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everyone needs to be reading this
Who are Millennials?
Millennials were born between 1980 and 2000. They have been called the “Bridger Generation,” the “Generation Y” and others labels, but now most “studiers” have agreed to call this generation “Millennials.”
The sheer size of the Millennial Generation is staggering. Between 1980 and 2000, nearly 78 million live births took place. Compare that with the Boomer Generation, which nearly had 76 million live births from 1946 to 1964. Like the Boomers, the Millennials are just too big to ignore.
First, they are a hopeful generation. 96% of Millennials indicated they can do something great. A generation of optimists, for sure! Are Millennials naïve and disconnected? Nothing could be farther from the truth. Millennials, are realists who know that all is not well in the world. But, they believe they can have a role in changing it and making a difference with their lives.
Second, they are a relational generation. Perhaps this is why social networks like Twitter and Facebook are thriving in our culture. Millennials want to communicate and connect with others, there is no doubt about it. Relationships at work and with friends are valued highly, but so also are family relationships. 9 out of 10 Millennials said their parents had a positive influence on them.
Third, they are a generation of learners. There are reasons why Millennials are receiving undergraduate degrees at a rate that surpasses all previous generations. Two main reasons why they frenetically pursue education: parents and pragmatics. Millennials listen to their parents’ advice, especially regarding education. But Millennials also desire to get ahead, and one factor that separates them from each other in the work force is education.
Fourth, they are a less religious generation. Only 13 percent of the Millennials say spirituality of any type is important to them. One out of ten. Most Millennials don’t even think about religious matters at all. This generation is not antagonistic toward religion, especially Christianity, but rather agnostic toward all aspects of religion.
This book by Thom & Jess Rainer is a great source of information about Millennials.
We need to learn all we can about them…….
They are our world.
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take me out to the ballgame
I love baseball! Especially college baseball and we are entering the time of the year when we have the regionals, then the super regionals then the College World Series tournament. Fun times.
I also am a math Geek. Yes I was a math major in college until my senior year of college when I switched to a Computer Science degree (still a Geek). When I saw this video, it helped me understand a little bit more how come I like baseball so much:
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outwit…outplay…outlast
It took four trips and 117 days of playing “Survivor,” but “Boston Rob” finally outplayed, outwitted and outlasted everyone, and in the show that aired Sunday night, he was crowned the winner of “Survivor: Redemption Island.”
I love Survivor, and am a huge 
“Boston Rob” fan, so it was a very good ending for me. Survivor speaks volumes about how groups of people build community with each other, and selectively isolate others. It is an up close and personal look at how important relationships are in our lives.
I thought every week Rob brought his “A game”. Some weeks it was “outwit”, some weeks it was “outplay” and at the end it was “outlast” for Rob. In a brilliant strategic move, he pulled off sending Matt back to Redemption Island, helping make him the ultimate sole survivor.
Jeff Probst, host of the show, said Rob played as close to a perfect game as anyone in the entire 22 seasons of the series, a supreme compliment.
I know he probably won’t be back, so he’ll be missed by Survivor fans everywhere, and he has raised the bar to an all time new height.
Unique visitors to post: 4it’s in the clouds
It sounds great, print to any printer, anywhere, if you’ve been attached before. There are a few steps you have to take, but like a good techno-nerd I was able to follow the directions and do the needed setup. Then you have the “print test page” test. Yea! I hear the printer. Yes, it printed. What printed? This printed:
Now I’m ready. Complete some work late at night, then print it on the better printer in the office. FAIL! What? I’m ready, but the cloud isn’t ready to support me yet. Wait, there is a Chrome plug-in that can fix this. Installed. Oops, still no support for what I need.
Cloud printing works great from smart phones, but not from laptops or desktops, at least for now. Support is coming, as soon as developers build “cloud printer drivers” for different software packages, like Microsoft office. So, let the waiting begin.
I can print great test pages, and google documents, and “things” on the internet that end with certain extensions like pdf, but I have to wait before I can print the stuff I really need. When that happens, then cloud printing will be really cool for me.
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Today I read a document by Will Mancini that does high level walk through of Church Unique. Every page had a “take away”; I was destroying a highlighter as I read.. Mancini in a concise manner presented more information about visioning than 90% of churches have never thought about.
I was fortunate to be a part of a group that spent six months going through his visioning process. It was a tedious process that I am still learning from. His group, Auxano is in front of the pack when it comes to helping you dissect and reassemble your church or business’s vision.
In one section he speaks to saying “positive no’s” and how saying them can bring people aboard. He then moves right into describing the people in your 
church (or organization). When I read his description I knew how accurate he was. I could see people who fit each of the groups he described.
He says there are four kinds of people in your church when it comes to vision.
Passengers, who you need to nurture and challenge.
Crew members, who you have t equip and empower.
Stowaways, who you have to find and convert.
Pirates, you confront and eliminate.
Take a few minutes and reflect on your church members. When it comes to vision which of these do you have? Think about how important it is to know what role each person is currently in, so you can then know how you should be inter-acting with them.
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