New prayer request

Keith Boyer. As I type, he has been in surgery for over nine hours, and will be for at least three more. He is having long-awaited kidney and liver transplants, after suffering major infections from bad seafood.
Keith is the youth minister where I go to church, Northwest Tampa. http://www.tampachurch.org/
Keith's care page is http://www.carepages.com/UpdateListing?seed=647&ClusterNodeID=jb03&tlcx1=tgh&tlcx2=1715476.
The last update I received was about seven hours into surgery and all was well so far. Please pray for Keith, his wife Tonia, and his children David, Casey, Ashley and Alyssa.

BE THE PARENT

Okay, so I read too much. This is the latest and greatest, though. Go out there and get a copy or borrow one from the library if you're like me. (It's an easy read. I read it in one day.) It's called BE THE PARENT (Seven choices you can make to raise great kids) and it's written by Kendra Smiley. It has several really specific suggestions that I can't believe I never thought about before.

I started typing a few highlights for my own memory as much as anything but it was taking forever. So, I'm going to buy my own copy and do a lot of underlining. Go buy your own, too. :)

Please pray for Mark

Mark is a third-grader at T&Ts new school. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 and has had a hard six years: five-pound kidney tumor, lung tumor, MDS in his bone marrow, and, just this past November, leukemia. He has been in the hospital THIS TIME since December 18, and it's been touch-and-go. (He actually essentially coded once last week.) Please pray for Mark and his family. What a trial. God bless our children. Read his story and sign the guestbook. http://www.caringbridge.org/fl/mark/

The New Format

If you haven't heard of NOOMA yet or still haven't seen any of the DVDs, you are totally missing you. Ingenious. Thought-provoking. Informative. Emotional. I can't think of enough words to get your attention. From their website: "We can get anything we want, from anywhere in the world, whenever we want it. That's how it is and that's how we want it to be. Still, our lives aren't any different than other generations before us. Our time is. We want spiritual direction, but it has to be real for us and available when we need it. We want a new format for getting Christian perspectives. NOOMA is the new format. It's short films with communicators that really speak to us. Compact, portable, and concise. Each NOOMA touches on issues that we care about, that we want to talk about, and it comes in a way that fits our world. It's a format that's there for us when we need it, as we need it, how we need it."
Go at once to www.nooma.com!