Tag Archives: world

The All-Star Super-Fantastic Global Dance Party

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I’m in a good mood. And by “good mood” I mean VERY good mood. (details about how big a deal this is)

And I want to celebrate my good mood. And what better way to do that than by hosting a dance party.

Right here.

Right now.

By “right here” I mean wherever you can find the time, space, and recording equipment to shake your groove thing by Monday October 4th.

And by “right now” I mean on Friday, October 8th, because I want to make sure all of you attend.

Here’s how this is going to go down.

YOUR job:

  1. get 2 sheets of paper: write your location on the 1st, your name/twitter/site or whatever on the 2nd.
  2. dance along to that 30 second clip of music, following my instructions: “show us where you’re from, show us who you are, jump jump jump, hands in the air, freestyle, wave goodbye”
  3. record your dance on a webcam or iSight or digital camera.
  4. email it to danceparty[at]mandythompson.com, using yousendit.com or box.net or whatever you want to use (file may be too big to email directly).
  5. DEADLINE = MONDAY OCTOBER 4th. MKAY??

MY job:

  1. compose some sort of dance party mix for the music video
  2. mix all your dances into a music video
  3. host the dance party video here on FRIDAY OCTOBER 8th

So, grab your camera and get your groove on by MONDAY!

Who’s gonna come to my dance party? And who’s gonna BRING FRIENDS?!

Global Food Crisis Day

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I’m hungry.

Are you?

It’s not a crisis for me. I won’t stay hungry for long. I packed a few snacks and will begin munching soon…

But a staggering number of our neighbors on this planet don’t have food. Not much at all. They live hungry.

Compassion International has declared today to be Global Food Crisis Day – a day to inform well-off people like you and me about the issues of poverty faced by a staggering number of others around the world.

Considering this day, this crisis, this need, let’s play a game that brings grains of rice to hungry people [insert wild applause here!]

We did this back in September, so let’s DO something again!!!!!

  1. START HERE to set your option @ “Remember my personal rice donation…“
  2. THEN, click HOME to play the game. You can choose different subjects or whatever. If the above option is chosen, play all day long and it will keep track for you.
  3. Then come back here and let us know your score!

Ready?

GO!

tell me something

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This weekend, I have the privilege of leading worship at our seminary’s annual women’s retreat. I can not tell you how thrilled I am over this opportunity. Why am I so excited? I found out last night that we will have 50+ women from 4 generations, 6 countries and 4 continents attending this retreat. I’m being stretched to find a variety of songs that will match the varied backgrounds of these women, but I’m having a BLAST preparing! I never thought I’d be this excited about singing “I Exalt Thee” ever again…

Living here, I’m learning more and more about global Christianity. This exposure has been the most impacting element of my time here at seminary. I’m learning about the lives and cultures and struggles of those around the world. I’m realizing that we are citizens of a much larger Kingdom… A Kingdom that reaches beyond borders and oceans and armies.

We have a responsibility to our brothers and sisters in Christ. The Bible tells us to take care of one another… But, how are we supposed to care for them if we don’t know anything about them?

Tell me something you know about the Christian church in a country outside your own. If you don’t know much, you can check one of these sites, then come back with a fact.

Voice of the Martyrs

GlobalChristianity.net

Global Prayer Digest

World Christian Database

This was written in answer to Ed’s question from”Showin’ some bloglovin’“

What did we DO?

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17

So Hey. I’ve been looking forward to this post for a few weeks! I’ve been waiting for the moment to ask for feedback – ask for you to give me a shout & tell me what this month has DOne in your life, what you’ve DOne because of it.

Here’s some of what we’ve DOne around here:

  • Over 30 of you have written posts to encourage this little blog community to DO something. I say over 30 because I’ve honestly lost count – many of you are on our “everyday DOers” list, but some of you just jumped in anyway. dang. I’m so overwhelmed!! :) “Thank you” doesn’t suffice.
  • Rice rice rice – That GAME was the MOST fun for me, and we earned a few POUNDS of rice for a family. For a few days’ worth of food. I’m not lyin’ – y’all rock.
  • Blog Action Day ’08 – How many of you signed up? I heard from a lot – let’s make sure we follow up on that! WOW!!!
  • Human Sex Trafficking – raising awareness. Plus a report from one in our community – you don’t wanna miss that discussion.
  • Parenting, Bible Study, personal growth, surrender to God, budgets, materialism, missions, poverty, adoption, friendship, teamwork, connecting to others across the world, oh my gosh the list goes on and on. We’ve discussed these things – we’ve DOne these things… Am I the only one beautifully overwhelmed by this!? wow!!!

So, tell me more – how has this discussion impacted you? Who challenged you? Who encouraged you? What are you thinking now because of this? What are you DOing?!

Thank you to EVERYBODY who participated. I’m overwhelmed. Do I keep saying that?!