I think the world of Michael Trent who many simply know as The Church Bartender. Here is a short conversation we had at The Idea Camp on the Dirty Church. Here is a post by Charles Lee, “Is Your Church Dirty”. To contact and hire Michael visit his main site Third Place Consulting.

You’ve heard it from me before, “housing programs were started, feeding programs were started, a farmer gave 40 acres of land all because YOU supported InvisiblePeople.tv”.

Today walking to lunch I asked Mike Rusch from Cobblestone Project what exactly happened in Northwest Arkansas this last July.

It’s probably not news to most of you that I love the movie Lord Save Us from Your Followers. This summer as I drove across the country I yelled at every stop that you all need to support this movie. What you may not know is Lord Save Us was the sponsor who offered to help before I committed to actually make the tour. Without their financial assistance I would have never said “yes” to 11,263 miles.

But as luck and the economy would have it the LSU team lost an investor so they were never able to fulfill their commitment. It was actually a scary time for me because by the time I was notified I had made my own commitments to Ford and a few others. One might say I stepped out in faith, but the truth is I didn’t have a choice. I had to get in the car and start driving.

I say all that for two reasons. First is the FTC’s new disclosure law starts Dec 1st and to this date Lord Save Us has only given me a T-shirt. But what I want you to see here is that this movie is so spot on with truth that our American Church needs to hear I yelled and yelled and yelled more than any other sponsor even though I never received support. Why? Because I believe in this movie and the people behind it!

Today at The Idea Camp I shot a little video with Dan Merchant the man behind the movie. Cameo appearance by Greg Russinger of Laundry Love fame. Please support Lord Save Us!

Here is an old clip on YouTube about the movie (it’s better than the trailer on their site)

As I make invisiblepeople.tv happen there is so much that needs to be said, yet, because of time or whatever, I never get around to saying it. I hate to write so I am going to try something new. I am going to start shooting video. My goal is to use this blog to tell the ‘other’ story.

This really was a test as I walked to winter shelter training at Union Rescue Mission. Interesting, the nearest parking takes you through LA’s Flower District and there is a huge contrast between the beautiful smells only steps away from the madness and pain of Skid Row.

Although it is a test video I hope you take the challenge seriously and start working as a team to stamp out homelessness.

I will try and write more about my experience both personally and professional in the very near future but right now just wanted to get a few of the videos up. If you are new to my story 15 years ago I lived homeless in and around the area the Kodak Theater is located today so speaking there was very powerful. Also, Ann Marie [click here for her story] joined me thus making history at the Kodak and in the social media world.

140 Characters Conference Presents Mark Horvath: Making the Invisible Visible

not another twitter conference [link]

#140conf Round-up [from TechZulu]

more videos click below

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