10% Discount for Mozy

October 9, 2010 in missions, Personal, Technology with Comments Off

As I’ve said before on the site I make close to $100 a month on my site directly from Mozy.com.  This is because i’m an affiliate of Mozy and as my readers and friends sign-up for the 2GB Totally Free Online Backup! Compliments of Mozy or  sign-up for other plans they give a portion of that money.  The other way I receive money is if you sign-up as an affiliate and promote Mozy on your site or blog, this way we can both get benefits.  You can become an affiliate by following one of my Mozy links and on the bottom of that page is a link for the affiliates page where you can register.

But…. why you are really here for the 10% discount for Mozy Annual and Biennial accounts in Ocotber.  Sign-up for the Home or MozyPro accounts at that link and then use the discount code “October”.

All proceeds from my webiste are used to pay for the mission trips my wife and I go on each year.  The past two years this has been to the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico.  That is the plan again for 2011 with a trip in July.

Help a teacher, no cost to you!

September 7, 2010 in family, free, Personal with Comments Off

I invite you to help my favorite kindergarten teacher who also happens to be my wife by following the simple steps at the end of this post. She is a great teacher and cares deeply for her students. She likes to keep her classroom current, homey and inviting for her students to allow them the best opportunity to receive a good education. There are 3 ways you can help out and 1 of them you can do everyday!

  1. Sonic is funding projects by teachers and allows you to vote everyday and the projects with the most votes get funded.  Go to http://limeadesforlearning.com/projects/view/431314
  2. Bing has partnered with Donorschoose and will give you a $3 donors code to use on the project of your choice when you say you’ll use the Bing search engine:  Just follow this link to let them know and get your code.
  3. The award winning movie “Waiting for Superman” is coming out in October and if you pledge to see it they will send you a $5 card to use for the classroom project of your choice. I’m asking you to use it for my wife. See it won’t cost you anything to help her out (of course you are more than welcome to make an additional donation).
  4. Pledge to see the movie “Waiting for Superman”
  5. Check your email for the Donorschoose.org credit (mine took about a day)
  6. Go to DonorsChoose.org/mrs.berg and support one of her projects
  7. Retweet, Share and Like this page
  8. THANKS, THANKS, THANKS!

Quiet Time Takeaways

August 17, 2010 in church with Comments Off

Our senior pastor, Tim Passmore, recently began tweeting and facebooking his Quiet Time takeaways each morning, or a majority of mornings anyway.  He challenged the rest of the staff about their quiet times and then our Worship associate, Andy Botts, began doing the same thing.  As a way to hold myself accountable I about to begin the same journey.  As I am about to begin to do this I challenge you to do it as well, i’ve created a page on my blog, http://bit.ly/quiettimes,  that will search twitter for the phrase “QT Takeaway” and I challenge you to start sharing what God is showing you each day and share with others as well.

Some takeaways from Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit – Day One

August 5, 2010 in church with Comments Off

Stubbornness is a virtue … if you are rightGod is calling us to go to places we’ve never been on pathways we didn’t know existedMy church, Woodland Community Church, is one of the host sites for Leadership Summit this year.  Which gives me the privilege of not only attending but being the Technical Director of the production so I get a front row seat to the whole thing. The speakers for day one: Bill Hybels, Jim Collins, Christine Caine, Tony Dungy, Andy Stanley, Adam Hamilton, and Dr. Peter Zhao Xiao.  As you can see there were some great speakers on day one and some greats bits of wisdom was shared, here’s just a glimpse of what I was able to grasp.

Bill Hybels

  • If God is transmitting to you everyday how concerned would you be with the quality of your antenna?
  • Leaders move people from here to there.
  • People oftentimes like it “here”… they don’t like the idea of going “there.”
  • “Refill their vision bucket. Everyone’s vision bucket leaks.”
  • Celebrate every mile-marker you possibly can on the way to the destination.

Jim Collins

  • Good is the enemy of Great. // What do you settle for?
  • Bad decisions made with good intensions are still bad decisions
  • If you measure your success by money, you always lose
  • here’s the link to Jim Collins’ “Good to Great” assessment tool:http://bit.ly/d9gYLY
  • Be willing to embrace loss, endure pain, but never give up the faith to prevail.
  • Do Your Diagnostics
  • Count Your Blessings, Literally, use a spreadsheet :)
  • Create an Inventory of the Brutal Facts
  • Stop Doing Something
  • Define Results and Show Clicks on the Flywheel
  • Double Your Reach to Young People by Changing Your Practices without changing your Core Values.
  • Set a Big, Hairy Audacious Goal

Christine Caine

  • From trafficked girl: If your God is real and loving, why wouldn’t your God come sooner?
  • God is calling us to go to places we’ve never been on pathways we didn’t know existed
  • Check out http://bit.ly/clZwli to learn more about the A21 Campaign and @ChristineCaine‘s work for anti-human trafficking

Tony Dungy with Craig Groeshel

  • Stubbornness is a virtue … if you are right
  • Don’t mistake hours for productivity
  • The informal part of the mentoring is much more important than the “scheduled” times
  • esus Christ is the BEST mentor or leader that i’ve been involved with

Adam Hamilton

  • Don’t let the devil ride because he’s going to want to drive.

Dr. Peter Zhao Xiao

  • If China can only produce TV sets but not TV programs they will be unable to impact culture.
  • There are now over 130 million Christians in China.

Andy Stanley

  • Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.
  • Every single healthy church should have the tension of calling seekers and teaching believers. We must be comfortable living with this tension.

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