Please donate food!

Hey, we're helping the Green Springs Mission collect food for their food bank. The usually have around 100 families that rely on them for their groceries. With the economy doing so poorly, that number is increasing rapidly, but the food supply is not. Can you help out? If you would bring non-perishable food items to the shop, that would be great! We'll collect a bunch and take it to them once a week.


Bring food to 916 23rd Street south Mon - Fri between 10 -7 or Saturday between noon and 7.


Thanks!!

I need your help making a film!

With the help of Bedouins International, a local media company, we're making a film. I need your help to do it though. It's just going to be a 3 -4 minute film to be posted on the internet. I need a lot of different people to be in it. The whole film will be one short message "I am beautiful because I am made in the image of God" . This is a message that I've been telling people for years and now I want to tell even more people, so we're making a film. I'm a Christian, but you don't have to be to be a part of this film, this is a message for everyone. I want the film to be representative of everyone (hippies, yuppies, punks, goths, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, tattooed & pierced, straight looking, black, white, Asian, Hispanic,). Whoever you are, whatever you believe, this message is for you and I want you to help me tell it.

If you are interested, please let me know. We'll begin filming this Saturday afternoon.

Thanks for your help!

Do what you can with what you've got!

Attention Bloggers

As you may already know, we're working on this new project called the Luxury Fund. One way we have seen a lot of new traffic on our LF blog and website is by bloggers writing about it and linking to it from their blogs. If you're a blogger and the Luxury Fund is something that you might be interested in sharing with your readers, we'd appreciate it.

In July we raised $200, in August, we raised $660, this month, we're shooting for $750. I think we can do it! We're giving 25% each to Blood Water Mission, Compassion International, IJM and Love 146. They are all good causes and the more we can give them, the better.
Thanks for your help!!

www.luxuryfund.org
http://luxuryfund.blogspot.com

The Price of Sugar

I had no idea - www.thepriceofsugar.com

The Luxury Fund

Check out the Luxury Fund.
Here's a short video explanation of what it's about.
Let me know what you think.

Interfaith Conversation

I recently read a book called "I sold my soul on ebay". In his book, the author Hemant Mehta (the friendly atheist) said something that got me thinking. He said that Christians are often afraid to discuss matters of faith with people outside their own faith. I think that is sometimes true, but it shouldn't be. How can we relate to people of other faiths without knowing where they're coming from or why they believe what they believe. I personally believe that God created us all in His image and the He loves us ALL very much. So, for me, in an effort to be more like Jesus, I want to know people more, so that I can love them more. I can't know people very well if I haven't even had a conversation with them.

All of that to say that I'd like to start hosting conversations at the Nomad Supply Shop in Birmingham. Notice, I said "conversations" not "debates". I want to invite people of different faiths (or no faith) together to discuss their views on different topics. Topics that I have in mind are creation and the environment, war, poverty, afterlife and the human soul.

I'm not a Bible scholar. I don't have any sort of degree in religion or any "ministry credentials". I'm just a guy who loves Jesus and loves people and I want to share what I believe with people who might want to listen and share what they believe with me.

If you are interested in being a part of this conversation, please let me know.

Our first conversation will be Thursday, July 24th at 7pm.

The topic will be Creation and the Environment.

Please comment here if you think you'll be able to join us.

It will be important to know how many people might be here.