Tim Tebow called the pastor of Celebration Church in Georgetown, Texas, asking if he could speak at their Easter Service. The church rented 120 school buses and rounded up 1200 volunteers.  The New York Times has a good article about their Easter service.

Tim let “the audience know that it’s important to be outspoken about their faith [and implored] athletes to be better role models.” (from LA Times).

Some Easter Service attendees arrived Saturday night, tailgating at an outlet mall down the street. “That’s a good service, when you have tailgaters,” the pastor said.

We’ve been Tim Tebow fans ever since we watched him play for the University of Florida Gators when our two sons attended there.  We have more articles about Tim on our site.

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If you’re running across some blacked-out sites today, it’s part of a protest against proposed U.S. legislation.

This CBS News article seemed to have the most balanced approach to the controversy:

• SOPA, PIPA: What you need to know

Which internet sites are “blacked out” and which are not:

• Internet Blackout: 7000 Sites Join Wikipedia
• From Reuters: Internet blackout against SOPA fails to enlist big sites

Could these proposed bills affect our ministry websites or online ministry?  Thanks for helping us understand the debate.

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As part of Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Zach Hunter and Compassion International are hosting a Twitter chat about human trafficking. If you have questions about human trafficking, use #HumanTrafficking from 9-10 EST (New York City time) on January 11, 2012.

I learned about today’s efforts from one of our staff family’s teens.  To support awareness, she’ll be wearing  the same dress every day for a year, starting today, Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

Bethany explains:

One reason is because it’ll give me a chance to experience waking up to the same reality day after day. But this is one I’m choosing. For countless others, it’s a choice that someone else made for them.

NOTES:

• For National Human Trafficking Awareness Day:
  • Not for Sale website
  • Facebook Page
  • Twitter
• Follow Bethany’s  year journey on her blog: One Dress.  One Year.  (Fund-raising information here.)
• A report from the International Justice Mission on some of their successes for 2011 and planned campaigns for 2012.

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“God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.” ~ John 3:16 CEV

Mike is a long-time Pittsburgh Steelers fan.  The Schmitts are also University of Florida Gators fans; we especially enjoyed watching the football games when Tim Tebow was the quarterback.  Josh saw every game in “The Swamp” his last year at UF.  (Also Tim’s last year.)

Many of you know the Steelers lost to the Broncos Sunday 29 to 23 in “the fastest overtime win in NFL history”.  You may not know that the statistics from that game have caused an eruption of sorts on the internet. (See first point in “notes” below.)  Here’s some of the numbers:

• Tim had 316 total passing yards
• Tim averaged 31.6 yards per pass
• and the final quarter-hour TV rating for the game was 31.6, “the highest-rated wild card game for CBS in 24 years” (see point one in “notes”)

Millions of fans searched the internet for John 3:16 after learning  of Tim’s unus...

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Seven billion!  Wow!  That number is hard to grasp.  This  fantastic video from National Geographic illustrates the size of that number and also shares statistics, such as urban growth.

You might also be interested in:

• The Joshua Project which researches unreached people groups
• Global Prayer Digest, a daily prayer guide for unreached people groups from the U. S. Center for World Mission
• Real stories of people coming to the Lord through  the “JESUS” film.

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