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kevin durant: being present

November 1, 2011 in adventure, leadership with 1 Comment

the tweet that started it...

mark riddle  shared this video today on his facebook profile.   a dude named george overbey is following fourth year NBA star, currently playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder kevin durant  on twitter.

kevin durrant posts that he’s bored and wants something to do. and george tweets back and invite kevin to play.  with more than a million followers on twitter a single conversation begins

the series of tweets that followed from george to durant.

and so its on…kevin drives about an hour and plays some flag football with some students. craziness!  but  so cool.  it was a risk for sure.  and from the video it got crazy.  so grateful that a dude with durant’s celebrity status would risk  to be inconvenienced and hassled to play a game with some ordinary students.  i see the message of being present all over this.  so the question today…are you willing to let your daily routine be “inconvenienced” to make a difference?

Stephen Hosmer: A True San Diego Hero!

October 28, 2011 in adventure, thoughts, travel with 0 Comments

Stephen Hosmer

yep…another story. here’s some video from an interview that Present:Hope Tour team-mate Stephen Hosmer did with KUSI-TV in San Diego.  Steve has an amazing heart and is an AVID cyclist. He rides a minimum of 2,500 miles a year. Personally he was (and still is!) an INCREDIBLE encourager to those of us on the team who were novices to cycling.

Steve is the Co-CEO of Royale Energy, Inc.  who also was a major underwriter of the Present:Hope Tour.  Steve has an amazing wit (note the picture on the trike) and a servant’s heart.  Every morning on the tour he worked quickly and almost anonymously to assure that each team member’s bike was properly lubricated and had correct tire pressure.  So cool to see his home town of San Diego recognize his accomplishment. So cool too that the story of our 803 mile ride is still offering momentum to the efforts of Venture Expeditions and Convoy of Hope.

Mark Zimmerman at WCRF – Final Present:Hope Tour Chat

October 25, 2011 in adventure, thoughts, travel with 0 Comments

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mark zimmerman and benny

i realized that i hadn’t posted the final conversation i had with my Kingdom ally Mark Zimmerman at WCRF radio 103.3 FM Cleveland.  Mark and I spoke early on Thursday morning as we arrived at the Gwinett Center in northwest Atlanta for the first session of the Catalyst 2011  Conference.  Mark has been a huge encouragement over the years, but especially on this last crazy adventure.

Mark can savor some of the effort the Present:Hope Tour team accomplished as he stepped off back in July to run (& hike) the BT50k @Cuyahoga Valley National Park. He finished the 31.2mi. race, got the tech shirt, the medal, & the car sticker and the”trophy”….a new truck for Love & Hope Children’s Home in El Salvador.  You can read about Mark’s effort here.

I’m hoping that in the coming months i’ll be able to make a return to trip to joplin and tuscaloosa to see how our effort through Convoy of Hope has been leveraged in the rebuilding.

over the past week ABC TV’s Extreme Home Makeover has been on site at 7 homes in joplin offering encouragement by rebuilding.

Pastor Aaron Brown said in an email on Monday:

The Extreme Home Makeover people have flooded the city and the excitement is off the chart.  It’s amazing to see these 7 houses going up.  At the same time the reality is that we have thousands more homes to rebuild.  THOUSANDS!  Joplin is crazy with hope and life.

the kids from the orphanage sit on the truck that Mark's fundraising efforts helped obtain. Mark raised over $10,000.

Like this photo that Mark got from his friends in El Salvador… i’m looking forward to seeing what ABC has done and to hear some stories about how encouraging it is to the process.  Excited that several of the Present:Hope Tour team members, Jay Perske and Brad Godwin and their spouses have been able to be on site and volunteer.

By the way, the effort is still underway to raise monies through the Present:Hope Tour. Todate more than $60,000 has been donated. Our goal is $100,000. You can click on the donate button to the left or text the word PRESENT to 50555

getting back on the bike

October 23, 2011 in adventure, thoughts with 0 Comments

its been almost 2 weeks since returning from the Present:Hope Tour and some  803 miles riding from Joplin, MO to Atlanta.  Yesterday I was able to get out for a 26 mile ride. it felt good…but odd.  the sense of the community that developed from the shared mission with the 12 other riders was noticeably absent.  the voices up front warning of a road grate or gravel…or the voices behind making you aware of a “car back”.  life moves on. i did enjoy bumping into a student i hadn’t seen all summer.  Robbie went with the team on Mission:Alabama in June.  nice to get caught up with him.

Michael Flatery: Bring the DodgeBalls

October 20, 2011 in adventure, student ministry, thoughts with 0 Comments

dang…somehow i missed this video before the middle school ministry campference with Michael Flaherty. cause i’ll admint if i had i would probably had played hooky from the outpost on sunday.  i heard the conversation was great and its clear walden media is doing really good Kingdom stuff( they produced the Narnia films). I love his comment early on about how he got funding from Philip Anschutz…because free markets are directly related to securing and maintaining religious freedom and that one can do well while doing good. i’m disappointed to  not have brought some dodgeball game time on with michael.  would have been fun.  grateful that michael made the investment in being present at the campference.  according to marko he came on his own nickel.  that’s great stuff.

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