Pot luck lunch.

Bring a pot of food.

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A message to all members of Help-Portrait Community

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Help-Portrait Community Happy New Year to you and yours! We hope the new year has gotten off to a fantastic start. We’ve tallied the numbers, done the analysis and have posted the 2011 stats on our blog. Here’s a quick overview. For the full details, click here. 67,927 portraits given 4,984 photographers 8,793 volunteers 56 countries If you’d like to post this on your off-site group pages, please use the following URL that we’ve set up for tracking purposes: http://hp.cta.gs/2011stats As we said on our blog, without you, the community, Help-Portrait is just an idea. With you, we are a movement of people who are bringing smiles, hope and encouragement to TENS of thousands across the world. From the Help-Portrait leadership and the tens of thousands of people that have received a portrait, thank you! —Jeremy and the Help-Portrait team

By Shane Claiborne here

http://www.redletterchristians.org/author/shane-claiborne-2-2/

12. Do something really nice – that no one knows about.

11. Spend more money on other people than I spend on my self. Love my neighbor as I love myself. And love myself as I love my neighbor.

10. Laugh often… especially at advertisements that try to convince me that I must buy more stuff in order to be happy.

9. Learn a new life skill – like carpentry, pottery, or canning vegetables. Teach someone else I life skill I know how to do.

8. Love a few people well, remembering that what is important is not how much we do but how much love we put into doing it.

7. Write a letter to someone I need to say thank you to. Write another letter to someone I need to ask to forgive me.

6. Track down a critic or someone I disagree with and take them to lunch. Listen to them.

5. Compliment someone I have a hard time complimenting… and mean it.

4. Choose life. Do something regularly to interrupt the patterns of injustice – do something to end violence, bullying, war, capital punishment and other mean and ugly things.

3. Pause before every crisis and ask “will this matter in 5 years?”

2. Get outside often and marvel at things like fireflies and shooting stars. And regularly get my hands into the garden… so when I type on the computer I can see dirt under my fingernails.

1. Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

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Thanks Lucas for drawing my attention to it.

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WithoutWalls Cohort will be spending Saturday 10th December 2011 taking portraits of the beautiful people of Belfast.

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