Have you reached your Potential?

I'm being playing around with the Social Network Application YoVille at Facebook , and it is really interesting how one million plus people play this game. The game was recently buyed by Zinga Inc and every day there is more and more people who decided to interact only trough a computer. Games are only an example of the future of social interaction for our current and next generations. The question is: What is this related to me? Well, I decided to build inside YoVille, a church... The game is for people to buy stuff and decorate their houses, but will all the stuff they sale there people has been creative enough to do more than decoration, so using the same elements they build a different kind of rooms to chat with others, so I created a Multisite Campus... (With chairs and a large screen) to talk to the YoVillians about our Internet Campus ( http://www.frclive.tv/ ) at Flamingo Road Church ... I'm not sure how is going to end... but at least will be fun. I'll be sharing...

All right Blogville, today I started a whole new blog that will be all about to have a live streaming video/audio experience. What is technically required? How to set it up? and more interesting nerdy gears... I named it http://www.livegears.net/ and I'll be having fun posting on how to create a Live Campus on the Internet using the current technology available... I'll be sharing my goals and the opportunity behind every new challenge for the new projects I'm involved in. So, take a peek and if you are not a nerd, I'll do my best to help you to understand the geek issues related with the magic's behind the scenes!

Christmas is almost here! and I'm tuning in to the Christmas spirit. I got this antenna hat to get a better perception of what's going on around. Christmas is all about what you want it to be. Do you want it to be about shopping? Do you want it to be about gifts? Do you want it to be about great food? Do you want it to be about generosity? Do you want it to be about hope, about faith, about love? The choice is yours. I'm going to make it great for my family, and about the greatest gift of love... About the Love of God and about his son Jesus. Merry Christmas to all my faithful readers. I hope of this Christmas celebration bring joy, love, hope, peace, health and prosperity to your life and the life of all your beloved ones. God Bless you!

Tonight, we officially launched our Internet Campus live from Cooper City Campus. We been working on the setup, moving the server, getting the lanes with the Audio and Video feed from the production room, setting up the lights, camera, cables, decoration, and everything trying to get it ready for today and launch it from the new studio. We got a successful launch. I just remember when we where having a conversation about a year ago, when Troy, our lead pastor dreamed about it, and Raul, our executive pastor, trusted me with the project. We started with a couple who recently moved from Cooper City to North Carolina and after few weeks we launched our first live transmission with an audience of 2 people. After that we researched, compared to other services, test, retest and the audience grown every week with more and more unique I.P.’s from all over the world. Today, we have an average weekend attendance of 1,000 unique IP’s every weekend, we have Brian Vasil as Campus pastor interacting...

9 years ago, I was having the most difficult time in my entire life. After a complete breakdown, I was ready to take my life on my own hands and God showed me his mercy and I knew for sure there was a real God. I remember my first kind of prayer was “All right, I understood. You want me to stay… I’ll stay here, but I don’t know what to do with my life… please show me the way, because I’m lost. Show me the path you want me to follow and I’ll do it. You want me to stay on this life, please, show me the way”. That was my first prayer… and the answer came to me. Few days later, He sent me an Angel on a shape of a woman. Some one with great patience, love and understanding that took care of that task and wisely she guided me to Christ, not inviting me to church or talking to me about Jesus, or judging me for my past actions… she just accepted me like I was… and prayed for me. Instead, she showed me Jesus on her daily actions, until finally I found Christ! My life was completely changed, tra...

“Don Quijote de la Mancha” is one of the greatest pieces of the Spanish Literature, it was written in the late XVI century by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, and it is considered as a corner stone of the novel writing. The first time I read this book I was 12 years old and I was captive by the romantic history of a Man who believed he was a “knight errant” with his armor bearer, Sancho Panza. All the history is about his dreams, his adventures and his errands. The first part of the book is funny and entertaining but the second part is more reflexive. Although the history is about “Don Quijote”, one of the reflexive characters is Sancho Panza, a man who always believed unconditionally the vision of his master, and no mater how crazy the venture looked; He was always there to support the Quijote's journeys. God gave to our Leader a vision to reach people all over the world to partner with them to reach their God's potential and to be “One church where you are" Today, at our st...

The Great Wall is the world's longest human-made structure, stretching over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles)[2] from Shanhai Pass in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. It is also the largest human-made structure ever built in terms of surface area and mass. Seeking information about the Chinese I found that they where the inventors of: Abacus Chinese Calculator Paper money Battens in sails Belt drive Blast furnace The cannon Cast iron Chain drive Chinese cuisine: Tofu, Ramen, Sushi Chinese clothing: Qipao, Hanfu Chopsticks Bituminous coke for the iron and steel industry Compass Crank, hand-operated Crossbow and repeating crossbow Escapement mechanism for clocks Exploding cannonball Fire Arrow Gunpowder Firearm Horse collar Hull compartments/bulkheads Kite Land mines Lottery Naval mines Noodles Paper Pendulum (Zhang Heng) Pound lock Printing (woodblock printing and movable type) Rockets: Fire Arrow, Multista...

One year ago, I met Deanna and Gonzalo, a young couple who was seeking wedding information, they where planning to get married. I gave them all the information, requirements and also we started a couple’s seminar that I usually give to the married couples. Marriage is the most important project on a humans life, is the fusion of two different elements onto a new one. Imagine this: You know in your heart that you want to be an architect, you love to design, you know that you have the potential to be not a good one, but a great one. You decided to go to the University fill out the application, sign your enrollment, and in that moment, get your diploma, you start looking for work, with your brand new title, they assign you to develop and build a nice complex… and you got all the enthusiasm, the feeling… but cero knowledge… after you got the project, you start studying and trying to accomplish the task at the same time… what will be the result? You’ll be lucky if you can get any progress ...

This week I started my GED writing course, and I just entered on the unknown world of grammar. I discover that there are many rules, different from Spanish, about Pronouns, Prepositions, Punctuation and more… and this is just the beginning. Since I started, I continued reading my books, but now I look the text from a different perspective. I star noticing the grammar and punctuation on my reading getting not just the content, but the grammar too. I slowed down my lecture, because now I’m more analytic. On the past, I was able to swallow a book on few hours, but now it is taking me more time to discover a hole new world that has been there always, but I was unable to look at it because my fast reading. To better explain this I'll use a Motorcycle example: If you are going from Miami to Tampa, you could make it in 2 hours on a Ninja Kawasaki ZX6-R or you can expend 4 and a half hours on a Harley Davidson... not just driving, but enjoying the road and the details around the way. Some ...

Well, today I got my results from last week’s test and today’s test. Reading: 92% at Level 12, so I passed! Math: 100% at level 12 also (Surprised me because I didn’t know how to divide fractions and I just guess the best answer), so passed too. Writing: 72% at level … 5 (Fifth grade), so I’ll start with the classes tomorrow focused on reading & writing because it is related. From this experience, I learned that one thing is to listen and understand, another is to speak but in order to write, you have to suck the culture in order to be able to express on paper. I remember my first trip to L.A. I was working for a production company and according to my understanding all people at LA, speak Spanish, true, except on the facility I visited… Not a single Spanish speaking people, even the janitor was Chinese… so I made my self understandable using signs and gestures, and a little English I learned from Middle School… and because I was a customer, they tried hard to understand me, so I st...

We finished preparing the pre-launch website for MyNakedPastor.com and everyone is exited about this new series. It has a spot to submit your video to enter the contest to go to the “Naked Party” (I just made my own video and submitted). I’m learning about the RSS, XML & Twitter feeds on the link we added there, because, believe it or not, I didn’t know what it was a feed (Yes an outdated nerd… that stinks) and it is very cool, so, now I don’t need to visit all my friend’s blog, just get the feed and I can read all the updates all at once, great. Another interesting thing is the naked tools, that allow every one to include the code piece required to invite some one or just to share the fun of MyNakedPastor.com on the Naked Tools section. Well and what is this, all about this series? There is the explanation also: “The lead pastor, Troy Gramling, at Flamingo Road Church is getting naked! No...not that kind of naked, a new kind of naked. A nakedness that isn’t embarrassing; a nakedn...

Today I start reading the Book "Peppermint-filled piñatas" by Eric Michael Bryant, and as soon as i start reading, I was unable to stop reading it... it make me think about how can we move our ministry to become relevant, responsive, and reflective of the global community. He approaches the subject on a very funny way, starting with "The art of woo", I laugh from the beginning, I think I'll be blogging about the book on my next few posts... MyNakedPastor.com series will be relevant, and I believe that will change the mind of many as we approach the different subjects that will be covered by this series. Now, I’ll continue reading…

Today was the first day at school for all of my princess, also my wife start working as montessory teacher. Yesterday it was the run to be ready for today, Paulina was seeking for the best set to impact others… if this belt is with this shoes and backpack, if the hair… Sarai was checking on her uniform, every one wants to be prepared to impact others. When I was on Mexico, I was good on writing. I had a newspaper column, I wrote every day, but since I’m in US, I stop writing, and the worst thing, is that it is hard for me to express completely my thinking on a piece of paper, this is why I made a decision today, I enrolled on a English Writing class. I’m not pretending to become a great writer from night to day, but instead, I can learn a little every day. Blogging will become a very important piece of my learning, because I’ll be able to see my improvements from now, so… now I’m also, back to school. Discipline and planning are together and never is too late to start learning somethin...

The MyNakedPastor.com Series is a great technical challenge, because for five weeks we will be broadcasting Troy Gramling 24 x 7. This weekend Garland’s message for the Antology series was “Today Matters” oh… and by the way, Today is Garland’s B-Day… (Happy Birthday Gar), and it was about to be prepared, it’s funny, I’m trying my daughters and my to read or at least try to listen the Maxwell’s book with the same name… why? Because is important to be prepared. I’m sure if you watch this archived teaching when become available, you’ll agree with me how important is to be prepared, because every moment today will build the success for tomorrow. I’m sure this upcoming series will be not only successful, but also will touch many people’s heart, helping them to reach their God’s potential. We have been working preparing this series for about two months at least. One of the weeks Troy will be broadcasted from his car, and on that week he will have a travel to Tampa. So I got all the techni...

Here is another picture with our characters of the “Mystery Picture”. A great president for US, Ronald Reagan. Today, while I was driving back from Tampa, I tried to discuss with Dora about the John Maxwell book “Today Matters” so we start listening the audio book, before the first chapter ended, Dora, was snoring… (Look at the picture taken with the Streaming Camera), and I was by myself with my thoughts as companion. Then I remember how on every staff meeting we have at the office, Troy always prepares a Q&A trivia contest to encourage the team work and to have a little fun. The questions are always related to TV, or Music or something and every time, when the contest starts I always thing… I’ll be prepared for next meeting… and I’m feel frustrated about not knowing about the culture and history where I live, then I just listen to Maxwell to said “When opportunity presents is too late to prepare for it” and that’s true, now for me is to late to gain years and years of culture, ...

The picture inquiring about the couple in a lake, is Ronald and Nancy Reagan... Later today I'll post another picture that I have at my office, now, on my way back to Cooper City :) Ohhh and the winner is: Troy Gramling :)

Finally arrived at Tampa at 11:40… what a great city. The trip was great. We have poor coverage only from mile 150 to Naples… but after that, we got good signal almost all the from Naples to Tampa. There was people following the beta test from Barranquilla, Colombia, Texas, Florida, Mexico… and two engineers, Doug and Freddy who where monitoring my signal all the way long. There was few glitches, but now I’m making notes about it to be ready for the real enchilada… I really believe that the next series will be a great opportunity to reach many people… so… be ready for www.mynakedpastor.com series… Good Night!

Today We will be broadcasting live from my car, as a beta testing for the next FRC Series: MyNakedPastor.com and I’m setting up the equipment ready: 1 MacBook 1 Verizon Wireless Card 1 USB Creative Camera 1 FireWire 3 CCD Panasonic Camera 1 External Antenna with 11 DB Gain 1 Power Inverter MSN Messanger Windows Media Encoder V.9 Running So, let’s see what we can blog from this trip. I’ll have some beta tester viewers that will be sharing later their thoughts about this exiting test. I cannot wait the new series to start. This will be something completely different; I have great expectations on this Troy’s great idea.

I was able to chat with Steve and here is an update: Total chaos south of Lima, 510 dead, 1500 injured, 80,000 homeless. We're filling up a minivan with supplies tomorrow, bound for Pisco, the hardest hit area, and we're also putting together an FRC Lima relief plan for the area hit by the earthquake. We may go to Pisco next week for 1-2 days to deliver relief supplies in person with FRC Lima people. I'm going to do another blog in the morning with an update. I'm also going to be teaching live this weekend at FRC Lima on "When Disaster Strikes." The highway to Pisco is heavily damaged, that is the problem in getting supplies in. They're using the Plaza de Armas as an open-air morgue right now. An FRC Lima member has family in Pisco. They are homeless now, so we're sending them tents, blankets, water, etc

The saying “Behind every great man there is a great woman” has variations. Behind every good man… Behind every successful man… And I’ll add my own: “Behind Every Great Woman is a Great Man” I do not really know a successful man or woman that reach the top just by himself, and this is because we where created to complement each other. We cannot try to reach our potential just on a selfish way, it has to be a team effort, and in order to reach the top of the hill, we have to re-set the priority in our life’s: 1. My relation with God 2. My relation with my wife 3. My relation with my kids 4. The rest of the world, (Ministry, work, friend other family) If you mess with this simple rules you may be accomplish some goals in your life, but you’ll never reach your God’s potential in your life and here is why: If I am in good shape with God, then I am strong enough to face the challenges on the relation with my wife. If I’m ok with God and my wife, together we can help our kids to grow and be s...