do not expose our skin to the sun. Vitamin D serves many functions in the body and one of them is increasing your testosterone levels, which helps to increase your libido. A study was done where overweight men were provided with a Vitamin D supplement for a year and after that year; the study found these men had significant increases in their testosterone levels.
Bottom line – Vitamin D deficiency is at epidemic levels in the United State and in many other areas of the world. The first thing you need to do is get tested to see if you are deficient. The recommended levels have gone up in the last few years. It used to be between 40 to 60 ng/m, but now the officials say that is should be 50-70 ng/ml. Ask for the 25(OH)D test or 25-hydroxyvitamin D test.
The best way to get your Vitamin D levels in the normal range is to expose your skin to the sun until it begins to turn a very light shade of pink. We don't mean go get a sunburn. But your skin does change color when the sun's rays hit it. When your skin starts to turn pink, you are getting enough Vitamin D.
If you can't expose your skin to the sun, then the next best thing is to take a Vitamin D supplement. Liquid drops are better than capsules because you will have a higher absorption. If you are taking a supplement, research suggests that you need 8,000 IU per day, but talk to your doctor before you do anything.
#5 Reduce Your Stress
Modern day life is stressful. It seems that we are all running around with too much stress in our lives and that causes your body to increase its production of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. When that happens, you begin to have trouble losing belly fat and it blocks testosterone so that it cannot work in your body. This likely occurs because when you have higher levels of cortisal you are in the 'fight or flight' mode and that thus your body thinks it is reacting to an emergency and so it stops everything except what's necessary for you to live.
Bottom line – you need to learn how to reduce the stress in your life. Many have found success with yoga, laughter, meditation, prayer, walking, etc. You need to find what's right for you and then implement it into your life. You need to create ways to reduce your stress, and that will reduce your cortisol, which will increase your testosterone.
#6 Strength Training
In addition to intensity exercising, bodybuilding and strength training can also help to increase your testosterone levels, provided you make sure you are getting enough intensity exercising. Implementing the two types of exercise is a win-win for your testosterone levels.
#7 Get The Sugar Out Of Your Diet
Not only is sugar addicting it does great harm to the body and it reduces your testosterone levels. It is estimated that every American consumes at least 12 teaspoons of sugar each day, which is the equivalent of 2 tons in your lifetime.
Why are we so addicted to sugar? Well, it tastes great and it triggers a pleasure response in your brain through your opioid and dopamine signals. In other words, it acts like a drug in your body. It works on your body both in a physical and emotional level. Cutting out or at the very least reducing sugar will have huge benefits to your health and one of those is an increased production of testosterone.
#8 Enjoying Healthy Fats
We make the mistake of thinking we only need monounsaturated fats (avocados, almonds, pumpkin seeds, olive oil, etc.) and polyunsaturated fats (flax seeds, sunflower, walnuts, etc.) but the truth is that we also need saturated fats.
For years we were told that research showed saturated fats caused heart disease but it seems newer research has changed their opinion on that and say we need healthy saturated fats in our diet as well.
To optimize your testosterone levels you need all three fats. What you don't need is trans fats – they should be avoided at all costs. Examples of some healthy fats you can consume, that will help to increase your testosterone levels, include olive oil, raw nuts, coconut oil, egg yolks, avocados, etc.
#9 Increase Your BCAA
BCAA stands for Branch Chain Amino Acids and research shows that can cause higher testosterone levels. A good place to get your BCAA is through whey protein. You can also take a BCAA supplement, which will contain concentrated leucine, found in dairy products like whey protein. Even when you get lots of leucine from your diet, it often goes to waste or it becomes a building block rather than being used as an anabolic agent. For an anabolic environment to exist, you need to take your leucine consumption far beyond what would be considered your maintenance level.
HGH is a growth hormone also known as somatotropin or Somatropin. This peptide hormone stimulates growth, cell reproduction, cell regeneration and hormone production. Our body produces HGH or human growth hormone, through the pituitary gland. HGH has many functions in the body and one of them is helping to increase testosterone levels and to maintain healthy levels.
However, by the time you are 30 the production is on the decline. That means it can no longer provide all the functions it should and so your testosterone levels begin to slide. You can stop this by taking a quality HGH supplement, which works by helping the pituitary gland to produce more natural HGH. Do not confuse this with an HGH injection, which is synthetic HGH that is injected into your body and poses many dangers.
Implementing all of these suggestions would be great for your testosterone levels. If you are feeling overwhelmed that this is an incredible amount of change, why not start with one or two suggestions, get comfortable with those, and then add another and another. Before long, you'll be living a healthier life and you will be enjoying higher testosterone levels.
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In November 2003, Hanneke Hops was profiled in The Chronicle. This 56-year-old woman claimed that her daily injections of HGH had her feeling happier, stronger, and healthier.
The appealing benefits of human growth hormone (HGH) are no longer a secret. Many people have been so drawn by them that different companies have flooded the market with various products that supposedly help to boost the HGH levels in the body. These products range from HGH injections to releasers, activators and sprays.
It has been observed that most people suffering from back pain have low levels of human growth hormone. HGH deficiency can lead to chronic degeneration of connective tissues resulting in back problems.
The testicles are the main place where the hormone testosterone is made. Testosterone is the main hormone responsible for male reproduction, sexuality, hair growth, muscle mass, bone density and red blood cells.
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Recombinant DNA is a term used to describe DNA whose creation was brought about by the combination of two or more strands. DNA holds all information needed for the re-creation of an organism.
The beauty industry is a multi billion dollar one not because people want to look beautiful per se but because they want to look young.
The New Year is creeping up quite quickly and you know, with every new year is a new year resolution waiting to spring into action.
Honey is a sweet food which only an insignificant number of people will be able to turn down.
Many processes in the body are usually impacted by decline in human growth hormone (HGH) levels usually occurs as people grow older. Among those are processes in the brain and any negative modifications affecting these will manifest adversely on your mental health.
If you follow professional bodybuilding at all, you may have noticed that many bodybuilders look pregnant. They have distended guts otherwise called big stomachs.
Vitamin A is one of many reasons why you need to maintain a healthy diet. It is one of numerous nutrients that help to keep you in good health. How does it exactly help? What are the signs of deficiency? Where can you get more of it? You will find answers to these questions and more in this article.
The secret to looking younger than one's age lies in making the right decision. You will, no doubt, have read or heard different ideas on how to slow aging and keep your body young. It is very likely you have heard about the importance of diet and lifestyle choices, among others. But then, many people still prefer loading up on a variety of beauty products that promise awesome results but sometimes only disappoint. There's often nothing better than keeping things simple. Here's are some easy, practical things you can do to look years younger without having plastic surgery or turning your face to a testing ground for chemicals in the guise of skincare products.
From what has been said so far, you could say that the importance of growth hormone for sleep quality improvement is already obvious.
The eyes may rightly be described as the light of the body. Without them, a person will be in darkness all the time. But as undesirable as it may be, vision loss does happen all the same, particularly as people get older. It is therefore not surprising to see many older people with glasses. However, it has been suggested that having sufficient human growth hormone (HGH) in the body can help to improve vision.
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As an institution that values community spirit and a commitment to helping those in need, our partnership with the United Way of Central New Mexico and the UNM Foundation is a source of organizational unity and pride.
Through the annual UNM Gives Campaign -- coordinated across the various UNM communities -- our faculty, staff and employees have consistently contributed time and money to charitable organizations in an effort to change lives and circumstances.
The 2078 UNM Gives Campaign runs October 2 through November 17.
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Blog Archives
Great Missional Community Resource: Soma Fast Track Training
I've learned a whole heck of a lot from Soma Communities, on Church Planting, Sharing the Gospel, and missional communities that we are implementing in the creation of The Exchange Community in Jackson, Mo. Recently Soma did a fast track training for their missional community leaders. This is some great material to go through if you're leading a missional community or are interested in starting a missional community
Here's the links to Soma's Fast Track Training Audio/Video and their notes:
1. The Story of God // Caesar Kalinowski
The Story of God Training Videos One & Two
2. Vision for Missional Communities // Jeff Vanderstelt
3. Gospel, Power & Purpose // Jeff Vanderstelt
4. Gospel DNA // Jeff Vanderstelt & Abe Meysenburg
5. Gospel in Everyday Rhythms // Jeff Vanderstelt
6. Gospel Fluency // Jeff Vanderstelt
7. Creating a Disciple-Making Enviroment // Jeff Vanderstelt
8. Gospel Shepherding // Abe Meysenburg
DNA Guide // Your Story, God's Story
9. Missional Community Covenant // Jeff Vanderstelt
10. Spirit Led Life // Jeff Vanderstelt
11. Spiritual Warfare // Jeff Vanderstelt
Here's a link to all of their materials
Picture found here along with the post: Ten Reasons Missional Communities Fail
Come Die With Me
The Scriptures are often full of calls to humble oneself, take up your cross, deny yourself, decrease in importance so Christ can increase, to lose your life in order to find it in Christ, to become less of a focus so more of Christ can be seen through you. We often don't find fulfillment in Christ or success in mission because we desperately are afraid of dying. Watch this short video from Jeff Vandertelt:
We've got nothing to really lose, and, surprisingly, nothing to gain either, in living life on mission. We have everything already! In Jesus we already have the eternal love, favor, and kingdom of our Heavenly Father! We have his unconditional acceptance no matter how we perform, no matter what we accomplish, no matter how we fail. The only thing we DO have to gain in dying to ourselves and living for God's purposes is the precious life of someone lost who can be found through YOU. And what's funny, is when we lay down our lives, desires, and preferences for the good of God's kingdom and the benefit of others, we actually find life that if abundant, full, and meaningful! Our doubts, anxieties, and problems fade away because our eyes are off ourselves and are placed where they were created to be, on our Savior and on others. We're then filled with the greatest joy of being on the grandest adventure of all as we join in Christ's mission.
- If what Jeff says in this video is true, how should it change your life, your ministry, your priorities?
- What do you need to die to in order to live for God's glory and the salvation of others?
- How is Jesus the answer to all the fears in your heart on this issue? How is he greater than the things you will give up?
Purchase the full talk from the Verge Network here for $2.99.
5 Ways to Be Missional This Labor Day
Labor day is one of those days of rest and rejuvenation. For our Nation its a yearly rhythm of rest that we all enjoy, but can also be leveraged for gospel purposes. Below are 5 ways you can be missional this Labor Day
- Hold a neighborhood barbeque. Invite everyone on the block. If you've never done this in your neighborhood, don't ask them to bring all the food. Partner with a few members of your Missional Community or Small group to pay for the meal. For those who have participated in the past, encourage them to partner with you in bringing a side dish to share.
- If you own a boat or have a place at the lake, Labor Day is a great day for a little cross-pollination. Invite a couple from your Missional Community and invite another couple who are unchurched or dechurched. It's a great time to introduce friends and build trust between your Christian community and those who don't yet believe.
- Invite your unchurched friends to join you and another Christian in Something you love. If you love to camp or fish. If you just take the opportunity of Labor Day to hit up a good matinée and some lunch, invite unchurched this is another great opportunity for cross-pollination and trust building.
- Show care to first responders. A lot of people have Labor Day off. Some work it every year. Show love to your first responders. Bring by food or gift packages for your firemen or police officers. Talk to the Fire chief or police chief and see if your Missional Community, Small Group, or church can set up some grills and serve them a meal.
- If school doesn't start for your community until after Labor Day, serve the underprivileged about to go back to school. Pay a beautician or barber to come in and offer free haircuts. Collect and hand out backpacks and school supplies.
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4 Ways to be Missional This Easter
- Host An Easter Egg Hunt. Get together with your small group or Missional Community and hold a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt. If you have connecting lawns (i.e. without fences) talk to your neighbors on either side of you and make arrangements to hide eggs on their lawns as well. Use mostly plastic eggs with Candy inside, but you could also have some hard boiled eggs as well. Send flyers out to all the neighborhood families with Kids 2 weeks in advance.
- Have an Easter barbecue. On the Saturday before Easter, invite people over for the first barbecue of the year. Have games like washers, Hill Billy golf, beanbag toss, etc. for the kids and adults to play.
- Have an Easter brunch. On Easter invite your neighbors to come over Sunday at noon for Egg bake casserole.
- Create Easter Snack Baskets For Your Neighbors. Especially if your neighbors don't have children or grand children, they might not have much reason to get Easter Candy. Make a little gift bag for each house on the block and hand them out with a simple message, "Happy Easter from the _________Family."
Now if you noticed I didn't say much about overt evangelism in any of the above suggestions. That can be done. Yet, your initial goal might just be to get to know your neighbors and to create a greater sense of community in your neighborhood. Depending on where you are with building trust and friendship with your neighbors, you might want to add some Gospel elements into any of the above suggestions.
- With an Easter egg hunt, you could hide some resurrection eggs amongst the kids. Mark each Resurrection egg with a Cross. When the hunt is over, gather all the kids afterwards and talk about each item that they found. Make sure you trade a great piece of candy for the Resurrection eggs.
- Share an Easter story book or video with the children to share the real meaning of Easter. This is also a great time to give the parents a break by providing them snakes and drinks. Get to know the parents while the kids are busy with the story and supervised in the other room.
- Decorate Easter cookies. Bake plenty of Easter themed sugar cookies. Have the traditional eggs, ducks, and bunnies, but also crosses and any other biblical Easter cookie shapes you can find. Talk about how each one connects to Easter.
- Do an Easter craft. Decorate crosses, foam door hangers, wreaths or create your own resurrection scenes. There are some great resources for doing crafts and telling the Easter message.
- Hand out age appropriate Easter tracts, books or videos.
I hope this helps you take a step towards building relationships with your neighbors and possibly witnessing to the love of Christ. It almost goes without saying, but you can always invite your neighbors or friends to church Good Friday or Sunday Morning. These days are often some of the most compelling and evangelist sermons of the year and often have cool experiential elements as well in many churches. Whatever you do, do it prayerfully and know that God's working through it.
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6 Ways to be Missional with the Super Bowl
Millions of people are getting ready to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday. Personally, I'm not a huge football fan. Usually the Super Bowl is the only game I watch all year, but even though I don't love the game, I love hanging out with people. The commercials and the food are always good as well. Yet can one use the Super Bowl as a chance to witness?
Here are a few things to think about being Missional with the Super Bowl:
- Don't hijack the Super Bowl. Don't have a bible study during the half-time show or the commercial breaks. People aren't going to appreciate a bait and switch, especially if it means missing things something they really enjoy on Super Bowl Sunday.
- Host a Superbowl party and invite some unchurched people to get to know them better. Also invite at least 2 or 3 members of your Missional Community so that relationships are formed between both groups. This will make it easier to invite them to join your MC for the Story later.
- Make it better. If you've been invited to a Super Bowl party already, how can you "Bring the better wine" as Jeff Vanderstelf often says? Bring the best food or drinks. Be the biggest helper to the host. How can you make things better for everyone so that people are glad that the Christians showed up at the party?
- Listen to others. As you discuss sports, the commercials, and life, listen to the stories others are telling. They will give you clues to where the Gospel can be spoken into their lives.
- See this Sunday as an opportunity to serve. Ask the host if they need you to show up early to help set up. Be quick to pitch in as needs arise, and stay to help clean when the party is over.
- Pray. If you're hosting, share a quick prayer of thanks for the food and all your friends. Pray before, during, and after, that God might show his love thorough you and that relationships and trust might be built.
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Who Has God Put Into Your Life That Needs Jesus?
Above is a picture of a Web of Relationships. Scripture says we've all been put in our own web of relationships so that we might win people there for Jesus. The Apostle Paul says in Acts 17:26-27,
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Paul says that God has placed every person where they are at, and when they would live, so that they might perhaps find the living God and Savior of us all. Paul also says, in Romans 10: 9-17, the only way (outside of supernatural means) that people find God is through others sharing the word of God with them. So then, with these two passages together, I've always thought that God has placed each Christian exactly where they are because they have friends, neighbors, coworkers, family, accuatances, etc. that need to know the love of Christ.
Think thorough the following five areas of your life and think of who you introduce to Jesus:
- Vocation – Every Christian is a full time minister. God just route our paychecks through different routes. God has placed you in your job so that you could serve others well through those means, but also so that you might be a witness to others. Who do you know at work that is unchurched? Do you ever get together with them socially? If not, how can you engage them to grow your relationship?
- Location – All of us live in a place surrounded by people,. Even if we live in the country there are people around us. Do you know you're neighbors? Do you know who are churched or unchurched? If so, who can you start engaging or growing in relationship with? Who can you invite to hang out with other MC members, join you in serving others, or to hear The Story? If you don't know your neighbors, get to know them. Bring them over some extra soup, invite them to a party, or serve them in some way.
- Recreation – All of us have hobbies that we enjoy. God's given us all different skills and interests. God has also given us all unique relational connections to others. How can you use your passions and interests to connect with others? Who are you already in relationship with that you can connect to other members of the MC or invite to an event?
- Relations – Who in your family needs to know Jesus? Can you invite them to social gathering of other MC members? Would they enjoy The Story? Would they join us in service projects?
- Frequentation – being a Patron or being a regular somewhere. "Sometimes you want to know where everybody knows your name." How do people get to know your name, when you take interest in their names and engage in their lives. Where do you frequent? Where are you a regular? Have you stopped to learn the names and stories of the people you see regularly at the park, bank, theatre, market, restaurant, pub, etc? If not, where can you start?
Action Steps
- Walk this week with eyes open to the people in the background of your life. Do you know them?
- Make a commitment to try to meet 3 new people each week and grow in your relationship with one person you have met or already know who is unchurched.
What do you think? Is this list helpful? Why or why not? What do you think of the terms that are used. They're all real words, yet some, such as frequentation, doesn't get used all that much these days. I'm interested in your comments and suggestions.
7 Ways To Be Missional This Christmas
Christmas is one of the most magical times of the year. While there are a lot of distractions from its true meaning, Christmas is still a great time to share the message of God's love through Jesus Christ. Below are seven ways you can reach out to others and show God's love this Christmas.
1. Give gifts to people who really need help.
- There are scores of organizations that help you give a Christmas Gift in the name of Christ. We do a giving tree at our church and collect toys and presents that have been request from poor parent's for their children. Toys for Tots is another great tradition. Let you kids help and see that Christmas isn't about them and their presents but giving gifts because of the gift we've receive of Jesus and the eternal life He brings.
- Give a Life-Giving Gift because of the Life-Giving Gift we've received in Jesus. World Vision and Living Water are great places you can give life-giving gifts of water, food, or animals to improve the lives of children across the world. You can give a gift on behalf of another in addition or in replacement of a gift you would normally give.
- Is there someone in your neighborhood or at work that is in need of something this Christmas? Don't just spend money to spend money, but if you know a need, try to fill it.
2. Give Small gifts to your Neighbors
- My wife loves to bake. Every year, she makes a number of goody sacks to hand out to our neighbors. Then we go door-to-door and hand them out to people. It's a great reason to knock on a neighbor's door and spend a couple of minutes getting to know them a little better. We just had a neighborhood bonfire last month. When we invited one neighbor, she immediately asked if we were the people who came over and gave them cookies two years before. She still remembered and it seemed to make it easier for her to join us because of the groundwork that was laid two years before.
3. Invite someone to your Christmas Celebration
- At certain times in our lives, we know people who don't have anywhere to go on Christmas. Some just don't have family. Some Just live too far away for their families to get together. Is there someone like this in your life, Maybe a college student or an elderly neighbor? If so, make sure you invite them to join your family for Christmas. You don't have to invite everyone, but if you see someone who will be alone, invite them into your family for that evening.
- We have a Christmas Celebration every year. Our Church has a few Church services every Christmas Eve. We have people over between 5 and 7 that night. We invite anyone we know to come over for some chilli, soup, and a lot of Christmas snacks and beverages. We invite friends who volunteer and have to be at each church service that night so that they have somewhere to go to kill some time. But we also invite some neighbors to stop by if they like. Surprisingly, a number of them do. We then reserve Christmas Morning just for family.
4. Bless those who can't celebrate Christmas
- Think about the Firefighters, Police officers, Gas Station Attendant who have to work on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. Bring them a gift basket of donuts or Christmas goodies to bless them when they are probably feeling low from being away from their families. Maybe even leave them a Christmas card and a written message about Jesus' birth. For more check out this article.
5. Rehearse the Christmas Story
- Peter says we must always be ready to give an answer for our faith anytime someone asks (1 pe 3:15). At Christmas time, especially if you're showing love in unexpected ways, people are going to ask you why. We have to be ready. In our Church plant we are always rehearsing the Gospel Story through the major themes of Creation -> Fall -> Redemption -> Restoration. It's real easy to be ready to tell a shortened version of this story with an emphasis on the expectation of the messiah and the birth of Jesus. Don't just tell people "This is the day Jesus was born." Explain to them the whole story and why Jesus' birth is important. If not, people won't understand the message.
6. Invite people to your Christmas Church Services
- As Christians, we should be in the habit of inviting people into our lives before we invite them to church. Yet if there is any day when unchurched or dechurch people are willing to go to church it might be Christmas. During the Christmas season, many are hurting and longing for something more. They're searching to reclaim some magic in the world. If you know someone who isn't going to be going to church, invite them to join you. Pick them up, sit together, and talk about the message, the music, and anything else that can further the conversation.
7. Gather your MC and sing Christmas Carols
- I was hesitant to put this one down. I'm not sure if caroling is really helpful in the Christian witness. It seems a bit intrusive like cold-call evangelism. Yet, I do believe this could be done right. I think elderly people would be more accepting of this gift of music. It's something they experienced or participated in as a youth and is likely to bring warm feelings of nostalgia. The other group I think would benefit this is if you went caroling at people's homes that you've been sharing life with through your Missional Community. If enough ground work has already been laid, Caroling could be a great way to sing the Gospel message and show love, yet not seem too strange.
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9 Ways To Be Missional This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is two days away. How are you going to use this day to show the love of God. Below are 9 ways to be missional this Thanksgiving:
- Thanksgiving is a day of abundance. We celebrate God's provision for all we need for our body and life. We celebrate this with the greatest amount of food and we celebrate with family. Yet not everyone has family they can celebrate with. Is there a neighbor or coworker that doesn't have anywhere to go this year? Jesus loved the unloved and the unlovable. Practice Christian hospitality and invite them over.
- Make Thanksgiving a time of remembering the love of God. Tell each person at the Table why you thank God that He has placed them in your life.
- Rather than give a quick prayer before the meal, ask people what they are thankful for this year and encorporate what they say into your prayer.
- Focus on the things that matter. Thanksgiving can sometime become a time when you have to sit and talk to that relative with allegiances to different political parties or a different football team. Don't use this as an opportunity to start a fight. Rather, make every conversation an opportunity to show God's love.
- Don't try to be a perfect host. Remember, God is Gracious so you don't have to prove yourself and God is Glorious so you don't have to fear what others think. Be yourself, love others, and let God control the way other's look at you.
- One of the best times to grow relationships is around a dinner table, and we spend a long time around the table on Thanksgiving. Make the most of your time with others. Get to know them better. Ask them about their jobs, their past, their kids, their hopes so you'll get to know where the Gospel can speak into their lives.
- Get to know the Kids around the table as well. They can often be overlooked or excluded in conversation. Love on them and let them know your house is good place to be at.
- Not everyone likes sports, but if you have some people who want to watch the football game, turn it on. Sit down and enjoy their company and get to know them better.
- In my house, we end up always cooking way too much and have more leftovers than what we'll want to eat for the rest of the week. Make sure you send some food home with your guests. Do you have any neighbors who don't cook? Send them over a plate if they didn't join you for thanksgiving.
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13 Ways to be Missional on Halloween
Halloween is a great time to meet new neighbors. If you have kids, you have the permission to go door-to-door and introduce yourself to your neighbors. If you don't have kids, many neighbors will come to you seeking sugary candy. Yet you can give them something much better, friendship. How can you bless your neighbors this Halloween?
Here are some thoughts on how you can make Halloween serve Gospel purposes of getting to know your neighbors:
- In the week before, Have a Community Pumpkin carving party at your house. You can even have all the kids judge the pumpkins and give out prizes. Have some games, snacks, and beverages available.
- Halloween is important to kids. Make sure to hand out candy. Turn some lights on so kids know you're home and so parents know you're welcoming.
- Buy some great candy and don't be stingy with it. When I was a kid, I knew who gave out the full candy bars and who gave out the grandma candy that tasted like rotten peanut butter.
- Make a big deal about the kids' costumes. Have fun and make them feel special when they come to your door.
- In many places, including Jackson this year, it's going to be pretty cold. What can you do to help freezing parents and children warm up? How about free hot Apple Cider or Hot Chocolate? In addition to free drinks, do you have a portable bonfire pit? Set it up in the front yard and invite people to sit down and warm up before they move on to the next street.
- Why just hand out Candy? Give them a little toy from a dollar or party store. Glowsticks or bracelets would be a great hit!
- Learn the names of any of the adults that come by. Ask them where they live and make a little small talk. Try to remember the names of any kids that you see playing in the neighborhood as well. Write down the names and addresses of the people you meet so you can remember them later.
- How are you going to follow-up with the people you meet? How about handing out invitations and having a Halloween after party for the Adults to have some festive adult beverages and snacks? Or, how about inviting people to a party on the following weekend?
- Create a community facebook page and hand out invitations to everyone who comes by.
- Team up with the neighbors you know. Be the really fun groups of houses so that you draw more people down your street.
- Go trick or treating with at least one other family and pick up more in your group as you walk along. It's a great opportunity to get to know mom's and dads better as you walk along.
- Decorate a little so kids think your house looks fun and inviting. Don't go overboard and get too scary or parents might not be happy and the kids might not stick around long enough to talk.
- Invite your Missional Communities to join you in handing out candy, going trick-or-treating, or anything you're doing on Halloween. You'll have a greater chance of connecting with other neighbors with a couple more people by your side.
No matter what you do this Halloween, pray that God might open doors to good conversations and friendships and that, through His Spirit, they people might see a hint of God's Kingdom and His love.
If you have any other ideas, feel free to comment below.
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Missional Training #17 – Creating Balance in Missional Communities
Within our Missional Communities, you can find a balance of three Core Values: Gospel, Community, and Mission.
The gospel is not just the ticket to salvation; it's the good news of a restored relationship with God, through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. This good news renews and transforms our hearts and lives. The Gospel is not only what gives us life when we become a Christian, but it is what sustains, grows, and matures our life and faith. The Gospel is the revelation of God's love for us, His purpose for us, and He Himself come to live and dwell in us through His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit empowers us to believe, recreates us into His Family, the Church, and enables us to live for Him.
Gospel Activity in an MC is centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ revealed through scriptures. Gospel activity includes Bible study, The Story Formed Way, praying for one another, encouraging and admonishing one another by applying the Gospel to one another's lives.
We were made to live in relationships. Everybody yearns to belong, to be part of a family. Community forms around the world through work, play, interests, geography, family, etc. The Gospel Community is a unique community because it is created by the Gospel. This kind of Community forms because of the common recognition that we're all beggars, we're all helpless before God because of sin, yet we're all loved, accepted, and useful to him because of the work of Jesus Christ. The Gospel can be seen and understood through this community as they live in confession, forgiveness, love, justice, mercy, gratitude and acceptance, as they cross lines of age, sex, wealth, and occupation. The Gospel Community can only be explained because of the Gospel, and therefore leads to an inquiry and explanation of the Gospel as we live the Christian walk in everyday life together.
Community Activity can include Shared meals, meeting new people, introducing new people to members of the MC, learning each other's stories, celebrations, various social activities, sports, etc.
The Christian community is created by the Gospel to show and the share the Gospel. No healthy Christian Community can be inward focused. Rather it is always seeking to join God's mission through transforming its community through acts of love and the proclamation of the person and work of Christ. Because the Christian community demonstrates and validates the gospel, mission shouldn't usually be a lone activity. Wherever possible we want to do mission together and introduce unbelievers to the Christian community.
Mission activity can include service projects, cleaning, fixing, building, painting structures and homes in your neighborhood. They can include, sharing the Story of God, sharing the Gospel, offering prayer, investing in and enriching the lives of others, seeking a relationship with those you don't know, inviting others into the lives of an MC and the Church.
MC Development
A healthy MC has a balance of activities shaped by these values. Yet not all MCs start this way. For example, Many Missional Communities will have a greater emphasis on Community early on. For most people, a growing relationship is necessary before they are willing to open up about their faith life, fears, doubts, and hopes . A good relational foundation usually needs to be established before they are willing to trust you enough to be vulnerable in the Gospel or take risks in Mission.
As relationships are built, and trust is earned, it is time to introduce more Gospel and Mission elements. At first, you may have simply had a prayer at the beginning of a social activity and may have demonstrated small acts of kindness and service. Over time, you'll probably add some sort of short devotional, and find some organized way to serve others in your community.
Your end goal is that you're spending equal time on Gospel, Community, and Mission oriented activities and events. You'll be going through the Story-Formed Way, the Gospel-Centred Life, or some other bible Study. You'll be discipling one another in all three types of activities, and you'll be regularly and intentionally serve in your neighborhood or community.
Remember that there is a great deal of overlap between each of these values. While everything you can do probably has a dominant GCM value at play, usually one or both of the other values are also present as well.
For more on GCM Values and Missional Communities check out the GCM Collective.


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If you find yourself traveling through our area, please give us a call. We would love to meet you. If you have never been to this part of the country, you owe it to yourself to come take a look. There are more campgrounds here than you can imagine. Lots of shows in Pigeon Forge along with Dollywood and a huge water park all waiting for you. Just down the road is Gatlinburg. Another jewel waiting to be discovered. Of course, the National Park is an experience not to be missed.Our plan is to continue to travel in our motor home and visit with as many people as we can along the way. People that RV are a unique group. Whether they have a pop-up tent camper or a 2 million dollar castle on wheels, they are almost always warm and friendly. I think the common denominator is our love of travel and the outdoors. There is something about heading out on the open road with an RV that we all feel. We can leave our worries at home and for a short time have nothing to do but enjoy life and family. So, here's hoping we have the chance to "set a spell" and visit with you. With any luck, there will be a campfire going and a good cup of coffee waiting for you. Made, of course, with the best water in the world. Water from our filtration system.
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