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Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church (by...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:53:22 -0400

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church

(by andrewflavin)

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church (by...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:52:34 -0400

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church

(by andrewflavin)

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church (by...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:52:15 -0400

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church

(by andrewflavin)

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church (by...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:50:16 -0400

Photos from Tijuana with New Providence Presbyterian Church

(by andrewflavin)

davidcho: Obligatory bean picture #1: Sent via BlackBerry by...

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:45:54 -0400

davidcho:

Obligatory bean picture #1:

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Nice touch wearing your Air Yeezys to Chi-town. Well played.

krispayne: “Stockholm Syndrome” - Blink 182 I’m kind of...

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:52:06 -0400

krispayne:

“Stockholm Syndrome” - Blink 182

I’m kind of anticipating the new Blink 182 album. And by kind of I mean I check weekly for a release date.

I am really pumped for this too. That self titled album was SO GOOD.

Arizona

Sun, 30 May 2010 15:35:38 -0400

Jon Wilson and I are on our way out to the San Carlos Apache Reservation outside of Globe, AZ to help a group work on houses for five families this week. Amor has just started building (different, bigger, more involved) houses out here so it will be awesome to help this site get going. My dad is bringing the PCNP kids out here in July too!

I’m following Jon who is pulling our trailer that we will sleep in and so far I have had to dodge a vent cover, a tail light, and the spare tire cover that have all flown off the trailer. So hopefully we make it…

I’ll be posting pictures from San Carlos all this week!

ATMs a mystery to senator

Thu, 20 May 2010 18:23:36 -0400

ATMs a mystery to senator:

oats:

mattlehrer:

“I’ve never used an ATM, so I don’t know what the fees are,” [Senator Ben] Nelson [D-NE] said, adding that he gets his cash from bank tellers, just not automatic ones. “It’s true, I don’t know how to use one.

“But I could learn how to do it just like I’ve … I swipe to get my own gas, buy groceries. I know about the holograms.”

By “holograms,” Nelson clarified that he meant the bar codes on products read by automatic scanners in the checkout lanes at stores such as Lowe’s and Menard’s.

“I go and get my own seating assignment on an airplane,” Nelson said. “I mean, I’m not without some skills. I just haven’t had the need to use an ATM.”

Really?!?!

I've been sucked into the blogosphere.

Wed, 19 May 2010 12:53:00 -0400

lifeonislandtime:

June 2nd will be the first day of my 11th summer at Tapawingo. Wow. It’s always been hard to explain to people exactly what day-to-day life is like at Tap, so in honor of spending over a decade on the island, I’ve decided it’s finally time to start to write about it. To be honest, I’ve always been skeptical about having a blog of any sort (no offense Andrew), but let’s face it- little girls at camp say and do hilarious things. And spending an entire summer on an island in the middle of the Adirondacks makes the staff say and do hilarious things too…My hope, though, is that you will not only be encouraged by the crazy things that Tap girls do, but also by what the Lord is doing in the hearts of all the girls we minister to this summer. God has set this little island apart for His work and it is a privilege to be a part of it every summer. I pray that you will be able to experience just a little part of that with me as you get a glimpse into what it’s like to be a Tap girl…

My sister finally started a blog! Follow her as she spends a summer on an island in Nowheresville-Upstate-New-York hiking, swimming, camping, waterskiing, causing a rukus, etc with a bunch of crazy girls.

This photo is incredible. via frontpages

Mon, 17 May 2010 11:46:30 -0400

This photo is incredible.

via frontpages

"Our imitation of God in this life … must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus,..."

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:12:07 -0400

“Our imitation of God in this life … must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the Divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the Divine life operating under human conditions.”

- C.S. Lewis (via azspot)

This is cruel and awful and unnecessary. But I did mute the...

Tue, 11 May 2010 12:44:44 -0400

This is cruel and awful and unnecessary. But I did mute the audio and provide a voice-over for the cat cursing and pleading with God to make it stop.

mattlehrer: totes: claytoncubitt: Alex Webb, people playing...

Tue, 11 May 2010 11:38:52 -0400

mattlehrer:

totes:

claytoncubitt:

Alex Webb, people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net, 1979

Well...?

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:57:22 -0400

theflavins:

The week of April 1-8 saw 1,523 people come through camp and 85 houses be built all over Tijuana and Tecate. It was so exciting to see camp buzzing and full of people, vans, energy, and love. Joanna and I visited camp exactly one year ago and it was almost empty, abandoned by people afraid of cartel violence or swine flu or whatever other ‘scary’ Mexican thing you can think of. And the amount of people in camp wasn’t exciting because it meant Amor as an organization is doing better or because it means we are closer to meeting the budget; more families now have homes.

Four month old, Juan Pablo, has a cement floor to crawl on instead of a dirt one.

Virginia, an elderly widow who was half blind, jobless, and 300 miles from her closest relative, can now sleep soundly behind the safety of a locked door instead of on a sheet of plywood under a tarp. (She also has some pretty jury-rigged electricity thanks to her convincing petition that I help her run electricity into her new home. Breaking my number one rule: “Do NOT touch Mexican electricity in any form. EVER.”, I ever so carefully spliced her frayed wires carrying God knows how much ‘luz’ (read: light (or in this case, death)) and installed a little outlet into which she was able to plug a single light bulb and her clock radio.)

Alicia and her husband will get the privacy and comfort they deserve now that they don’t have to live with their two grown children in a single 15x15 ft room.

All 11 members of the Perez family will finally be together in their single and double houses. They both sold their land to buy new land next door to each other so the cousins can all grow up together. One big happy family.

Leslie, a single mother who is exactly my age, got to throw her little son, Fofo, a party for his 4th birthday in their new house; she bought him a cake with an airplane on it and cooked menudo pozolefor everyone, as Fofo played with the action figures and matchbox cars the group had given him - the first of many birthdays in his and his mom’s new home.

All of this was possible because people, mainly kids during their spring breaks, put their money where their mouth is. They lived in a tent, worked manual labor for 4 days straight, showered by dumping a 5 gallon bucket of cold water on their heads, and came to Mexico when their friends/local news channel/parents were all telling them how dangerous it was. They did what their faith and their God says they should do.

They are putting roofs over people’s heads - not because it is easy or popular or safe - but because that is what they are called to do. God’s call to love and serve the poor doesn’t end when doing so puts your life on the line; I would argue that it is there that his call starts.

God says “I will protect you” - not from falling stock prices, not from downsizing, not from acne, not from embarrassment, not from uncomfort. He will protect you from evil, he will protect you from the Valley of the Shadow of Death, he will protect you when you leave your job/income/security system/nice cars/401k/septic system/WiFi/full refridgerator/$20,000 limit credit card/diploma/family/cell phone if just for one week to follow him into the desert. God says he will protect you because he knows that he is sending you to places where you will need protection.

These kids who have been coming down on trips are coming by the thousands into a place where the rest of the world is afraid to go. Why would they be walking towards Tijuana when the rest of the world is running away? They actually believe that God does what he promises to do. They know that God has tangible, real power and have decided to live their lives accordingly. I have always liked the phrase “Actions define.” They don’t define your value as a person, rather they define what you value. You can sing all you want about God’s “might” and “power” and “strength” but if you fold because of what the TV says about Mexico, that paints a clear picture to the world of what you really think God can do.

Everyone talks a huge game about God being powerful enough to create the universe or conquer death but when it comes time for him to protect us in Tijuana….uhhh…can he do that??

How dare we believe in the cartel’s ability to kill more than we believe in God’s ability to protect?

I wrote this on our other blog a couple of weeks ago and thought I would share. Just some thoughts…

Formula Drift at Grand Prix of Long Beach 2010 I saw all of this...

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:25:01 -0400

Formula Drift at Grand Prix of Long Beach 2010

I saw all of this LIVE and it was UNREAL.

(via wrecked)

www.wtf.org !!!!!1

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:49:44 -0500

www.wtf.org !!!!!1:

I can’t stop reading about all of the WTF things..

"The third most powerful sound is just over 10 years old, and yet it had such a profound effect on..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:29:18 -0500

“The third most powerful sound is just over 10 years old, and yet it had such a profound effect on our volunteers that as soon as they hear it, they remove their headsets and check their bags for their vibrating cell phone. When we switch our phone into silent mode, we think it cannot be heard. But the vibration has its own sound, and almost immediately the test subjects stopped whatever they were doing to attend to their phones. It’s hardly surprising that the Blackberry has been dubbed a CrackBerry—even President Obama is hooked.”

- The 10 Most Addictive Sounds in the World | Fast Company (via burstcollective)

Your pet’s nightmare on wheels

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:25:04 -0500

Your pet’s nightmare on wheels

katieschenk: rickankielsmustache: This is how a city should...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:36:00 -0500

katieschenk:

rickankielsmustache:

This is how a city should celebrate. Everyone else should be taking notes.

via Deadspin

rickyv: I wonder if we call it a BLT because we’d feel bad asking for a “bacon sandwich.”

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:39:35 -0500

rickyv:

I wonder if we call it a BLT because we’d feel bad asking for a “bacon sandwich.”