without walls cohort

meeting this week 15th Jan 2011 2pm

stuart brown — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:04:17 +0000

Pot luck lunch.

Bring a pot of food.

The 2011 stats are in…

stuart brown — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:51:27 +0000

Network Email

Help-Portrait Community

A message to all members of 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

2012 rhythm quarter one

stuart brown — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:49:30 +0000

12 hopes for 2012.

stuart brown — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:15:07 +0000

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.

Some inspiration for the year ahead.

stuart brown — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:15 +0000

Thanks Lucas for drawing my attention to it.

Help-Portrait 2011.

stuart brown — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:04:34 +0000

Help-Portrait Belfast 2011

stuart brown — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:58:52 +0000

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

up

stuart brown — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:44:12 +0000

Help Portrait, Belfast 2011

stuart brown — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:02:40 +0000

gnarly tree.

stuart brown — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:07:52 +0000