MooPig Church of the Beach :: "Meet the Church Hoppers"

Church Health
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 25, 2013  |  Bryan TX

MooPig Wisdom doesn't like to toot its own horn ... well, on second thought, we do toot our own horn ... a lot ... but we see NATGEO TV has used our idea for yet another reality show. We would have called it Church Report Card ... but they have enlisted three hunky men to gather information about a struggling church out there. Then they propose a fixer up plan, and go through the process of what amounts to storefront architectural re-hab. They call it CHURCH RESCUE TEAM, featuring the Church Hoppers.

MooPig Church of the Beach Department thinks it is pretty cool now that NATGEO has filmed its first few episodes. Our guys went out and printed some T-shirts and caps with "Church Report Card" on them. Then they issued this statement:

"As you might have known, we advertise MooPig is enemy of bombast. However, it is revolutionary that we at MooPig A-and-E with unanimous aplomb decide that bombast does in fact have a place in our simulations of Church of the Beach formats. We have come to realize that bombast in its rawest form serves skeletal ambitions like War and Faith. So, bombast is our friend in this newest buona-venture, as ludicrous as that is."

Maybe someday our editorial groups will sync with modern media in a MooPig Reality Show; like a barbecue or something.

Meet the Church Hoppers | National Geographic Channel: "Unfortunately, running a successful parish isn't as easy as just gathering your neighbors in praise. Forty percent of new churches fail within the first year and eighty percent go under in five years. "

EXCERPT
" ... So what happens when a church is failing to thrive? Enter the Church Hoppers. The team is comprised of Kevin “Rev Kev” Annas, Anthony “Gladamere “ Lockhart, and Jerry “Doc” Bentley. Rev Kevin is the resident business guru, who applies his entrepreneurial experience to churches' finances and operations to make sure they're running smoothly. Gladamere is the crew's sales and marketing specialist, helping refine churches' brands and promote their message to the community. Doc is a counselor, motivational speaker and the Hoppers' Church Systems Analyst, getting to know each individual parish's faith to help the church meet its goals. ..."

'via Blog this'

COMMENTS from Site:

Chris Gragg 6 days ago

"Rev Kev"...hahahaha! They had to add an extra sewage treatment plant in Caldwell county for all the people he crapped out of money. I hope he's had a change of heart, but his history sure doesn't leave him with a good testimony in running a "church business". I believe he may have a better career as a politician considering he has never run a business effectively. Personally, I wouldn't let him get his hands on my monopoly game money. NatGeo you guys need to do some background checks before buying a reality show.


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http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/church-rescue/articles/meet-the-church-hoppers/
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2010/04/moopigs-church-of-beach-easter-eve-2010.html

Bill Moyers: "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 5, 2011 | Bryan TX

Bill Moyers: "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy" | Truthout:

EXCERPT  | "... "So if belief in the “the dogma of democracy” seems only skin deep, there are reasons for it. During the prairie revolt that swept the Great Plains a century after the Constitution was ratified, the populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease exclaimed: “Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules.”"
Why New York’s Zuccotti Park is filled with people is no mystery. Reporters keep scratching their heads and asking: “Why are you here?” But it’s clear they are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied the country. And that’s why in public places across the country workaday Americans are standing up in solidarity. Did you see the sign a woman was carrying at a fraternal march in Iowa the other day? It read: “I can’t afford to buy a politician so I bought this sign.” ... "

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http://truth-out.org/how-did-happen/1320278111

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A lot of Arabs and Muslims are Normal; They like to Jive just like anyone else

Campbell Brown has written her latest commentary just in time for S*[excrete]*t Extra Hard on Arabs and Muslims Month.

Of course, Campbell Brown probably didn't mean to contribute and she may never know that she did. But add her latest piece, "So what if Obama were a Muslim or an Arab?" to the growing collection of arguments along that same line:

"There's nothing wrong with being Arab or Muslim. A lot of Arabs and Muslims are normal; they want to live just like anyone else. But make no mistake, Obama is NOT Arab and he's NOT Muslim. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But you should definitely know that Obama is a Christian. Which also means that he's not Arab."

Top 25 Reasons Why Obama's NOT an A-rab!

By Programmer Buydatti | KAOBOBfest: October 14, 2008

25. He doesn't have a mustache

24. He does not smell like Old Spice or dollar store cologne

23. When he plays basketball, he actually passes

22. Michelle is not his cousin -- nor was their marriage arranged through family, a friend, or a website

21. He did not use his father's convenience store money to buy his first Benz

20. He only has two kids

19. He actually meant it when he said Mona Khalidi is a good cook

18. His full name is not Obama Obama

17. He does not have a Sri Lankan maid

16. He does not pronounce his home state's name as "Illi-noise"

15. His wife doesn't wear a burka

14. He has a Yahoodi (Jewish) first name

13. He clearly does not have overt contempt for anyone who is not Arab

12. Although he does pronounce "Pakistan" more accurately than McCain, he doesn't call it "Bakistan"

11. He's black. as defined by the US government, A-rabs are white

10. He did not dance and pass out candy on 9-11

9. He's a candidate for the President of the United States of America

8. He has not cursed anyone's mother's sexual organs while calling her a whore, or asked God to destroy McCain's religion, father, or home

7. Actually, he's Phoenician...

6. He aspires to become President through the democratic process

5. He would have won Michigan in the primaries, even without being on the ballot

4. He didn't yell at all during the debates

3. He's actually wining the Jewish vote

2. He's racist against A-rabs

1. He has "hope"

[Tarboush Tip: Will, Fayyad, Emily, May, Fadi, Diana, Quiqui, Me]

POLIMON Gotta Vote em All Barack Obama '08

T.O.E. -- Theory of Everything

Opinions / Editorials on Sunday
by Pat Darnell

I think, and am of the opinion, our Universe tends toward order. Its tendency is to be in a state of potential category, within a vacuum, reduced as a lowest common denominator. In the end our universe is a very massive single point of all forces bundled in a conserved material-energy orbiting in singularity, very ordered and very ambiguous.

I am posting to suggest Life in our universe on the other hand opposes universe rules, and is an abnormal state of affairs. For life to exist it has to be covered by forces that are ultimately unnatural to our universe's physics and combinations of materials, energies and methods. Life is exception to the rules.

In this theory is my discovered reason for existence that baffles most. We mathematize our realm that sustains our life, we try to balance the equation, when in fact we are not a balanced equation. Chaos actually is the reason for life. Water for instance in its natural state is a solid: it is ice. Methane in its natural state is a cloud hanging in a climate of swirling gases that can be found plentifully in gas giants' atmospheres. Life in its natural state is actually dormant, riding pieces of planets in vast space, hanging in there for chaos to rule.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/04may_methaneblast.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/02/01/global_warming_methane_could_be_far_worse_than_carbon_dioxide.htm

This opinion reverses traditional thinking of humans, as a converse argument. As humankind has for all its history sought to find life elsewhere manifest as itself, it has proven that itself is the exception of the rules of its universe.

Forces that pertain to human life sustained for any period of time on earth are: magnetic fields, water in liquid form at a specific ratio of 68%, and food chain in abundance. Besides physical phenomenon, is unseen spiritual forces, faith, hope and of course love. Faith is a force of life that pushes us to embark on our missions.

Okay now say you -- 'I have put too much out here, or I am asking too much for any one to accept a theory way too over-simplified.' "Don't be ridiculous!" you say. I had that opinion for most of my life. For humans to believe in the unseen, for humans to see their existence as based on chaos, rather than static relationships with nature, goes against all our invention.


I base this different way of looking at human coexistence on simple verse in brother John's good book: 3:16. "For God so loved the world, ... " It has come to my attention at fifty-two years age, what is really being said here has more to do with the efforts God has made in providing a "World" our Earth, and he loves this world a great deal.

Also, in final regards, God so loves this creation World, he gives and gives and gives. All who believe in things he, she, or we cannot see will soon receive the whole picture with eyes and ears and feelings previously unavailable while existing on Earth.

Yes, yet another gift for us to receive: talk about the 'Energizer' never stops going... someone sure needs to advertise a universe that keeps on existing, and the Creator of it who nevers quits giving.

I call this getting real. It seems others tend to think the obsession in life is the love of life, I think it has more to do with the gifts we are given while alive, and how we appreciate them. Love is not obsession. Love is patient, kind and not jealous. There is no set of law against love and the rules that pertain to it. There are laws against obsession... called restraining orders!

My reaction to my own discovery is of late I ask those things that have been taken from my family and friends, and enemies in life, be returned in full to all of them. In this conservative prayer of mine, I have hope and I will imagine those who may have lost their gifts in earlier chaotic years of their lives are receiving blessings later.

Such as: later years of a long life on Earth should be a blessing. You will be able in my imagined second time around to appreciate benefit of a Universe entirely fashioned to sustain you, by surrounding your place on Earth with material-energy and spiritual blessings: built entirely for you to love as the Creator loves it.

In conclusion: My theory is this -- 'the entire Universe that expands around Earth is actually all built just for us, so we may receive the blessing of living here.' God's efforts are immense in this cause: For it is written in scripture God so loved the World , that would be Earth -- He has given his only son, so any who believes in this gift has a generous portion of life yet to live, even after one's departure from present conditions on Earth.