Baller 21

Join Me in Prayer

Hello people. Many of you that follow this blog I know personally, and yet there are also many you that I don’t know.
But regardless of how you got here, (family, friends, similar interests, curiosity, or through a random search) you are here, and I want to let you in on something important happening manana.
Tomorrow [...]

Ex-Drug Dealers, Hip Hop, and New Dawn

On October 19, these two ex-drug dealers, aka Blue Chip (Gerard Hennig) and Specialist (Rudy Ramos), will be coming to our church to rap and preach the Word during our main service (11 am -12:30 pm).
This Hip-Hop duo has toured the U.S. and overseas in Europe and have shared the stage with Corey Red, [...]

Conference Trip to Nashville

Heading down to Nashville, TN this weekend for an Hispanic church leadership conference put on by LifeWay (nothing online about this conference, but they tell me it’s a go).
The sessions that our church, New Dawn, will be concentrating on will be with Sunday School and Youth Ministry.
The Hispanic division of the Kentucky [...]

Lessons in the Power Outage

We have our power back on (despite the fact that thousands still are without here in Louisville)!
I remember commenting to my wife during the few days without electricity that we have it good (compared to many around the world) and that we take so much for granted.
Despite the power outage, we still had undamaged shelter, [...]

Now on Facebook

I finally gave in last night to a few requests that I have received for a while now to join Facebook.
Here is the deal. I didn’t feel like I needed multiple sites to maintain and connect with people when I already have this blog to operate. Right?
Also, I wasn’t convinced of the quality [...]

Baller 21 in a Wordle

Have you heard about Wordle? Here is how the website describes the product:
“Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you [...]

Miss the Beach

Back from the West Coast already. The trip is always fun but goes by too quick. Our camera crapped out on us, so we had to rely on any photos from our family. Here are a few shots from Huntington Beach.

My wife and I at the pier.

My nephew Ayden and I building sand castles. [...]

Surprise Trip to Cali

Airplane tickets from Kentucky to California = $450.
Surprising my family and seeing their reaction (shocked, confused, happy) = priceless!
Holding my little niece for the first time = priceless + speechless + timeless!