tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56857350277625262382009-07-09T12:10:18.431-05:00InRoadsJohn Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-88425889313936425842009-07-09T12:09:00.000-05:002009-07-09T12:10:18.440-05:00Glocal Mission Project (Global + Local)<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">Have you ever wanted to go to a global mission project but can’t afford the cost financially or time? On August 15, from 8:00am to 5:00pm there will be a one day mission project to Bhutanese refugees. Most have lived in refugee camps for 18 years and have little knowledge about how to take care of their apartments. We are going to supply them with cleaning supplies and help clean their apartments as we show them how to keep their surroundings clean. This is a great trip for ages 12 and up. There will be an orientation and training time on August 9, at 12:30pm in the Fireside Room. Register online to attend. For more information contact </span></span><span style="font-family:BellMT;"><span style="font-family: BellMT;"><st1:personname st="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">John Shapiro</span></span></st1:personname><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"> at </span></span><a title="mailto:john.shapiro@fbcmckinney.com" href="mailto:john.shapiro@fbcmckinney.com"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">john.shapiro@fbcmckinney.com</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">.</span></span></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="https://secure.accessacs.com/access/mydashboard/myvolcommitment.aspx?nid=60&pid=7&src=avail&pnid=45"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">Register</span></span></b></i></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-8842588931393642584?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-82770724801826352182009-06-30T09:14:00.001-05:002009-06-30T09:14:49.412-05:00This is a video I got from http://jesusneedsnewpr.blogspot.com/2009/06/questions-letter-to-god.html. Think well....<br /><br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5378334&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5378334&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/5378334">Matthew Paul Turner-On Questions</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/crosspointchurch">Cross Point Church</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-8277072480182635218?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-61794114552075405952009-06-23T10:07:00.001-05:002009-06-23T10:07:50.332-05:00Creative CaringThis video came from the <a href="http://www.goodwillhinton.com/good_will_hinton_interviews_jeff_shinabargergift_card_giver">Good Will Hinton Website.</a> It is about how a desire to care for others combined with creative thinking lead to a new way of caring for those in need.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WRtn-dPc1J0&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WRtn-dPc1J0&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="349"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-6179411455207540595?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-28294698198451723512009-06-18T08:24:00.002-05:002009-06-18T08:24:55.675-05:00Issue of the De-ChurchedThis is one of the best discriptors of why people leave the church:<br /><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XzTm3W2Ai7s&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XzTm3W2Ai7s&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-2829469819845172351?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-31044267369273174462009-06-15T11:40:00.000-05:002009-06-15T13:22:33.411-05:00<blockquote>Karl Marx famously spoke of religion as the opium of the people. He supposed that oppressive rulers would use the promise of a joyful future life to try to stop the masses from rising in revolt. That has indeed often been the case. But my impression is that religion is an 'opium' when the religion in question includes the Platonic downgrading of bodies and of "the created order in general, regarding them as the "vain shadows" of earth, which we happily leave behind at death. Why try to improve the present prison if release is at hand? Why oil the wheels of a machine that will soon plunge over a cliff?<br /><br />That is precisely the effect created to this day by some devout Christians who genuinely believe that "salvation" has nothing to do with the way the present world is ordered. By contrast, it has often been observed that the robust Jewish and Christian doctrine of the resurrection, as part of God's new creation, gives more value, not less, to the present world and to our present bodies. What these doctrines give, both in classic Judaism and in classic Christianity, is a sense of continuity as well as discontinuity between the present world (and the present state), and the future, whatever it shall be, with the result that what we do in the present matters enormously. Paul speaks of the future resurrection as a major motive for treating our bodies properly in the present time (I Corinthians 6:14), and as the reason not for sitting back and waiting for it all to happen but for working hard in the present, knowing that nothing done in the Lord, in the power of the Spirit, in the present time will be wasted in God's future (I Corinthians<br />15:58)….<br /><br />Resurrection, by contrast, has always gone with a strong view of God's justice and of God as the good creator. Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English evangelicals gave up believing in the urgent imperative to improve society (such as we find with Wilberforce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) about the same time that they gave up believing robustly in resurrection and settled for a disembodied heaven instead. It would take a longer study than this one to see whether the same shift happened at the same time in the United States and elsewhere, but I would not be surprised to find that it did. We shall come back to this crucial theme toward the end of the book.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://trevinwax.com/2008/02/27/book-review-surprised-by-hope/"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></a><blockquote><a href="http://trevinwax.com/2008/02/27/book-review-surprised-by-hope/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Surprised by Hope</span></a> by N.T. Wright</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-3104426736927317446?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-87741980518026847962009-06-12T13:47:00.001-05:002009-06-12T13:47:34.535-05:00VBS Help NeededMelissa let me know that they need about 10 more volunteers for VBS. I was wondering if you might be willing to help. Here are the needs. Please contact Children's Ministry for more information.<br /><br />We need the following:<br />2 volunteers in 4 year olds<br />2 volunteers in Pre-K<br />2 volunteers in Kindergarten<br />2 volunteers in 1st grade<br />2 volunteers in 2nd grade<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-8774198051802684796?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-75951310808479167822009-06-01T09:15:00.000-05:002009-06-01T09:16:09.119-05:00Great day yesterdayThanks for the fun yesterday! You guys are so supportive of the seniors. I am thankful for your class. I found a follow up post to the article that was passed out in class yesterday. Thought you might like to read it: <a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/whats-really-going-on-in-san-diego" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span>http://www.internetmonk.co</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>m/archive/whats-really-goi</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>ng-on-in-san-diego</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-7595131080847916782?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-51660202923856627332009-05-28T16:24:00.002-05:002009-05-28T16:31:26.032-05:00Senior Recognition Sunday on 5.31.09This Sunday we will be recognizing graduating seniors in all our services. At 8:30 A. M. there will be a breakfast hosted in their honor in Room 2111. This will be a great time to meet the seniors and congratulate them on their accomplishment while welcoming them to join InRoads. Look forward to seeing you there!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-5166020292385662733?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-22881778142162801352009-05-20T11:19:00.001-05:002009-05-20T11:21:31.400-05:00Quote of the Day 5.20.09<blockquote>Growing up in a small conservative church in the South, you hear more about morality than you do about Christ. If you were immoral, if you danced, drank, or cussed, you were made to feel that God no longer liked you. And if you were moral, you were made to feel not one with Christ, but right and good and better than other people. These things were not stated directly but the environment left me with this impression. Christian spirituality, then, hinged on whether or nor a person behaved.<br /><br />I don’t mean any of this to suggest I don’t want to behave, or that I want to go on sinning and say that it is okay with God. There is no part of me that believes anything like this can be defended scripturally. A god who says everybody can do as they please would be a bad god, a bad father, giving license for anarchy. Love creates rules, and forgives when they are broken. People would hurt themselves if they did anything they wanted. People do hurt themselves and others all the time by neglecting laws and rules.<br />What I really wanted, though, was a reason for morals, a reason stronger than somebody's simple suggestion that right was right and wrong was wrong.<br /><br />When David wrote his Twenty-third Psalm he indicated God led him in the paths of righteousness s for His name's sake. This struck me, recently, when I was reading through the psalms. I had always thought morality was something God created exclusively to keep mankind out of the ditches, and to a large degree I suppose this is true, but David concept of morality was quite new to me and I wondered exactly what he meant by the phrase "for His name sake."<br /><br /><br />Morality, then, if you think about it, is the way we imitate God. It is the way we imitate the ways of heaven here on earth. Jesus says, after all, to know Him we must follow Him, we must cling to Him and imitate Him, and many places in Scripture the idea is presented that if we know Him, we will obey Him.<br /><br />If you look for this relational concept of morality, you see it all through Scripture….[all of Scripture] keeps saying if we know God we will love our brother, and if we know God we will obey.<br /><br />from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Hw4gWVAoz8kC&dq=Searching+for+God+Knows+What&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=3C0USoiSJZSS9QSG-KX_Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4"><span style="font-style: italic;">Searching for God Knows What</span></a> by Donald Miller</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-2288177814216280135?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-23635805915780836242009-05-12T10:21:00.000-05:002009-05-12T10:22:11.683-05:00Quote for 5.12.09<blockquote>Sometimes I think it is easier for you and me to believe Jesus is God now that He is in heaven than it might have been back when He was walking around on earth. If you would have seen Jesus do miracles, and if you were one of those who were healed by Him or if you were one of the disciples, then it would have been easier, but for most people, especially the Jews, Jesus would have been a stumbling block.<br /> <br />At the same time, however, we are at a disadvantage because the Jesus that exists in our minds is hardly the real Jesus. The Jesus on CNN, the Jesus in our books and in our movies, the Jesus that is a collection of evangelical personalities, is often a Jesus of the suburbs, a Jesus who wants you to be a better yuppie, a Jesus who is extremely political and supports a specific party, a Jesus who has declared a kind of culture war in the name of our children, a Jesus who worked through the founding fathers to begin America, a Jesus who dresses very well, speaks perfect English, has three points that fulfill any number of promises and wants you and me to be above all, comfortable. Is this the real Jesus?<br /> <br />Is Jesus sitting in the lifeboat with us, stroking our backs and telling us we are the ones who are right and one day these other infidels are going to pay, that we are the ones who are going to survive and the others are going to be thrown over because we are Calvinists, Armenians, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics; because we are Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, or liberals; because we attend a big church, a small church, an ethnically diverse church, a house church, or is Jesus acting in our hearts to reach out to the person who isn't like us-the oppressed, the poor, the unchurched-and to humble ourselves, give of our money, build our communities in love, give our time, our creativity, get on our knees before our enemies in humility, treating them as Scripture says, as people who are more important than we are? The latter is the Jesus of Scripture; the former, which is infinitely more popular in evangelical culture, is a myth sharing<br />a genre with unicorns.<br /></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Searching for God Knows What</span> by Donald Miller<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-2363580591578083624?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-16993444053365811082009-05-11T10:39:00.001-05:002009-05-11T10:43:07.815-05:00Study of John<div style="text-align: center;">In Roads<br />John 2:12-24<br />Jesus clears the Temple<br /></div><br />1. Miracles – Messiah – Isaiah 9:1-2 – Zebulom and Naftali (Assyria destroyed) when he spent some time in Capernaum he chose disciples – He ministered with his family (mom and brothers).<br />2. Passover – Jerusalem – big travel from Capernaum in the North all way to the South. Once/year – We should do our evaluation the same way. Exodus 12 – April – first month, Jesus is our Passover (Lamb without defect, prepared 3 days before sacrifice (he entered the city 3 days before), sacrificed by all congregation, no bones broken– He had the Last Supper at the Passover – 1.446 BC when they left Egypt they were 2.000.000 people.<br />3. Passover had unleavened Bread – no yeast meant no sin. The Passover Feast lasted one day, and the Unleavened Bread lasted a week. Celebration of Freedom from Egypt. We all have left our Egypt, what are the milestones?<br />4. Luke 2:49 – Jesus was always in the Temple, and he purified it twice – Mark 11:15-18. See prophecy Malachy 3:1.<br />5. God’s place was a market place – Exchange rate and animal business – why we go to church to make business contacts and have personal agendas? Are we busy..<br />6. Jesus had Authority – what was wrong was wrong – He showed tough love. We need today pastors that preach the Bible and no compromise.<br />7. He would destroy the Temple and raise it in 3 days – what does it mean? His body versus physical building. Do Physical buildings mean much theses days?<br />8. Some believers were superficial – when he was popular they followed him but when he was persecuted they shouted “crucify”. Do we act based on conveniences, or conviction?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">John 3:1-22<br />Nicodemus visits Jesus at night<br /></div><br />1. Pharisees – Matthews 3 – definition<br /> Nicodemus was part of the Jewish ruling council and was an important role, although he was following Jesus at a distance. How many do that today? Jesus challenged their views so he wanted to check for himself, and see him face to face. <br />2. How do we see the Kingdom of God?<br /> . Talking to a council member? We need to be born again: another disruptive principle or truth – remember John Baptist (He comes after, but was before me), Jesus clearing the Temple (we will destroy the Temple and will rebuild in 3 days – it took them 46 years to build it).<br />3. Knowledge is not salvation – We should know/study the Bible but also understand God (not rationalize it).<br />4. Speak of earthly things, you don’t understand it, how will you understand of heavingly things (what language you speak? What are your habits) Do you see difference in friends that don’t speak the same language or go the same places?<br />5. Snakes in the desert – looking up for the snake would save people, so Jesus was the same as people looking up to Him would be saved – Numbers 21:8-9.<br />6. John 3:16 – God’s love is reaching out – to have a ministry, a purpose. It is like Friendship that requires sacrifice.<br />7. Light x Darkness – When you do something wrong, you try to hide it, and then you live with FEAR. Come to Light, and be aware that it is only because of what God has done through you (always GOD).<br />8. Have you searched Jesus like Nicodemus? In the secrecy of your life? One on one?<br />. If not, need to do so (stop complaining, whining, wondering) Psalms 40:2-3 – Ask God to put a new song in your mouth.<br />. If you have done so (are you living in the light, still have the first love, passion – is anything your way?<br />. Bill Harbels – Chicago church and the 4 categories of people today. (not know the Gospel, start attending, Christ like but one problem, God is Lord).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">John 4:1-26<br />The Samaritan Woman meets Jesus in the Well.<br /></div><br />1. Jesus was gaining popularity – He left Jerusalem – Not the right time to conform the leaders openly. So He went back to his refuge = Galilee. (Where is your Galilee? Where do you feel like you are yourself, at home?) Where you can let your guards down, and recharge.<br />2. Samaritans were not pure JEWS, they had intermarriage with foreigners – City called Sychar.<br />USA – 19-26 years old - 70% accept interracial marriage today. Do we have prejudice? I don’t go to the East I 75 – that’s for Hispanics, New Orleans.<br />3. Jacob’s well – given to Joseph – how interesting Have Jesus sit at the same well. Feel tired like anyone else…after a long journey.<br />4. Samaritan woman x Jesus as a Jew. How did she know that he was a Jew? Accent?<br />5. Disruptive Truth: Living Water – never be thirst again. How could Jesus draw water from the deep well? Are you greater than Jacob?<br />6. She asked Jesus to give her the water…Why Jesus asked for her husband? Jesus knows our Flaws … She said I have no husband (yes, had 5 so far).<br />7. She asks about the place for worship. Why? Does she have to move? After Jesus explained, did she get it? The Messiah will explain…<br />8. True worshipers in Spirit and Truth - God seeks those people.<br />9. She was evasive, and not willing to comfront reality. Jesus could not be more clear – “ I who speak to you am He”. Help me to help you, some people don’t want to take the effort. Opportunity was so close, in her face, but she did not want.<br />10. Jesus broke the barrier and talked with the prostitute and how she broke the “Jewish” cultural barrier. He told everything she had done. At that time they had no “cameras, face-book. Still true Today?<br />11. Rabbi eat something – Spiritual x carnal – Why Jesus responded so harshly?<br />12. Disciples were surprised Jesus was talking to a woman, but they did not ask…should they?<br />13. A man who told what I did = Christ. Is that a valid definition? What would He need to do to convince you He is the Christ?<br />14. I have food to eat that you know nothing about!! Disruptive Principle – Was Jesus too harsh? What is your food? What keeps you going?<br />15. How do we know God’s will?<br />16. Jesus needed to finish God’s work, it means it started years ago as we studied through the Old Testament. God is working on you…<br />17. Reap what you have not worked for ---Are we sowers or reapers? Who is the reaper and who is the sower?<br />18. Do we trust people with bad reputation for advice? Why the crowd took her word?<br />19. We should have our own faith and experience, and not live on our father’s or because someone told us…<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-1699344405336581108?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-35094091625142303982009-05-07T14:54:00.001-05:002009-05-07T14:54:56.414-05:00Quote of the Day<blockquote>Though our principles may give us a sense of safety and prevent us from making some wrong moves, they can also give us the false impression that we have it all figured out. The result is an air of smugness filled with the unpleasant odor of misdirected zeal, and it's hardly attractive or helpful to those who are hurting - or even to those who simply crave a dynamic relationship with a nonformulaic God. People who are struggling generally have questions that aren't easily answered by broad scripture principles. We need a personal touch. And hyperdoctinalism is anything but personal.</blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fixing-Abraham-Taming-Heroes-Blinds/dp/1414321724"><span style="font-style: italic;">Fixing Abraham</span></a> by Chris Tiegreen</div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-3509409162514230398?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-37194172785141538042009-04-27T10:06:00.001-05:002009-04-27T10:07:59.421-05:00Quote of the Day<blockquote>I realized that. Jesus was always, and I mean always, talking about love, about people, about relationship, and He never once broke anything into steps or formulas. What if, because we were constantly trying to dissect His message, we were missing a blatant invitation? I began to wonder if becoming a Christian did not work more like falling in love than agreeing with a list of true principles. I had met a lot of people who agreed with all those true principles, and they were jerks, and a lot of other people who believed in those principles, but who also claimed to love Jesus, who were not jerks. It seems like something else has to take place in the heart for somebody to become a believer, for somebody to understand the gospel of Jesus. It began to seem like more than just a cerebral exercise. What if the gospel of Jesus was an invitation to know God?<br /><br />Now I have to tell you, all of this frightened me a bit because I had always assumed a kind of anonymity with God. When I saw myself in heaven, I didn't imagine sitting at the right hand of God, as the Scripture says, but I pictured myself off behind some mountain range doing some fishing and writing a good detective novel. But if the gospel of Jesus is relational; that is, if our brokenness will be fixed, not by our understanding of theology, but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only heaven knows. Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation. It's kind of exciting if you think about it. Earthly love, I mean the stuff I was trying to get by sounding smart, is temporal and slight so that it has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God's love, God's voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them. Perhaps this is what the apostles stumbled upon.</blockquote><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Hw4gWVAoz8kC&dq=Searching+for+God+KNows+What&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=asn1SbCCAqLhtgfMrdWkDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4"><span style="font-style: italic;">Searching for God Knows What</span></a> by Donald Miller<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-3719417278514153804?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-3644843269805162702009-04-20T09:23:00.001-05:002009-04-20T09:34:58.019-05:00Getting the Most out of your Bible Study<div><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"> </span></span></o:p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">Do you desire to understand better how to apply the Bible to your every day life? Do wish your personal bible study was richer and had more impact on your world and the world around you? Beginning June 7, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname st="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">John Shapiro</span></span></st1:personname><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"> will be offering a six week course on <i style="">Living by the Book</i> by Howard and William Hendricks. The class will be limited to 25 and meet on Sunday mornings at 8:30 AM. The cost of the class will be $20. For more information, contact </span></span><st1:personname st="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">John Shapiro</span></span></st1:personname><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"> at <i>john.shapiro@fbcmckinney.com</i>.</span></span></span></div> <div><a href="http://www.fbcmckinney.com/templates/default.asp?id=43279&PID=633131"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;">Register</span></span></span></b></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-364484326980516270?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-13018040048029641612009-04-07T14:39:00.000-05:002009-04-07T14:40:13.264-05:00Summer Job Opportunity<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;">Attention all college students!</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;">The Glorieta Conference Center in Glorieta, NM is looking for students to work in beautiful New Mexico. Grow in the Lord and grow your bank account at the same time. Our High Point Program is designed to provide spiritual training and experience in servant-leadership. Employment dates are May 25th - August 8th (departure date is August 9th).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;">Staff will be paid a weekly salary ($225. - $245.) and receive free room and board. Positions to be filled are: Dining Hall, Guest Housing, Chuck Wagon, Recreation, Conference Support, Front Desk and Utility Crew/Life Guards.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;">To learn more about High Point, to see detailed job descriptions, and to apply, visit us on the web at www.lifeway.com/glorietasummerstaff, or reply to andrew.morris@lifeway.com.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-1301804004802964161?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-37137155409159443592009-04-01T09:27:00.001-05:002009-04-01T09:27:44.712-05:00Closing the Doors?<p class="MsoNormal">My life is committed professionally and personally to the growth and development of the church (both little “c” and big “C”). Because of that, it might seem counter intuitive that I would be passionate about closing the doors one Sunday out of the year. The church where I worship and serve did this for the first time last year and will do it again on May 3<sup>rd</sup>. It is part of our “Go and Be” weekend that we don’t hold regular scheduled worship gatherings as part of the weekend but instead focus on being out in the community serving.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>My passion for this stems from both an organizational and educational perspective. It is an organizational challenge to plan, prepare, and mobilize to be closed on Sunday. There are real financial issues of not having a time of offering. What about the people who are new to the community or maybe trying church for the first time and they see that our doors are closed? The issue is that we don’t just want to close the doors but open up service opportunities. Those opportunities remind us that we are the church and the church is at its best when is engaged in the community serving.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>From personal, educational, and teaching perspective, some of the best lessons I have experienced come from giving practical application to ideas or principles. The principle that the church is not the building comes alive when we see the doors locked and God’s people still gathering in service. I love explaining to my children why today is different from every other Sunday…much like on Easter, Christmas, Good Friday, or any other special moment in the life of the church.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Closing our doors helps us to create a conversation that is desperately needed in the life of church culture. It is largely symbolic but symbols are important. If you don’t believe that try removing a cross or a steeple or an American flag. Symbols communicate powerfully what is important. For the other 51 weeks in the practice of gathering together, we meet at the same place and for all practical purposes do the same thing. The rest of the world moves along pleased for us to practice what we believe in our places of “worship.” But what happens when those places or worship move into their backyards, their business, their schools, their homes, their hurts. Just maybe we will begin understand on a deeper level what Romans 12: 1-2 means when it says, “<span style="" lang="EN">Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, <i>which is </i>your spiritual service of worship.</span><span lang="EN"> </span><span style="" lang="EN">And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.</span>”</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-3713715540915944359?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-33611151577324860632009-03-26T12:53:00.001-05:002009-03-26T12:53:57.372-05:00Quote of the Day<span style="font-size:130%;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;">The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart - it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice - it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the morrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we can even know to ask.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">from<span style="font-style: italic;"> Thoughts and Reflections</span> by Rich Mullins</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-3361115157732486063?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-73833039045526203242009-03-12T11:08:00.001-05:002009-03-12T11:11:46.924-05:00Lent, Monsters, and EasterDon’t laugh at this but I gave up Monster Energy Drinks for Lent. I had been drinking them just enough that I have missed them. When I miss them I realize why I gave them up, and Easter is not that far away.<br /><br />What I have noticed about giving something up (even as silly as Monster Energy Drinks) for Lent, is that it builds anticipation. But the question that was rattling around in my semi-groggy head this morning is, “What am I waiting for?” Am I waiting for a over sugary-caffeinated drink, or am I waiting to celebrate the resurrection of my Savior and best friend. He has done so much for me but have I taken it for granted.<br /><br />I read this section from N. T. Wright’s book <span style="font-style: italic;">Surprised by Hope</span> that I felt put this all in perspective for me:<br /><br /><blockquote>So how can we learn to live as wide-awake people, as Easter people? Here I have some bracing suggestions to make. I have come to believe that many churches simply throw Easter away year by year; and I want to plead that we rethink how we do it so as to help each other, as a church and as individuals, to live what we profess….<br /><br />…my biggest problem starts on Easter Monday. I regard it absurd and unjustifiable that we should spend forty days keeping Lent, pondering what it means, preaching about self-denial, being at least a little gloomy, and then bringing it all to a peak with Holy Week, which in turn climaxes in Maundy Thursday and Good Friday…and then, after a rather odd Holy Saturday, we have a single day of celebration.<br /><br />All right, the Sundays after Easter still lie within the Easter Season. We still have Easter readings and hymns during them. But Easter week itself ought not to be the time when all the clergy sigh with relief and go on holiday. It ought to be an eight-day festival, with champagne served after morning prayer or even before, with lots alleluias and extra hymns and spectacular anthems. Is it any wonder people find it hard to believe in the resurrection of Jesus if we don’t throw our hats in the air? Is it any wonder we find it hard to live the resurrection if we don't do it exuberantly in our liturgies? Is it any wonder the world doesn't take much notice if Easter is celebrated as simply the one-day happy ending tacked on to forty days of fast and gloom? It's long overdue that we took a hard look at how keep Easter in church, at home, in our personal lives, right through the system. And if it means rethinking some cherished habits, well maybe it's time to wake up. That always comes as a surprise.<br /><br /><br />…In particular, if Lent is a time to give things up, Easter ought to be a time to take things up. Champagne for breakfast again-well, of course. Christian holiness was never meant to be merely negative. Of course you have to weed the garden from time to time; sometimes the ground ivy may need serious digging before you can get it out. That's Lent for you. But you don't want simply to turn the garden back into a neat bed of blank earth. Easter is the time to sow new seeds and to plant out a few cuttings. If Calvary means putting to death things in your life that need killing off if you are to flourish as a Christian and as a truly human being, then Easter should mean planting, watering, and training up things in your life (personal and corporate) that ought to be blossoming, filling the garden with color and perfume, and in due course bearing fruit. The forty days of the Easter season, until the ascension, ought to be a time to balance out Lent by taking something up, some new task or venture, something wholesome and fruitful and outgoing and self-giving. You may be able to do it only for six weeks, just as you may be able to go without beer or tobacco only for the six weeks of Lent. But if you really make a start on it, it might give you a sniff of new possibilities, new hopes, new ventures you never dreamed of. It might bring something of Easter into your innermost life. It might help you wake up in a whole new way. And that's what Easter is all about.</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-7383303904552620324?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-49792466337938557162009-03-05T10:41:00.000-06:002009-03-05T10:42:27.137-06:00David Edwards This Week<p><span style="font-size: 130%;">Join Grace, InRoads, and 2333 to hear David Edwards, author and comedian this Sunday (3/8). David will speak at 10:15 AM in the Mini-Theater. You will not want to miss this great time!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 130%;">Also don't forget to set your clocks ahead on Saturday night one hour!</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-4979246633793855716?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-16691471692226630922009-03-03T09:08:00.002-06:002009-03-03T09:10:05.322-06:00Let's Go to Latvia!<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Latvia mission trip for college & young professionals & anybody who's lots of fun!</span><br /><p><span style="font-size: 130%;">September 23 - October 5, 2009</span><br /><br />Informational meeting on Thursday night, March 5th at 6 P.M.<br />In The Quarry at FBC McKinney<br />for more information email<br />Ree Reinhardt at ree.reihardt@gmail.com.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-1669147169222663092?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-25770074145319620042009-03-03T09:08:00.001-06:002009-03-03T09:09:57.824-06:00Let's Go to Latvia!<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Latvia mission trip for college & young professionals & anybody who's lots of fun!</span><br /><p><span style="font-size: 130%;">September 23 - October 5, 2009</span><br /><br />Informational meeting on Thursday night, March 5th at 6 P.M.<br />In The Quarry at FBC McKinney<br />for more information email<br />Ree Reinhardt at ree.reihardt@gmail.com.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-2577007414531962004?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-75715114469047940402009-01-15T09:18:00.000-06:002009-01-15T09:19:17.848-06:00Men's Ministry<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Men’s Retreat is right around the corner. You will not want to miss this opportunity. This will be great weekend. To sign up please go to the link below or type it in as the URL. You will register and pay online through Sabine Creek’s website. When registering you will need to state your are with FBC McKinney, make sure you state <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">McKinney</st1:city></st1:place> not just FBC. After you have registered, please confirm with me that you are attending. I will make a list and then begin communicating more details. You will find the retreat schedule below. For directions to Sabine Creek Ranch, look on their website.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p><a title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/mensretreat.html" href="http://www.sabinecreek.com/mensretreat.html">http://www.sabinecreek.com/mensretreat.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="header"><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Man I Want to Be</span></span></u> details:<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="header"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cost: $75 includes Conference Fee, 3 Meals, and Overnight Lodging<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="header"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12pt;">Retreat Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="header"><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">FRIDAY – JANUARY 23</span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></b></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">4:30- 6pm Registration and Check-in</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">6:30 p.m. Mexican Dinner</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">7:30 p.m. </span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Session I</span></span></b></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">8:30 p.m. Break </span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">8:45 p.m. </span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Session II</span></span></b></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">9:45 p.m. Evening activities available in Dining Hall or church fellowships</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">SATURDAY – JANUARY 24</span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></b></strong><b><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></b><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">6:30 a.m. Coffee Open</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">8:00 a.m. Breakfast Line Opens</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">8:35 a.m. Breakfast Line Closes</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">8:30 a.m. Open doors</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">9:00 a.m. </span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Session III</span></span></b></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">10:15 a.m.</span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></b></strong><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">Break </span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">10:45 a.m. </span></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Session IV </span></span></b></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">12:00 p.m. Lunch</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">1-3 p.m. Fishing (bring your pole, catch and release), Horseshoes, Volleyball, Basketball, Hang out on ranch</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;">3:00 p.m. Depart</span></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#336600;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html" href="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html"><span title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;" title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html"><br /></span></span></span><span title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html" style="color:#336600;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 0); text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.sabinecreek.com/contact.html"></span></span></a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-7571511446904794040?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-34596477192554334212008-12-01T10:55:00.000-06:002008-12-01T10:56:25.158-06:00Advent Conspiracy<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eVqqj1v-ZBU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eVqqj1v-ZBU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-3459647719255433421?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-71864227985450339942008-10-21T08:34:00.003-05:002008-10-21T08:37:44.641-05:00Scare Away Hunger PartyOn October 31st, InRoads will gather at Eric's house for a <a href="http://scareawayhunger.org/">Scare Away Hunger</a> Party. We will meet at 7:00 PM. We'll go around the neighborhood collecting cans (we'll have a wheelbarrel or something) then will hang out afterwards....definitely dressing up in costumes. No dinner, may have some snacks...It will be great fun and serve a great need! <a href="mailto:erickfanini@tx.rr.com">Click here for directions.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-7186422798545033994?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685735027762526238.post-83424065682712390232008-10-20T10:22:00.000-05:002008-10-20T10:23:12.248-05:00Scare Away Hunger 2008 Video<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oVIgO21WXLo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oVIgO21WXLo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5685735027762526238-8342406568271239023?l=inroadsfbc.blogspot.com'/></div>John Shapirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604462778260375846JohnTShapiro@gmail.com0