First, we actually use the word pilgrimage for our trips. But I digress! I’ve learned many lessons the past two years of taking teams to Africa and Haiti. Truthfully, every trip we’ve taken has been great. God has been good to us and much fruit has come from these trips! Here’s the MOST IMPORTANT lesson [...]

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I just started reading Leadership Is Dead: How Influence Is Reviving It by Jeremie Kubicek. This book was recommended by my good friend Brandon Hatmaker. He also has a review on his blog. Some quotes to ponder: “True empowering leadership can be revived if we are willing to embrace a few core concepts: • We [...]

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Jonathan Dodson is a church planter, up-and-coming theologian and board member for HELP. I love Jonathan’s heart for the gospel, local church and theology! He is a rare breed, one who understands praxis, (his church is on 6th in Austin) but also he embraces a hardcore pursuit of theology. Last year, Jonathan sent me a [...]

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I’ve spent the last few weeks desperately trying to empower other people to help serve and lead HELP. Leadership is so vital. We need many people taking ownership of various initiatives so we can push ahead and build an organization that will honor God and build a tribe that rescues and restore orphans. I spent [...]

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What are you waiting for…? I think we all have a dream in our hearts, something that keeps us up at night. A never-ending passion to do something remarkable with our lives, something that will make the world better, because of our dreams and passions. So what are you waiting for? Why won’t you move [...]

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My following strengths according to Strength Finders: 1. Futurist. (I hate this, hard to focus on the present when you are thinking about the future) 2. Activator. (Start things-always!!!) 3. Belief (Prophetic, passionate, not giving-in, for me its church planting and poverty) 4. Command (this is why people hate me-kidding of course 5. Input (I [...]

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Yesterday at The Stone Halim spoke on the issue of women’s role in the church. He tried to hammer home the value of a man serving the women like Christ serves the Church. Halim challenged every man to become a theologian. To know Scripture it vital as we try to lead. Yet, the truth is [...]

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When I started HELP over a year ago, I had many ideas I wanted to implement, actually to many! However, these past 5 months I’ve been able to focus my full energies on launching this non-profit. It feels good. Yet, I can tell you I would do so many things differently if I could. Such [...]

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There is no doubt we all have dreams. Yet, for many those dreams seem untouchable or hard to capture in the real world. John Maxwell strives to help us connect the dots with a practical book that can be a huge benefit to all of us “dreamers.” Now to be fair, I used to be [...]

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In 2004 some friends and I sat in a cafe in Wilmington, NC. We dreamed up this thing called HELP. Back then, there was not a lot of buzz from the church in-regards to the social issues facing our world. Of course that has changed, now there are some amazing non-profits who are doing great [...]

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