en-au iHeart http://www.iheart.org/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:04:05 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:04:05 Copyright 2010 iHeart info@iheart.org info@iheart.org This week some of the I-HEART team are hanging out at Colour Conference 2010 - a women's conference in Sydney Australia that could be better described as a humanitarian movement.. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=387 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=387 Do you remember what life was like at the age of nine? At nine years old I would have been in year 4 at school. Most probably learning my time-tables and the names of the planets in outer-space. To be honest, I cant remember a lot about my life back then but after watching a video on the BBC news today I found my mind drifting back. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=386 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=386 For any of you who have been following Invisible Children's project with La Blogotheque and the Polyphonic Spree, we've got some BIG NEWS! YEASAYER is coming with us to UGANDA. That is, if we get funding in time. We just got word from the band that they are 100% in and committed. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=385 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=385 Remember our friend Jeremy from Help Portrait? - Well, post Haiti, he was on the ground using his craft with the idea of helping people. And you know, we LOVE that... http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=384 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=384 "After a week we shall just declare the area a mass grave" ... "We found some body parts, which we have decided not to count as a whole for now," said Musa Ecweru, the Minister for Disaster Preparedness, who was in the area. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=383 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=383 In the lead up to Easter, a certain "culture" is speaking our language. So... how could we not tell you about it (?!) - just in case you and your Church want to get involved! It's a phenomenon called SERVOLUTION. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=382 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=382 An earthquake followed by a tsunami has claimed 795 lives in Chile. This number is likely to increase. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=373 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=373 If you follow the news, it may seem like our world is getting trashed. IT IS. ...But we pray that the greatest disaster would NOT be our lack of response to those in need. http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=372 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=372 You realize it's not just a small emergency when the local government has to set up a morgue in the Airport to help identify the dead bodies. Flash flooding killed at least 42 people... http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=374 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=374 So you finish. You complete your grade, your course, maybe even graduate and move on to the next stage of life. You may even think for a brief minute that you are done learning, and then you join the club of those who realize the truth behind the saying “the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=371 http://i-heart.org/entry.php?intid=371