I was listening to NPR today on my weekly trip to Lowe’s, and the anchor did a phone interview with an aid worker named Joy who was in China for Mercy Corps. I produced a series of radio programs for them a million years ago and I highly respect their founder Dan O’Neill, so I…
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Insights from working in more than 85 countries. I’ll help you live, work, and take better pictures, from anywhere in the world.
Props to Brad Abare, Michael Buckingham and the geniuses that came up with the Church Marketing Lab. There is a new thread on there that you MUST read. I envision every conference that you’ll go to this year will have at least one slide pulled from this list. Just to get you in the right…
Every now and then a deal comes around that you can’t pass up (like buying oil futures when crude was $50 a barrel). My friend Cory at 616 Productions has priced his upcoming Defender’s Conference at an incredible rate that I recommend jumping on. Get this… Mark Mittelberg, Dr. Norm Geisler, Dr. Alex McFarland, Dr. Jason Reed,…
Today I was in a creative session with one of the largest Christian television ministries and we discussed the needs of the world, and what we should do to help. Have you noticed what’s going on in the world right now? Untold thousands dead in Myanmar, and it’s going to get worse as disease spreads. China…
I love technology, I’m not on the bloody edge of tech, but I’m usually an early adopter. That being said, what’s up with Twitter? I’m not sure if it’s cool or just weird. (But that didn’t keep me from signing up!) http://twitter.com/joesindorf I mean, I love Michael Buckingham, but I’m not sure I couldn’t live without…
In a recent discussion with my resident curator of cultural conformity (my 16 year old daughter) (and yes, we do have discussions, where we both actually talk) we chatted about what she thought were the vital characteristics of a church that she would like to attend. It all came down to two basic components: a…
Anna Jarvis worked nine years to establish a national day celebrating mothers. She gave up her job and put her entire time and energy into this quest. She was successful. Then she spent the next 14 years complaining about how people had taken what she had worked so hard for and twisted it, creating a…
I have flown a lot (working in more than 65 nations will do that for you) however, I haven’t flown much in the past two years. Now, the airport lounge is starting to be my office again, and I’m starting to recognize flight attendants. But I’m a travel snob. I’ve been accustomed for years to…
This week I interviewed Hilary, a beautiful college girl who was healed last Sunday during the communion segment of the morning service. She’d been in a car accident and had dislocated her shoulder, badly damaging the tendons. The trauma was not mitigated by therapy so she had surgery. Months later, she still had very limited…
This week I have been back in my old office, working with the same people as before, and although it felt weird every now and then, it proved to me the importance of leaving a place well. When it’s time for you to transition out of a relationship (job, church, friend, city…) leave well. Clean…
Joseph Sindorf
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