Big news in Bartlesville, OK. Extreme Home Makeover is in town this week and Oklahoma Wesleyan University is center stage. OKWU donated FIVE full-ride scholarships! They’re featured on the donor-page on the home builder’s website: extremesimmons.com
The family they are helping is a pastor’s family. The pastor passed away back in April and left his wife and 10 children (5 still at home) pretty much homeless. They gathered enough money to purchase a plot of land and two trailers. Extreme Home Makeover is obviously going to change their lives!
Some great OKWU information is here. As well as a daily journal from their perspective!
A news article from an Oklahoma news station is here.
Kory also forwarded the memo from Dr. Everett Piper – OKWU’s president – that he sent to all the faculty. That is in .pdf format and can be downloaded here (19k).
Tuesday, January 24th marked the release of P.O.D.’s latest album release, “Testify”. I purchased this album on iTunes Tuesday morning and have been listening to it everyday on the car CD player as well as the computer. 13-tracks make the album “worth its weight”, including two colaborative efforts from another favorite of mine – Matisyahu! The iTunes version gave me the music video for “Goodbye For Now” which is getting much air-play on MTV and the behind-the-scenes “making of” video. Also, a 51-minute “artist commentary” makes its way onto the iTunes purchase. I listened once to the commentary and got some interesting insight into the making of the album as well as where P.O.D. finds themselves on their spiritual journey. The commentary is an honest inside-look into who P.O.D. is and does well to show P.O.D.’s human-ness.
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Notably the “World’s Greatest Band”, U2 has already rocked my living room on numerous occasions via this little wonder.
