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Upcoming Fall/Winter 2010 Schedule

Upcoming Fall/Winter Speaking Schedule. Stay tuned for more updates.

Friday, October 1, 2010 - Homecoming Weekend at Rutgers University/Scarlet Knights Chapel
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Sunday, October 3, 2010 - Chicago Bears Chapel
New Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - Grover Cleveland High School/Life on Purpose Lecture Series Launch
Queens, NY
8:20AM & 9:30AM

Friday, October 8, 2010 EnRoute/Christ Tabernacle
Queens, NY
9:30PM

Friday, October 15, 2010 EnRoute/Christ Tabernacle
Queens, NY
9:30PM

Tuesday, October 19 - 21, 2010 Healing Place Church
Baton Rouge, LA

Sunday, October 24, 2010 Bethany Baptist Church
Jamaica, Queens
3:00PM

Friday-Sunday, November 5-7, 2010 Belmont Assembly
Chicago, IL
7:00PM

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
New York University
La Herencia Latina/Intervarsity
New York, NY

Friday, November 12, 2010 EnRoute/Christ Tabernacle
Queens, NY

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Prayer Meeting/Christ Tabernacle
Queens, NY
7:00PM

Friday, November 19, 2010 United Revival Mennonite Church
Bushwick, Brooklyn
7:00PM

Friday, November 19, 2010 EnRoute/Christ Tabernacle
Queens, NY
9:30PM

Friday, December 3, 2010 EnRoute/Christ Tabernacle
Queens, NY

Friday, December 10, 2010 EnRoute Christmas Party
Queens, NY

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My Humble Podcast!

Thank you for visiting Life on Purpose. In response to recent inquiries and requests for sermons/podcast, I've identified a handful of talks posted online:

Click on the link(s) and enjoy!

One Night...STAND!

No Place Like Home

The 252 Way

Walk The Talk

Four Letter Words

When Religion and Religion Collide

A Cry for A Cry

The Big Little Church

Rafael Castillo You Tube Channel

Catalyst Young Influencers List - September

YOUNG INFLUENCERS LIST - SEPTEMBER
Catalyst

Here you go, the September Edition of the Young Influencers List.

1. Jack Dorsey- Creator and co-founder of Twitter, and CEO of Square.

2. Luma Mufleh- founder and director of The Fugees and Fugees Family, an organization devoted to working with child survivors of war, primarily through soccer and other sports.

3. Jaeson Ma- musician, artist, pastor, and connector in the LA area.

4. Jenny White- director of Art House America in Dallas. Worked previously with the WH First Lady advance team in 2007.

5. Kohl Crecelius- CEO and co-founder of Krochet Kids, helping lift Northern Ugandan women out of poverty through crochet products.

6. Rafael Castillo- Director of Next Generation Min, Christ Tabernacle, Queens, NY.

A heart felt thanks to Brad Lomenick and congratulations to the other "influencers".

Ralph

"Game Changers" by Ralph Castillo at The NINES

One Night...STAND!

The Leadership Summit Day#2

Note: Read each speaker section from the bottom up. Special thanks to guest tweeter and re-tweeters @jeremydelrio; @adamdurso @christtab @rafaelcastillo

Bono


- I @rafaelcastillo heard overtones of A Cry for A Cry over the last two days at the summit which I spoke at prayer meeting just b4 #tls09 wow
- Hybels: we need compassion AND justice to end stupid, extreme poverty in this generation. #tls09
- Hybels: God in his humor chose bono to get the poor on our radar. #tls09
- Hybels: I get paid too much. Willow is a resourced church. Do I do enough? #tls09
- Hybels: Jesus had 'blinding clarity' abt church's obligation 2 poor. Matt 25 #tls09
- bono: its not ok to have a child die for lack of immunizations and food. #tls09
- bono: anger re injustice gives me reason to get out of bed an hr early. stats have faces. we must make poverty history #tls09
- bono: nothing is dependent on you. but it's hard, because there is resistence. journey of justice&equality requires each of us
- bono: grace happens in community. #tls09
- soccer coach testimony: caring for the poor is more than giving money. give your life. #tls09
- bono: people want preachers to be honest. have a spirit of humility. be real. #tls09
- bono's "fear of denominationalism" - hybels is pushing back. bono: "i go where the life is... hard to take lifeless ceremony" #
- After banks crashed, it was so easy to bail out wall st with $700 billion. but it was so hard to find $ for ppl in a far off crisis
- "jesus created the church to exist for the world. ... why did it take a rock star?" #tls09
- testimony of infertile couple who gave their $ for fertility treatmnts to feed malnourished kids even if they nvr had their own child #tls09
- testimonies from pastors who were afraid to talk abt poverty ... until a rock start prophet brought conviction. WOW #tls09
- bono: intuition is better than intellect. u2's best work comes when we dont know what we are doing. #tls09
- interpreting bono: god was with the hungry etheopian who inspired the song, and hes with u when u remember him. #tls09
- Bono: i wrote the lyrics at an etheopian feeding station as ppl who walked all nite for food arrived. thats the street with no name. #tls09
- Bono: when we sing "where the streets have no name" god walks thru the room. humbling bc it's a bad lyric, but god uses it.
- A mark of spiritual maturity is whether people are releasing their resources for the least of these. #tls09
- When global poverty became personal, churches started making a difference. Find where God is working and join in. #tls09
- Bono: the concept of neighbor has completely changed. in the global village, Africa and US are now neighbors. #tls09
- Bono: The church is now in the lead, not the rear. we are now winning in some places because the church has woken up!
- Bono: in last 3yrs, the church has "ruined it for me." cant mock church anymore. "i didnt know the giant cld run that fast."
- Bono: has he seen a difference bw the disengaged, detached church 3 yrs ago, and the church fighting global poverty 2day?
- Hybels: Don't get heated re polarized extremes. "Resubmit our brains" to the HS so we can think abt both #tls09
- Hybels: No child shld EVER starve to death in our world. BUT we must also fix systems that are broken. Smart ppl shld do both.
- Hybels: there's a difference between life saving compassion a
- Follow @jeremydelrio for tweets on Bono's session #tls09

Chip & Dean Heath


- Sculpting the path is necessary for leading change. Easier to lead people downhill than up. #tls09
- Stop blaming people for problems. Often its not a person problem, but a situation problem. Extend grace. Stop assuming worst. #tls09
-Built into a Growth Mindset is a tolerance for failure. Failing is a necessary step for success. "Work up to failure" to get better. #tls09
-Tiger Woods overhauled his swing bc he has a growth mindset. With work, I can become better (as a husband, leader, etc). #tls09
-Chip: When forewarned, ppl can deal with setbacks as the valley of insight. #tls09
-Start on a high (hope) and end on a high (confidence). In between, we go thru the valley of insight that comes during adversity. #tls09
-Chip: we owe it to ppl to prepare thm for adversity. my elephant (emotions) is skittish and lazy. prepare rider (will) for adversity #tlc09
-Dan: shrink the change to start the change. big changes come one step at a time. Cant go frm A to Z wo B, C, etc 1st. #tls09
-Dan: Lots of small actions lead to big results. Example economic recovery of Miner County, SD (1st proposed by a HS student) #tls09
-Switch: Big problems usually solved by sequence of small solutions. Asymmetry bw scale of problem and scale of solution. #tls09
-Chip: Lots of things are TBU (true but useless). Focus on what really matters.
-Chip: Ignore what doesn't work, and instead focus on bright spots. Study & clone it. Ex: solution focused therapy. Proof of capacity #tls09
-Dan: Change is filled with conflict. A rider on an elephant: interests must be aligned, otherwise elephant wont go where rider wants #tls09
-Chip: Not everyone resists change. Some welcome it. Can't have a family without embracing it. Why is some change harder than other? #tls09
-Chip & Dan Heath, authored Switch: How to change when change is hard. #tls09

David Gergen

-RT @AdamDurso "Bill Clinton was a man who had a 360 degree compass of the world and yet did not have an internal compass." #tls09 D. Gergen
-Gergen's concluding metaphor: We inherited a fire from others; add ur own log to the fire. #tls09
-Gergen, quoting Ghandi: Be the change you want to see in the world. #tls09
-Gergen: Faith, family, and friends are great anchors. Remind us that life is bigger than us. Prevent hubris and arrogance. #tls09
-Gergen: spiritual center provides moral compass, true north. develop good anchors to keep ego in check. nourish this in church. #tls09
-Gergen: frm church i want place 2find inner peace, something larger than me; to learn something from pas or readings; & moral compas #tls09
-Gergen: younger generation cares deeply abt social change. they r on a spiritual journey. i love this generation #tls09
-Gergen: consistent small behaviors lead to great impacts. #tls09
-Gergen: build time into every day 4reflection AND being with people u cherish. Ppl w loving, social relationships tend to live longer #tls09
-Gergen: Personal habits matter. Best leaders develop good habits that work for them. Self-discipline & phys fitness. #tls09
-Gergen: great speeches end with a call for action. "Come let us march," not just think. Argument AND emotional appeal. Head+heart #tls09
-Gergen: if speeches go longer than 30 mins, only 1/4 of audience still pays attn. Best speeches are 10-15 mins #tls09
- Gergen: great speeches depend on: believability of speaker, the logic of the msg, & its emotion. via Aristotle #tls09
- Gergen: who the speaker IS speaks as loudly as anything the speaker says. whose voice matters, tht u'll hear? depends on trust. #tls09
- Gergen: BUT symbols must be authentic. Symbols that are fake and phony -> mistrust. #tls09
- Gergen: Ghandi traded legal clothes for loin cloth. symbolic rejection of privilege and connection to commoners. #tls09
- Gergen: leadership is about trust and communications (not command). Be conscious of symbols. Give hope and inspiration. #tls09
- Gergen: if u want to go fast, go alone. if u want to go far, go together. #tls09
- Gergen: Leaders must also learn how to partner and collaborate BEYOND their team of leaders. #tls09
- Gergen: leadership doesnt have to be lonely. day of lone ranger leader is OVER. Best results come from great teams of leaders. #tls09
- Gergen: MLK's private life was chaotic. BUT he was a great public moral leaders. Reconciled the two bc he NVR claimed to be a saint. #tls09
- Gergen: maturity is coming to grips with ur flaws. be self-aware. we all have brite and dark side. integrate thm authentically #tls09
- Gergen: NOT all great leaders are deeply flawed. "Hard to find flaws" with Christ. #tls09
- Gergen: Clinton had character issues. Worst failure was to not confess and ask forgiveness. #tls09
- Gergen: INSPECT sometimes as important as RESPECT #tlc09
- Gergen: Reagan was sometimes too detached. Allowed others too much control. Dont trust to point of detachment. #tls09
- Gergen: Ford's niceness and decency was his strength, but also cld be weakness. sometimes naive. #tls09
- Gergen: Nixon had a dark side AND a brite side. Demons he cldn't control, and they won out. he authored his own tragedy. #tls09
- Gergen: Reagan - sometimes the right hand doesn't know what the far right hand is doing. #tls09
- Gergen: Reagan's optimism built community. people who can laugh together can pray together and bond #tls09
- Gergen: Pres Clinton - quick & tactical mind. Always willing to get back up. Tragic ... BUT resilient! #tl09
- Gergen: Re Pres Ford: back to the wall in the oval office is a tricky exercise.
- Gergen: Some1 who can look farther back can see further ahead. Learn from history
- Gergen: Nixon was "the best strategist" he ever saw. Cld see into the future and work backwards.
- Gergen: FDR stepped back from activity for his most inspired thought. While fishing had his aha moment -> strategy that won WW2 #tls09
- Gergen: learn leadership by reflective practice. Must do it, but continually read 2learn &grow. Not evry reader leads, but evry leadr reads
- Gergen: dont fool urself. set goals carefully and hold urself accountable to them. #tlc09
- Gergen: don't confuse motion with movement. choose goals tenaciously and pursue them. #tlc09
- Please welcome - guest Twitter @jeremydelrio as he tweets David Gergen talk @christtab

Wes Stafford

- a 1st 4 me-prophecy tweet- Ive redeemed u but 2day Ive come to redeem ur story. i am He who turns the valley of achor into a doorway of hope
- Bill Hybels - don't limit redemption for salvation-God will redeem all things. promise in Romans is all things HE will work 2gether 4 good
- WS: I want jesus to wipe away every tear AND the sweat from my brow! #tls09
- WS: What's your cause? Does it move you to tears? What moves you passionately? Please don't Live/Lead like that! #tls09
- WS: too often in churches, children are a 2nd rate mandate. Abusive adults cause children to resent the god professed by those adults #tls09
- Wes Stafford - Satan's favorite tool Redeemed! The power of narrative. http://www.compassion.com/
- WS: dangerous things can happen when children are treated like a second rate mandate! #tls09
- WS: they won't care what you know until they know WHY you care! Remix #tls09
- WS: how do we leverage pain and hurt? #tls09
- RT: jeremydelrioWes Stafford: "Too Small to Ignore: Why the least of these matter most." Love children bc TODAY we shape the future. #tls09

Andrew Rugasari

- Trade and not aid- reconstruct the "help narrative." Help people help themselves! Andrew Rugasari #tls09
- Aid is not Aid; it undermines accountability; creates chronic dependency; undignified - Andrew Rugasira (goggle him) #tls09
- RT @jeremydelrio A Rugasira: Africa needs trade, not aid (handouts)
- stages of obedience-deeper collaboration; communal living; radical sacrifice for the outsider; painful adapdation - world will take notice
- it's not about THE building but about what happens IN the building! really? dave gibbons #tls09
- relationships trump vision - dave gibbons #tls09 We need more Relationaries!
- at church - walk slowly; see the people; do i see the people? dave gibbons #tls09
- Failure becomes a platform to humanity - your weakness and failures are a gift from God. Failure is Success! Dave Gibbons #tls09
- Rahab - the misfit/the outsider had the key to the city - dave gibbons #tls09

LIVE Twitter Willow Creek Leadership Summit

*Note: Each section should be read from the bottom up! Originally at ChristTab Twitter from RafaelCastillo Twitter

Harvey Carey

- mental gymnastics & another binder OR challenged to act? -Harvey Carey #tls09
- for some of ya'll this is your umpteenth conference and you ain't do nooothin yet but register for next years conference-Harvey Carey #tlc09
- We huddle on Sunday at service but never break to play in the game! -Harvey Carey #tls09
- How many more conference binders do you need to begin doing ministry! -Harvey Carey #tls09

Jessica Jackley

- When you believe that someone can do something remarkable, you don't have to sell or market it to get people to give to it - jackley #tls09
- Great poets show and don't just tell - Jessica Jackley #tls09
- innovation - life giving ideas should be in the church! -Jessica Jackley #tls09
- in a meritocracy the best ideas win! -Jessica Jackley #tls09
- KIVA has raised 85 million dollars in just 4 years
- http://www.kiva.org/ - loans that change lives. WOW Live interview with Jessica Jackley #tls09
- check out http://ralphye.blogspot.com for The Leadership Summit Twitter Summary #TLS09
- poor will always be with you AND Jesus said what you do for the least of these you do for me! - Jessica Jackley KIVA #tls09

Tim Keller

- Jesus (The firstborn among many) - the true elder brother saved us AT HIS EXPENSE! Thank you Tim Keller #tls09 @rafaelcastillo
- 2. move biblical teaching toward the gospel of grace - Keller #tls09
- 1. experience personal renewal and freedom
- Why I'm trying so hard to help people - IS IT FOR ME? FOR YOU? Don't go into ministry to save your soul? - Keller #tls09
- true elder brother would have secured the younger brother AT HIS EXPENSE! - Keller #tls09 Jesus
- not enough to repent for 'wrong' doing although necessary! -Keller #tls09
- repent for your damnable good works - motivations for right doing! -Keller #tls09
- elder brother - new level of repentance and joy! repent for reasons of right doing (motives) - OMG -Keller #tls09
- elder brother - all for right doctrine - loathe people who don't! -Keller #tls09
- elder brothers - when criticism comes - you melt down or viciously attack. based on self image not on christ centered image Keller #tls09
- elder brotherish - angry when life doesn't go well! one believes God owes them. - Keller #tls09
- source of spiritual deadness - we make God through obedience to get leverage (self righteous and insecure) based on performance - no fruit
- both sons want the Father's thing and not the Father - he has to urge each boy to join the feast. the bad boy is saved. the good boy is lost
- Luke 15 parable shows both boys are alienated from the Fathers heart; both are lost. young boy wants $ by being bad. elder boy by being good
- 120,000 people on a dirty little secret - church is dead & w. fear and trembling will diagnose and suggest cure - Keller #tls09
- Bill Hybels recommends The Hole in our Gospel by Richard Sterns http://www.theholeinourgosp... #tls09
- gr8 lyrics - thanks 4 sharing Josh Wilson! tlc09

Gary Hamel

- Gary Hamel introduced 60,000 leaders to the brave new world we live in - religion is not the problem maybe its the organized part? tls09
- mobilize - connect - support - a suggested model! hamel tls09
- can we build an organization without a superhuman at the top - hamel tls09
- it is dangerous to have a monopoly on creative direction - hamel tls09
- pray for abraham courage to sacrifice models and programs we hold dear - hamel tls09
- the longer you are in the trenches the easier it is to see the end of your rod as the horizon! -hamel tls09
- Test 2. compare - what are we doing the same? -hamel tls09
- Test: 1. look at programs - what hasn't changed?
- Chief Innovation Officer? 1000 ideas, 100 experiments, 10 winners. How do we increase impact? tls09
- most of what we are doing now will be rendered ineffective by the future -admit it!humility=survival in an ever changing world - hamel tls09
- Face the facts! I @rafaelcastillo love this guy! -hamel tls09
- dismiss - rationalize - mitigation - confront - process of change. -hamel tls09
- 1. you have to overcome the temptation to hide in denial - hamel tls09
- we need to change the way we change -OMG! - hamel tls09
- consider the rocket - what goes up fast come down - usually in pieces - hamel tls09
- our problem is not isms but inertia -hamel tls09
- we should feel lucky about the secularization of the culture - it will force us to step it up - hamel tls09
- churches are a weekly convergence for the converted and the content - hamel tls09
- are you on the van guard or the old guard? haw fast are you adapting to the world around you? - hamel tls09
- google Gary Hamel - a believer; a business strategist;

Bill Hybels

- In any organization clarity and care should be best friends! tls09
- 1. retrain - 2. reposition - 3. retire! David Ireland on firing someone...tls09
- candor with care is the greatest gift you can offer someone - carly fiorina
- times and seasons for everything - bill hybels!
- the new testament calls for a plurality of leadership which is better than one guy holding all the cards - bill hybels tls09
- trust and being vulnerable are required for teams to be successful tls09
- meltdowns in leadership happen when something isn't properly dealt with tls09
- I'd rather endure the pain of not having a spot filled than having the wrong person in a spot - bill hybels tls09
- process always does it's work - respect it! tls09
- build a strong culture - you'll attract the right people! tls09
- making choices via gut is great WITH the facts -Carly Fiorina tls09
- cultural 'fit' is important for any organization when considering a hire and making a decision about a person/relationship
- LIVE tweets Session #2 Hiring, Firing & Board Meltdowns - lessons for leadership & life. stay tuned...
- Willow Creek Leadership Summit @ChristTab with over 325 leaders from all over the borough of Queens- Awesome!!!

Memorable 1st visit to the new Yankee Stadium

Food at Yankees stadium - $85.00

Roundtrip train fare to the stadium - $8.00

15 hours with Nicky Cruz, Willie Alfonso & Bible study @ Mariano Rivera's home - Priceless!

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