When we hear the word orphan, we think of a small village in Kenya, but there are 1/2 million orphans in foster care in America. Sunday, November 7 is Orphan Sunday. This event is developed by The Christian Alliance of Orphans to make churches and christian aware of the orphan need. How can your church get involved. Host an event. [...]

The Fields Church is in the middle of a transformation partnership with the town of San Jeronimo, Honduras, called The 1814 Project. You can read all about it here. As part of the partnership, I’m leading a team of 10 to the town this June 11-18, 2010. There is a small village outside of San Jeronimo called Ireland. 300 men, [...]

When the big weekend is over; remember to thank your team. They are the ones that take my crazy ideas my head and turn them into reality. Before Easter was even here, the staff started coming up with a list of those that we needed we needed to thank after the weekend. We shot out hand written thank you cards [...]

Victoria Greer from The Fields Church took initiative to start up a free clothing drive to help others in the community, called Fashion Forward with the help of her friend Jodi Koester. This wasn’t something the church came up with. It isn’t a program we are doing. It’s not something we organized. It was her. Being the church in her [...]

Every notice why you keep seeing the same people over and over in your News Feed. I’ve got over a 1000 friends, and it seems like all I see are the same people 100 in my feed. By default Facebook sets your News Feed to only show 250 friends, you have to manually change it to see more. Here’s how. [...]

A team from The Fields Church is in Honduras this week. It is a continueing relationship we have with a community there, called San Jeronimo; called The 1814 Project. The team has been restoring the bathrooms at their elementary school. Fixing toilets, getting them operational again. Repairing the bathroom roof. Fixing playground equipment. Also, we are helping one of their [...]

Get your camera and get out there. Help others. Be hope. More about Help Portrait {watch video here} I’m not a photographer, but I’m willing to edit. Anyone in the Mattoon-Charleston area, want to get together and do this together?

Today was our last day in San Jeronimo. We spent the day in the elementary school, doing book of hope distribution, building soccer goals and painting desk. Then in the evening we showed the Honduras/El Salvador soccer game on a projector screen in a park, were over 500 showed up.

Tonight we are opening our house to others, and are streaming Dave Ramsey’s Town Hall for Hope. Who is Dave Ramsey? Dave Ramsey is a personal money-management expert, an extremely popular national radio personality and best-selling author of The Total Money Makeover. In his latest book, a follow-up of his enormously successful New York Timesbest-sellers Financial Peaceand More Than Enough, [...]