The resources (valued at over $1000) given away included:
1 All Access Pass to the Origins Event on July 24, 2010 in downtown L.A. (valued at $129) for Joshua from CA!
Untamed by Alan and Debra Hirsch The 10 winners include: Karen from OH, Sherry from CA, Garrett from AL, Sabrina from Ontario, Justin from TN, Janet from CA, Smitty from KY, Isaiah from KY, Karen from IL, and Matt from IL
Protest and Investby Rudy Carrasco The 5 winners of the book and iPad version include: Steve from NV, Daniel from FL, Josh from NV, Jerry from TX, and Kelly from CA.
Living Dangerously by Shawn Anderson The 10 winners include: Justin from NC, Daniel from USA, Dawn from CA, Josh from IL, Kurt from CA, Caleb from WA, Bryon from MI, Brett from MI, Jeff from CA, and Gary from CA.
Josh Fox’s new cd Radiant The 5 winners include: Molly from MN, Angie from CA, Brad from WA, Rowel from CA, and Gary from NC.
Exponential by Dave and Jon Ferguson The 10 winners include:Damon from IN, Jenni from TX, Lori from TX, John from WV, Rowdy from OK, Mark from Australia, Brad from VA, Creighton from KS, Martin from KY, and Colby from AZ.
Organic Outreach for Ordinary Peopleby Kevin Harney The 10 winners include: Wally from MI, Troy from CA, Joshua from CA, Chip from MA, Travis from FL, Lon from Canada, Peter from the U.K., Judy from WA, Mario from Canada, and Renee from CA.
Stand Against the Wind by Erwin McManus The 10 winners include: Kristine from TX, Kyle from MO, David from IL, Cline from MD, Clay from WA, Rudy from TX, Betty from MI, Kendall from NC, Chuck from VA, and Adam from VT.
See the Future Face of the Church & Activism at Origins
The Church in America is changing, and Origins is at the forefront.
Origins is a worldwide network of leaders who follow Jesus thriving on the diversity and creativity growing in the Church. It’s an externally-focused network of creatives, business leaders, activists, educators, and leaders that exist to love humanity and serve the mission of Jesus.
If you want to understand and experience the evolving face of Christianity, one that represents the diversity, passion, and creativity found in the ways of Jesus, Origins’ inaugural event is the place to find it. It is an active- not passive-event.
On Friday, July 23, attendees will serve residents of Los Angeles through practical service projects. They will partner with leading organizations in the city to serve the poor on Skid Row and learn how to facilitate community care from city leaders in a tour of Los Angeles.
On Saturday, July 24, in Club Nokia at L.A. Live, Origins will gather at its inaugural event to be insprired, renewed, and moved toward collaboration by leading thinkers in numerous fields of thought. Just a few of them include:
Erwin McManus is the catalyst behind Awaken, McManus Studios, and Mosaic and is widely known as an author, speaker, activist, filmmaker, and innovator who specializes in the field of developing and unleashing personal and organizational creativity, uniqueness, innovation and diversity.
Margaret Feinberg was recently named one of the ’30 Emerging Voices’ who will help lead the church in the next decade by Charisma magazine and one of the ’40 under 40’ who will shape Christian publishing by Christian Retailing. She has written more than two dozen books and Bible studies including the critically-acclaimed “The Organic God”
Scott Harrison is the founder of charity: water, an organization committed to bringing clean and safe water to over 1 billion people in the world. His work has been featured in over 300 media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX news.
The Origins Project is a network meant to spur activity, love and service. The inaugural event is an essential primer for anyone trying to understand the current Christian generation and an invitation to join in a movement changing the world.
As part of the Mosaic Alliance, the core leaders (levels 2 and 3) get together monthly for a conference call with effective practitioners. If you are already a part of the Mosaic Alliance (levels 2 and 3), be sure to join us. To find out more about connecting with us, go to www.mosaicalliance.com.
Refine your leadership with other cutting edge leaders, and create the future through global partnerships.
March 31 at 1pm (PST) with Rick Yamamoto and Neil Nakamoto Topic: Maximizing Your Strengths and Your Church
Strengths Profile: Ideation, Strategic, Relator, Input, Belief Rick Yamamoto has the unique ability of looking through data, extracting the critical elements, developing the best alternative or new alternative for action. He has applied this ability for more than three decades in the financial industry. He currently helps the world’s largest pension funds discover hidden investment talent. Rick’s passion is to help organizations understand and realize the potential of their leaders and members. Rick has developed the perception matrix, operational preference and talent spelunking tools to help people uncover their unique abilities and understand their exceptional performance patterns.
Strengths Profile: Individualization, Maximizer, Relator, Responsibility, Woo Neil Nakamoto has the unique ability of understanding the distinctive qualities of each person, discovering their interests and passions and then connecting them with someone else in the world that will help them on their journey to greatness. He focuses on unleashing the talents of others through his leadership of Mosaic’s mentoring process.
April 14th at 10am (PST) with Jon Tyson Topic: Church Planting in Urban Centers
Jon Tyson is lead pastor of Trinity Grace Church in New York City. Trinity Grace is a network of neighborhood parish churches committed to joining God in the renewal of all things, currently with churches on the Upper West and Upper East Sides, in Chelsea and in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Jon lives in Manhattan with his wife Christy and their two children.
May (details coming soon) with Erwin McManus Topic: Q&A Erwin Raphael McManus is an author, speaker, activist, filmmaker and innovator who specializes in the field of developing and unleashing personal and organizational creativity, uniqueness, innovation and diversity. Erwin also serves as the primary communicator and cultural architect of Mosaic in Los Angeles. Erwin is a native of El Salvador, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Southwestern Theological Seminary. He and his wife Kim live in Los Angeles have two children, Aaron and Mariah, and a foster daughter Paty.
Description: We can spend our whole lives trying to satisfy the one insatiable part of our being, our soul craving. Our capacity for spiritual experience both proves our need for something greater than ourselves and leaves us wanting when we fill it with anything but God.
Soul Cravings is a powerful, down-to-earth exposition that interprets our need for intimacy, meaning, and destiny as common sense apologetics pointing to the existence of and our need for God. The book will deeply stir the reader to consider and chase after the spiritual implications of their soul’s deepest longings.
LOS ANGELES, CA “Bury me with a beer and cigarettes.” That funeral request, made by Gabe Trevino’s grandfather, inspired “Casket,” one of the finalists in the Doritos competition for a Super Bowl commercial.
For years Erwin McManus, a passionate storyteller and pastor of Mosaic in Los Angeles, has been challenging people to develop their creativity. He also encourages an outreach style that engages people, who do not know Jesus, in the areas of their interests. So, when Kevin T. Willson heard about the Doritos contest, he mentioned it to his pastor. Because Erwin had recently started Boy and Rocket Production Company, they decided to enter their first “create-a-commercial” competition and began pulling together a team, primarily from Mosaic, that included Gabe. Out of twenty-five original ideas, his real-life experience captured their imaginations.
In their entry for the fourth annual Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” challenge, the “deceased” planned his own funeral so he could lie undisturbed in a casket while munching Doritos and watching football. But the service doesn’t exactly go according to plan. A humorous upset catapulted this commercial into the top six finalists and gave its creators $25,000.00 plus tickets to Super Bowl XLIV. From a luxury suite at the Sun Life Stadium in South Florida, McManus and Willson (the Casket’s director) will watch the New Orleans Saints face off with the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday February 7th. That’s also when they’ll find out if their commercial made it into the top three. If it does, “Casket” will be aired on television during the game.
That distinction would signify that this team reached their goal. “We
After a football fan fakes his own death to get out of work, his coffin and picture take center stage at the funeral
wanted to do something so inspiring, so high-quality, and so creative that we would earn the right to be heard,” said McManus.
The author of many books, including Wide Awake and Soul Cravings, he believes that “the imagination is God’s gift of creativity to humanity. It is the one way you can see the ideal, go places you’ve never been, step into experiences you’ve never known. In your imagination you have unlimited resources, unlimited capacity, unlimited range of influence. In some ways, in our imaginations we are most like God.”
He adds, “Unfortunately the material for our imagination is primarily filtered through our hearts. When our hearts are separated from God, our imaginations can move to tremendous corruption. But when our hearts are joined to God, our imaginations can be the birthplace of the dreams of God for our lives.”
Very much alive, the ‘deceased’s’ enthusiasm upsets the casket, exposing the extent to which he went to fulfill his fantasy. A friend (and ‘mourner’) tries to cover the scheme, by jumping to his feet and proclaiming, ‘It’s a miracle!’
“Casket” is simply a tool for initiating relationships with individuals who might not otherwise be interested in finding out more about biblical faith. By using football, Doritos, and entertainment to stand on common ground, people can see creativity in action.
Using this poplar medium also demonstrates McManus’s belief that “the church can become the place where the great artists of our time paint their first strokes and great musicians sing their first notes. The church can become the place where the great thinkers and the great scholars and the great writers emerge. The church can become the environment where the future’s poets and film directors, dancers and doctors, grow up in community and learn that their talents are a gift from God.”
This commercial is a first step in what McManus and Willson hope is a much bigger journey. They want to do even more “to inspire people to faith.” Should their commercial finish in the top three, the cash prize (up to $1,000,000.00) could certainly help.
Unfortunately, the writer and/or guys they interviewed outside of Mosaic gave them 3 false impressions. 1. We’re not a megachurch. 2. Mosaic did not actually make the commercial, but most of those who did met and serve at Mosaic. 3. The story is definitely not a light-hearted spoof of the resurrection of Jesus.
Erwin was asked by the AP: “What is the subliminal message of the commercial?”. He responded: “Eat Doritos.”
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Image from "Casket"
My friends from Mosaic include: Executive Produced by Erwin McManus Directed by Kevin T. Willson Written by Gabe Trevino Produced by Dawn Asher, Brian Roth, Brian Han, and David Groom Edited by Stephen Yao
Through Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul, Erwin reminds us that wisdom is the ability to connect cause and effect. Wise people may look like they can predict the future, but in reality they are in tune with this connection between cause and effect.
Listen to this prediction at a recent Mariners game. The broadcaster has obviously done his scouting of the player and the pitcher. He knows the batter hits home runs off of fastballs. He also seems to know that the pitcher tends to throw fastballs on a 3-1 count.
Now, the rest of his prediction is just plain spooky!
Thanks for joining us for the online release party of my new book Not Like Me: A Field Guide for Influencing a Diverse World!
1 All Access Pass to the Origins Event on July 24, 2010 in downtown L.A. (valued at $129) for Joshua from CA!
Untamed by Alan and Debra Hirsch The 10 winners include: Karen from OH, Sherry from CA, Garrett from AL, Sabrina from Ontario, Justin from TN, Janet from CA, Smitty from KY, Isaiah from KY, Karen from IL, and Matt from IL
Protest and Invest by Rudy Carrasco
Josh Fox’s new cd Radiant
Organic Outreach for Ordinary People by Kevin Harney
Stand Against the Wind by Erwin McManus
