Missional Heart

Take this storytelling festival folks

This is what I do instead of going to storytelling festivals or apple picking. Game 4 RedSox/Angels in Boston.

Origins name change announced

Today, we launched our new name, Trinity Grace Church, please visit the new site: www.trinitygracechurch.com

We think this will continue to allow us to contextualize the message of Jesus' church on NYC. Trinity Grace Church, a community living in the grace of God with a heart for the city and the world.

This is a must watch...

On politics and The Church...

It is becoming more and more increasingly aware that the "right" is having a more and more difficult time trying to influence the presidential race and sway people to vote republican. Even within the confines of it's own camps people are publicly finding it difficult to side with Rip van Winkle and an undisclosed running partner.

Let me give you my tell-of-the-tape.

Obama is about riding the waves of the popular vote and the classic appeal of something new vs' something old (no pun intended John) and seemingly tried and undelivered. In my honest opinion, McCaiN, much like my awesome, stoic and very dead grandfather, is trying to fashion his platform on laurels- Hey, JM, let me grab your ear for a moment... We don't care about laurels, this is America. The land of the promise to prosper at any costs. That's why a former civic community leader can run for office in Chi-town and get elected, give a dynamic speech on turning our two favorite kool-aid colors purple and in 4 years become the band-aid for Washington and you can't. Also, it's hard listening to you claim to have been in an enemy prison camp, when the only thought this current voting generation has on camps is boyscouts and church retreats, not to mention that most of our parents are in the prison system and lots of us are headed that way... Roughly 1 in ever 4 will visit the penial system before capitalism will have its chance to screw them first.

So, I digress and just thank both men for giving a good, healthy dose of realism to us as to why our country is in the turmoil it is in. When black and white are a major issue, rather than qualified and not stands to demonstrate our current progress in America. When we praise a man and woman for breaking molds and casts systems, rather than being men and women of character, we place a time stamp on our current era.

Let this question soak in. How can we think that change is around the corner when it has taken 45 years for a nation to become comfortable with African Americans to legitimately contend for the presidential office? Even better, white women, who were given the rights to vote constitutionally in 1920 have yet to be deemed a viable contender. I am more and more convinced that women and even more so, African American women are more suppressed than men. This is the America that I am ashamed of.

Mrs. Obama, I respect your comments on being proud of our country for once, when suppression of gender and race are fading and people are given their due for what they have done and the character and integrity they behold. The days of elitism are waning, and rightfully so - they should.

This message is approved of by Erick Bauman. Please be on the lookout for Bauman 2016. I am placing my self in the mix for presidential elect in 2016, today. The campaign begins.... Now!

Just for good measure

This video says it all. The Horseshoe is the Home of Champions and the ultimate TitleTown in Columbus, O-HI-O, USA.

It is that precious time of year & We are seeking REDEMPTION!

Buckeye Battle Cry

In old Ohio there's a team
That's known thru-out the land;
Eleven warriors, brave and bold,
Whose fame will ever stand.
And when the ball goes over,
Our cheers will reach the sky,
Ohio field will hear again
The Buckeye Battle Cry-

Drive! Drive on down the field,
Men of the scarlet and gray;
Don't let them thru that line,
We have to win this game today,
Come on, Ohio!
Smash through to victory.
We cheer you as you go:
Our honor defend
So we'll fight to the end for O-hi-o.

Clip to Audio!!!

This is a pretty amazing thing...

Please watch this video... I am going to extensive research on this topic. If there is anyone out there reading this, please tell me what you know. The technique is called Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP.

On the way to Niagara Falls...

We got hungry on our 500 mile trek from Manhattan to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada so we decided to stop and grab a bit. We didn't know that we just picked the smallest town in all upstate NY, Canandaigua, circa 1796.

The BBQ joint Sticky Fingers, unrelated to the chain Sticky Fingers in the south, absolutely was the worst BBQ experience I've ever had. The pulled pork platter was swimming in BBQ before I had a chance to taste the flavor of the meat. The cornbread was undercooked, as well as the sausage being dried up like fruit in trail-mix.

Needless to say the entrée for lunch was atrocious; however, the cranberry granola bar from the Pheonix Coffeeshop next door was off the charts!!! The dessert bar totally redeemed my Canandaigua experience.

The town was über colonial and quaint, which is how I prefer my "suburb," unlike a typical suburb on the outskirts of a large metropolis.

On to Niagara Falls!

On the way to Niagara Falls...

We got hungry on our 500 mile trek from Manhattan to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada so we decided to stop and grab a bit. We didn't know that we just picked the smallest town in all upstate NY, Canandaigua, circa 1796.

The BBQ joint Sticky Fingers, unrelated to the chain Sticky Fingers in the south, absolutely was the worst BBQ experience I've ever had. The pulled pork platter was swimming in BBQ before I had a chance to taste the flavor of the meat. The cornbread was undercooked, as well as the sausage being dried up like fruit in trail-mix.

Needless to say the entrée for lunch was atrocious; however, the cranberry granola bar from the Pheonix Coffeeshop next door was off the charts!!! The dessert bar totally redeemed my Canandaigua experience.

The town was über colonial and quaint, which is how I prefer my "suburb," unlike a typical suburb on the outskirts of a large metropolis.

On to Niagara Falls!

Playing where in Macy's is my wife...

I was hiding in the Statbucks half-balcony section watching my wife look at purses and every now and then look up to see if I were around. The best was when I started texting her and she couldn't find me. She started getting frusterated with me when I began saying if I liked this purse or that purse that she was looking at via text and she could seem to fugue out how I was doing that...

She is so much fun... Love her deeply and dearly!