Anne Marie Miller

Author: Anne Marie Miller

  • prayer for dominican trip

    it is 3:40 am, also known as the ungodly hour, also known as i need some red bull, also known as five minutes before i am leaving to meet the team from cross point at the airport.

    it is early.

    but, i am excited…i feel privileged to take another out-of-the-country trip into a land which will stretch me far beyond my comfort zone. humbled at the chance to serve some with some amazing people.

    the dominican is not far away. a quick trip to miami, then right into santiago. we’ll be arriving there about the same time you’re eating lunch.

    your prayers are so needed for this trip. we have a pretty large group (26) going and with luggage and some camera equipment and well, just 26 people, logistics can get hairy.

    please pray specifically for…

    –our health & safety.     this one always makes me nervous. especially after my roommate in africa had to go to the hospital in uganda while we were there in february. my asthma has been flaring up lately too…so yes, please cover us and some in this area.

    –logistics. sometimes, luggage gets lost. it’s not the end of the world, but can distract us nonetheless. it was a miracle nobody’s luggage got lost with all the connecting flights we had to africa. please pray for smooth logistics.

    –hearts. most importantly, our hearts. there are a lot of first-timers going on this trip and going to a new country and doing hard work out in the sun, away from comforts and family can do many different things to a person. please pray that we will keep our hearts open and flexible to ministry.

    thanks everyone…i’ll update when we have some down time, and hopefully, i’ll be able to send short updates via twitter…so you can follow me that way too.

  • The Waitress is Watching

    This is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the Catalyst monthly online magazine thingy…

    Catalyst Magazine Anne JacksonEvidently, this little freestanding building was the place Nashville?s best comfort food called home. Tucked away in a residential area with limited and awkward parking, I decided, after several recommendations from friends, to explore what this cozy little caf? had to offer. I moved to Nashville at the end of June, and finding delectable hole-in-the-wall restaurants is one of our favorite hobbies.

    A waitress with frizzy blonde hair appeared. She seemed older than her fifty years, with deep wrinkles and a posture of a woman who has spent most of her life carrying food to hungry customers. Her southern accent was thick as she took our order. When she returned with our rolls and butter, she grinned as she asked us a question that caught us completely off guard.

    [read the rest of the article here…i hope you enjoy it!]

  • one person makes a difference

    i will be the first to admit: i can be pretty self-absorbed. i don’t think about how many things i consume or throw away in a day, a month, or a year. after all, it doesn’t seem like very much. i’m just one person.

    artist chris jordan has some stunning pieces of art to represent production and consumption in america. (disclaimer: some of the photos could be considered graphic in nature, but not in a smutty way).

    here is an example of one of his prints. it represents the 410,000 paper coffee cups used in the USA every fifteen minutes. (39,360,000 per day, if you were wondering).

    Coffee Cups

    here it is in a detail view:

    Detail

    anyway, i thought his artwork was extremely worthy of passing on. click here to view his site.

  • Catalyst Road Trip in Nashville

    friday, pete and i had the amazing opportunity to meet up with the guys from the catalyst road trip. if you’re not familiar with catalyst, well, you need to be. [read more about catalyst and the catalyst road trip]. if you’ve been around here for any amount of time, you probably know that i’m a bit of a conference cynic. catalyst is much, much more than a conference, and has totally won my heart!

    Catalyst Road Trip

    anyway, after some fine dining at star bagel, we took them to cross point to show them what it’s like to have church inside an old baptist church building…we talked about blogging, blogging, and well, blogging.

    (by the way, holy cow has my hair gotten HUGE since moving to nashville. the humidity here is nuts! why hasn’t someone told me??! big hair rivals having something between your teeth!)

    i’ll let you read more about what talked about here on their blog, but i have to say, it was such an honor connecting with these guys.

    have you ever been to catalyst? are you going this year? if you are…i’d love to connect. i’ll be there doing some undercover spy work.

  • Mad Church Disease for $11.55

    I just noticed my book has dropped in price to just a little over ELEVEN DOLLARS! I had no idea until I just logged in and saw it tonight.

    What the heck? A hard cover for not even twelve bucks? The Amazon and Zondervan people must have gone crazy.

    Even though the book doesn’t ship until until February, remember, Amazon has a price lock! If you order it now, you lock in that price. And I honestly have no idea how long it will stay at $11.55. It’s kind of like a slot machine. But not.

    Just thought I’d let you guys know! Book pimping over for now! Have a great weekend.

  • my new favorite quote

    What is the point of neurotically skipping along the surface when all the beauty lies below?

    – Josh Waitzken

  • Donate Your Old Mobile Phones to Charity

    maybe you got an iPhone today, and maybe you got one last year. maybe you just have some old mobile phones sitting around your house. in any case, why not take a little time to help balance out the gadget refreshing world by donating your old phone to a good cause?

    here is one site that will allow you to send in your old phone and select one from a variety of charities to benefit from it.

    or

    another one to help soldiers overseas

  • ok, ok. i’ll get an iPhone

    when it does all this. well, almost all this…

    [[edit]] i had to take the video out because it kept locking up my blog. but it was funny…sorry.

    did you take the plunge? will you ever?

  • i couldn’t resist

    Hey, it's true

    ht: MPT