This is my city. Mattoon. Population 18,291.  Just some facts. Site of the Mad Gasser attacks in the 1940s. Local settlers marked out the plots for sale with pegs, and the village was originally known as “Pegtown.”\ In 1861, the town was officially named after William B. Mattoon, the chief construction engineer working for the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad. [...]

You can watch full-length version of the newest Rob Bell’s Nooma titled Tomato until November 13, 2008 at noon, EST Facebook Neue Ministry Dust is my favorite Nooma so far. What is yours?

Last week we showed this video at First Assembly of Tony Campolo talking about him throwing a birthday party for a prostitute at a diner at 3am in Honolulu. {embedded video}

Ok. This might be old news. But I just saw this clip tonight. {video embedded}

Last night was monumental. No doubt. The United States of America elected Barack Obama as their next president. Regardless of who you or I voted for. It will be a night that will be remembered. Katie and I worked on our house for a couple hours tonight and then ran home about 9pm to watch the results.   Some other [...]

Our 1st – 12th grades are joining together for a cause at First Assembly. That cause is clean water and clean blood. Millions of Africans lack clean water. Millions of Africans lack clean blood. HIV infected. 26 million to be exact. For the month of November we are focusing on collecting money and giving our own money so that others [...]

Last night was my first public show in Mattoon since moving here. We had a ton of people come out. 113 paid. Everything went well. Lots of people were bummed though, because Bradley did zero poems and 45 minutes of songs.  Besides doing just the normal grassroots promotion I placed ads online for the first time. Here was the results [...]

Go on into Starbucks on Nov. 4th, tell them you voted, and they will give you a tall cup of brewed coffee on them.