One Generation To Another

My firstborn son Uriah turns 11 today!!!

Pictured here doing his next big thing-homework.

Lounging on Grandpas chair, sitting on the bench, b-ball game in 2nd grade.

Jamming on Grandpas guitar, on Riverside

The full set here

By Daniel Arellano

This week I’m a couple of days late on posting weekly web-cast so, today you get a double video.

Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren recently sat down with presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama to ask tough questions on subjects Americans care deeply about. View the entire interview at www.GodTube.com/SaddlebackForum.

Both candidates respond to the question, ” What does a Christian mean to you?”

Related: God Tube offers the whole segment of Saddle Backs Presidential Forum here

Note: If you watch the whole interview, Obama spends a lot of time looking down.

Something didn’t sound right when I met up with Malachi (My Son) roaming the church/school grounds. He said, “I’m the star of the day, and teacher Jolene said I don’t have to take nap time and I could come to moms office and….”

Being the dad/pastor/ authority figure at the school, I had never heard of such “star of the day” program at RCA. A bit suspicious of my sons know hows and wanderings away from class, walked over to Malachi’s class and asked his teacher to educate me on this “star of the day” privilege. Well, it was so, and my son Malachi was the recipient of his teachers very special award only for today for being a honor student. Please forgive me!!!!

Upon returning to moms office, Malachi says to me, ” I told you so.”

Cast your vote.

Here’s your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our
faith in God, as a nation. NBC is taking a poll on “In God We Trust” to
stay on our American currency. Please do it right
away, before NBC takes this off the web page. Poll is still open so you
can vote.

Cast your vote here

Dear Friend,

If you have tried to email me for (web-clients) web-purposes,web-updates, just to chat, or have forwarded me junk mail; i.e. funnies, etc,. You may have noticed that your mail has been rejected by my rcf email account server because my in-box is way beyond full.

I have since then cleaned up my mailbox, which has been long over-due. So, feel free to send me some mail. if all else fails you can reach me here.

Adios.

UYWI09 Date now available

For those of you who pack up the kids, pack up the volunteers, and fly, bus, or drive to the luxurious campus at Azusa Pacific university each year; this is news you will want to hear as you prepare and budget for 2009. UYWI09 will happen at APU on May 14-16, 2009. So now you can lock those dates, check the airlines, lock hotel accommodations, begin planning which of your volunteers you will want to include (and which to exclude) on this event, and look for discounts, early bird rates, and even terradactyl rates to save some dough on this amazing event.

If you would like to join Panch and I for this youth workers conference please get in touch…as we will start making arrangements to attend in May.

+Related: View our photo diary from this years conference here.

This Podcast features Pastor/Leader Efrem Smith-
Message: A Place of Community from UYWI.ORG 2005 General Session on how the church and people of God can embrace and provide a true place of community to this generation of young people.

Courtesy: UYWI Resources

 

 A Place of Community: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Last night I reported that I had lost all content. It was true, but now Im back and all is a o.k. Seems like all has been fixed.

For the future…I have backed up all this web-blogs content and files. 

 
Well, just a 5 minute call, with less than a minute wait-time my web-host provider was able to recover all from previous backup files on the main server. By the way, Bluehost has a great customer service.

As promised, I found the picture of my grandparents Antonio and Celia.

KidWorks model coming to a neighborhood near you in Espanola, NM. If you are interested an would like to help plan and organize some support for a center please contact me asap.

heres a great video to help paint a picture for you of what this could look like.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the U.S. drinking age, which is among the highest in the world.

“This is a law that is routinely evaded,” said John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont who started the organization. “It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and unfair and discriminatory.”

Read more here

This blogger (HolyCoast.com)adds some humor to his insight:

This is the same kind of misguided liberal logic that tells us that we have to give high school kids condoms because they’re going to have sex anyway.

Alcohol on college campuses is a huge problem already as we witnessed firsthand last year when my daughter’s roommate was kicked out of the dorm for multiple alcohol and drug violations. She was 18 and apparently these wise college presidents would rather her alcohol abuse was legal. Instead of having to sneak around, she could have just walked in with her bottles of booze and drank herself to insensibility.

In California the drinking age is 21, so it doesn’t really matter what the college president thinks since he’ll be bound by that law either way. Of course, he could just choose to have his police department ignore violations.

You know, some kids are going to cheat, too. Why shouldn’t we give them all A’s?

Contest.

If you can name all these past, and present students from The Rock Christian Academy.

Simply hit the “comments” and name the students, extra points for those in the background.

Update: heres the original picture

Jeremy Del Rio at the Street Schools Network Annual Conference (8/1/08). Explore how Daniel internalized a prophet’s call for justice.

Courtesy: Jeremy Del Rio

Thanks for sharing the link J!

 

 Empowering Students to be Justice Workers [45:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

by Rudy Carrasco- Urban on Ramps, Pasadena CA
Fri, May 19, 2006
When teaching youth about economic justice , we must be careful to teach how to invest as well as how to protest. Most urban youth have little to say about investment in things that can truly change a young person’s circumstance. Come reflect on the protest/invest paradigm.

Courtesy: Urban on Ramps/Jeremy Del Rio

Protest and Invest

 

 Protest and Invest [72:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

By Daniel:

Update: The Forum is scheduled for tonight and is to air on CNN at 6:pm MDT.

Read the CNN Report as written here

This next Saturday, August 16, 2008, I will interview Senators John McCain and Barack Obama for an hour each at our nationally televised Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency. The following morning I will be preaching a message entitled “The Kind of Leadership America Needs.”

I’d value your opinion and feedback. What question would you ask BOTH candidates if you had the chance? Please frame your question in a way that it could be asked of both candidates (to be fair) and email it to me at pastorrick@saddleback.net. This would be a great help to me.

We’re in this together. I also ask you to pray I’ll have the necessary wisdom. This will be an historic event. Never have the two candidates been interviewed by a pastor in a church. It will be a great day for all churches, showing the importance of the local church being at the civil table.

I thank God he has called you to serve Him. For the global glory of God.

Rick
Rick Warren
Saddleback Church

What he (Rick Warren) will ask them.

On Thursday, August 14, 2008 was my baby’s Malachi E. Arellano first day of school at The Rock Christian Academy. He is pictured here with with his classmates. Class of 2020

View the complete set Malachi’s day of school here. (Link coming soon)

My dear Blogger friends,

I am having some trouble with this blog. can anyone offer some help?

Please email me with any how to’s, or if you experienced any of this.

_My dates and header on the blog are not appearing when I hit post.