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Easiest Form Builder!

Guy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:07:53 +0000

Do you need forms on your website? Yesterday I had my first ever appointment with a apple genius (the guy that knows everything about a mac.) I told him about my need for forms and he told me about jotform.com. It is amazing! What was going to cost thousands, I can know do for free.

Here is a 2 minute video so you can learn more:

JotForm in two minutes from Interlogy Internet Technologies on Vimeo.

I hope to show you Jot Form in action soon.

Steve Jobs on Marketing

Guy — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:59:07 +0000

My controversial video on facebook

Guy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:20:17 +0000

Here is the response. this was in less than 24 hours.

I kinda feel like people didn’t understand the heart in which the video was made. Everything we do is to reach the lost. I guess It would have been good to put that in the video.

If the video isn’t working you may have to view it on facebook

The Bible and Cell Phones

Guy — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:58:33 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t write this…

It was one of those forwarded spam emails from a friend. Normally I click delete, but I thought this one was good.

Here it comes:

“What Would Happen if We treated our Bible like we Treat our Cell Phones?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several times a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn’t live without it?

What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you go….hmm…where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing.

Unlike our cell phone, we don’t have to worry about our Bible being
disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

Makes you stop and think ‘where are my priorities? And no dropped calls!

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!”

This was one of those chain e-mail I received. Since I never send spam emails I thought I would post it here on my blog.

The great thing is our culture is shifting toward this mindset.

Tots in Heaven?

Guy — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:34:02 +0000

Have you heard of BlueFish.tv? They create videos that promote discussion for small groups and churches. They cost around $3.99 per video. I searched YouTube and found this one. It is funny so I thought I would share.

Social Media Thoughts Spring 2010

Guy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:27:24 +0000

Here are a few of my thoughts on Social Media:

I’m different than most when it comes to Social media
•    I update once a day
•    I talk about hunting
•    I use several different sites rather than focus on one {Facebook twitter youtube (in that order)}
•    Goal to connect with few rather than many
•    I study it almost everyday

o E-Myth quote “The Challenge of our age is to learn our customer’s language.” Pg 227

Things that help
• My phone (I can do everything from it)

o    Video to youtube
o    Twit pic
o    FB
o    Google search/ web
o    Take record send video & picture

• CoTweet to run multiple accounts. (thanks to Jim Gray for teaching me about this)
• Evernote to save/organize my thoughts and my notes.

Most difficult for me
• Manage and set others expectations. I am sporadic by nature.

Social Media helps:

Get to know leaders better. Where else could see how leaders live their live (even their marriage health.) It is great way to lead by example. Caution to not be fake.

Do you have thoughts on Social Media?

1 Twitter Use for Pastors

Guy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:28:03 +0000

Social Media Feedback Source

How Billy Hornsby uses twitter:

Social media gives him a chance to receive feedback almost instantly. It is especially helpful while traveling since he has to leave quickly after speaking or after long speaking engagements like church planter’s roundtables when he will have up to 8 sessions in one day.

After speaking he logs on to a popular social media site called, twitter, where he will check what people are telling their followers.

He finds quotes like this:

“I can use twitter to find which examples are getting my point across. They tell me what they like,” Billy says while we were walking through the Ronald Reagan International Airport.

Often pastors wonder what people are saying about the church when they leave. Social media gives them a chance to

Quick Tip: Use social media as a tool. Don’t get consumed.

This hasn’t been a good thing for some church leaders as not all conversations are helpful. Unhappy church members start gossip or leave and use social media as an easy way to cut down the church. Some get bolder behind the keyboard saying things they never would face to face. Getting caught up in gossip is never helpful.

Click here to learn how to search twitter <– really helpful. Learned a few things I didn’t know.

Like how to search emotions

*Sidenote: If you are Mark Batterson, everything you tweet gets retweeted (41 times the Friday i checked.) Thats right 41 RT’s in one day.

United States Gross National Happiness via Facebook

Guy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:00:09 +0000

Have you heard of Gross National Happiness (GNH)?

Facebook created an app to see when people are happiest. It looks at the words you use for status updates.

SURPRISE, people are happy on Friday and sad on Monday.

Read more on Facebook or wiki. (I know a few pastors are going to use this as a sermon illustration.)

Unspiritual Gifts

Guy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:04:02 +0000

Do you have an unspiritual gift? What is it?

Pray for Haiti

Guy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:28:30 +0000

This seemed important enough to blog about even on my month of just not blogging.

If you don’t know what is happening in Haiti just go to twitter and search “Haiti.”

To really get a picture search “Haiti twitpic” {Warning some images will be disturbing}

Here’s are 3 things you can do to help:

1. Join Churches Across the World on Monday Night in Prayer For Haiti - Together with Pastor Stovall Weems and Awakening (http://awake21.org) we are making a call for churches everywhere to pray this Monday night for Haiti. We encourage you to invite your church to pray. Open the doors of your church and ask your people to come and pray specifically for Haiti.

At Healing Place Church this Monday, January 18 at 7:00 p.m. CST, we’ll host an evening of special prayer for Haiti at our Highland Campus in Baton Rouge, LA. We’ll also stream this event live online at http://healingplacechurch.org/hpclive. We encourage you to help spread the word and join in from wherever you are.

If you’re on twitter, please use the hashtag #pray4Haiti to help spread the word.

2. Engage the Immediate Needs by Giving – There are two main ways you can give to help the relief effort in Haiti.

Give financially.

You can give online at http://healingplacechurch.org/haiti or by giving directly to our partners, Samaritan’s Purse (http://samaritanspurse.org) and Joyce Meyer Ministries (http://joycemeyer.org).

Give relief supplies.

If you’re in the Baton Rouge area, you can bring relief supplies (listed below) to:

Healing Place Church Highland Campus

19202 Highland Road in Baton Rouge.

Items will be collected now through Monday, January 18

6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

For those outside the Baton Rouge area, you can send mail your donated items to:

Love A Child

Attn: Mike Essman- Haiti Earthquake Medical Donation

9304 Camden Field Parkway

Riverview, FL 33578-0520

We are blessed to have tremendous relationships with ministries that have a long history on the ground in Haiti as well as a wealth of experience in large-scale crisis response. It is through these partnerships that we are able to engage the need in Haiti. Serving together with these ministries in our own experiences of natural disasters and tragedies, we have learned to value their integrity and wisdom very much in these situations. That gives us great confidence that you can trust that what you give will be stewarded well to help the people of Haiti.

3. Prepare for Future Recovery and Rebuilding – These problems Haiti is facing will not go away in just a couple weeks, so we are committed to serving Haiti long-term. We are already beginning to adjust our missions plans for 2010; working in plans to send teams to Haiti to help with the recovery effort. The immediate emergency situation in Haiti doesn’t present an opportunity for us to put teams on the ground to serve. But in 60-90 days, there will be tremendous opportunity for teams to serve in Haiti. Please begin praying, and if you feel it is something God wants you to do, begin preparing to serve on a missions team in Haiti sometime in the next few months. Here’s a look at some of projects we intend to send teams for:

Construction and clean-up

Children’s ministry

Pastoral counseling

Medical care

Cooking and feeding

We have some great relationships with people who have friends and connections on the ground in Haiti. We will be connecting with them in planning our missions trips. Pastors, we want to encourage you to do the same as you plan your own missions trips in these coming months. For example, we’ll be connecting with Celebrate Jesus Haiti a group that cares for 600-1,000 orphans each day. This church is led by the mother of our friend Bill Scheer, pastor of Guts Church in Tulsa, OK (http://gutschurch.com).

It is moments like these that the body of Christ must work together to engage the need. What better way to communicate the love of our Savior than to respond with hope when people are hurting? And together, we can make a huge difference in this tragic situation.

Thank you for caring, and for putting that care into action. If you would like further information, please feel free to contact Mike Haman at mailto:mike.haman@healingplacechurch.org or 225-753-2273.

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LIST OF ITEMS NEEDED

IMPORTANT: If you’re sending large quantities of supplies, they need to be palletized and shrink-wrapped for shipping, with an inventory of items included. Personal donations of smaller quantities can be dropped off in person or mailed directly to Love A Child.

Medications:

(These items can be purchased over the counter at any local drug store)

Aspirin

Tylenol

Motrin

Children’s and adult multi-vitamin

Benadryl

Neosporin or triple antibiotic

Oral re-hydration salts

Cough medications

Medical Supplies:

(These items can be purchased over the counter at any local drug store)

Ace bandages

Alcohol pads

Band-aids

Betadine wipes and sticks

Drapes

Gauzes – any size

Gloves – all sizes, sterile/non-sterile

Gowns –surgical and patient (head and shoe covers, goggles, masks)

Pediatric supplies

Tape – all types

Thermometers

Other:

(These items can be purchased through a doctor or physicians’ office)

Zantac

Hypertension medications

Blood pressure medications

Blades – sterile only

Needles – butterfly, angio catheter

Compression stockings

Dressings – sterile and un-sterile (Coban, Tegaderm, Steri-Strip, Surgilast)

IV supplies – tubing in sterile packages only

Scalpels

Sponges – surgical only (includes X-ray detectable)

Surgical towels – cloth/paper

Sutures

Syringes

Tongue depressors