Living the Dream
Once upon a time (starting in 2010 and running for a little over a year) Ben put in a lot of hours on a blog named “Assume The Best.”
It chronicled his life as a full-time staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ, attempting to make light of and encourage specifically around the process of raising financial support.
We had left staff at that point, and this writing is an interesting look into his process of grieving that loss, with an eye toward “becoming a writer.”
Here, in the order they were released, are those posts.
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It’s Shout-out Friday around here, where we take a break from all the shenanigans, tomfoolery, inanity, and larking (with a serious hat tip to thesaurus.com) for a chance to really talk about somebody who is doing some good in the world. Since we have a pretty limited sphere of influence in terms of Continue reading “Shout-Out Fridays: Boldennation.”
November the 29th. That’s the earliest I’ve ever celebrated Christmas. It was still Thanksgiving weekend, sure. But we celebrated Christmas last year with my wife’s extended family on 11/29. You know, just to get a good practice round under our belts so we could watch game film and see where we needed to improve. Call it our non-conference Christmas season opener. Continue reading “About December and the crashing of Christmas Parties.”
If you missed the first half of these tips on Monday, click here to go read that and then come back.
If you insist on just starting with today’s post, I’m also cool with that. It’s your internet. I just write the best support-raising related posts in it. Continue reading “About Christmas Party Crashing Tips (continued)”
Sharing your faith is scary. Anybody over about the age of 13 will tell you that. But it’s got nothing on asking people for money.
Maybe I’m the only one Continue reading “Thankful Thursdays: Lessons in Initiative.”