Thought this parody article on Lark News was funny this month. Here’s an excerpt:

John Randall and family recently received a letter from their sponsor child in Honduras. But instead of offering an update and gratitude for their continued support, 11-year-old Maria Salvador told them she was boycotting them.

“She said it was nothing personal, but her sponsor child union wanted better terms,” says Becky Randall, 34. “She asked us to please remove her photograph from the refrigerator and cease all communication with her until the strike is resolved.”

In a new wrinkle for child sponsor ministries, sponsor children in several countries have united to demand better terms. They are asking for $45 a month, up from the standard $28, plus a 7 percent annual increase, new uniforms, better medical care and more frequent gift packages from sponsors.

JG

Thought this was an interesting/complimentary idea to The Purpose Driven Life. Here’s a clip:

Examine contents of any woman’s purse for a clue to her values, say Susan Andrews Hageman and the Rev. Allison Andrews Thompson, two young women whose current professional careers in Christian ministry and roles as wives, mothers, and daughters provide background for “The Purse Driven Life, ” a luncheon program on Oct. 1 at Marvin United Methodist Church, Tyler.

JG

Kurt has a post you have to see. I won’t say anything because I don’t want to spoil it – you will laugh out loud …

JG

I’ve been jealous of Google Maps on several iPhones lately, then recently I was just turned on to the fact that my PPC-6700 from Sprint could handle the mobile version, too. No more iPhone envy (on that count, anyway). Want to try it on your Windows Mobile device? I’m addicted to live traffic reports!

JG

Here’s a sneak peak at something we’re pushing to have ready for The Gathering this week. Around the first of October we’re hoping to have this site ready to launch – basically it is a blog on steroids for Purpose Driven Youth Ministry. Wouldn’t it be fun if we could have all 100 of the state mentors be able to post on it? We’re working on it, look for it next month …

JG

Check out Blogger’s new PLAY feature. It’s this cool page that shows pictures people are uploading to blogger in real-time. It’s super cool …

Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it. We also wrote a Blogger Play FAQ with more information.

JG