Happy Birthday Dad

My Dad just turned 47! Here is our YouTube Trademark Tribute for him... mostly in Portuguese.. sorry.

Aussies, Chicago & Digerati

Hey Blogville ... thanks for your continued return to Heredes.com - it's great to do life with some of you online and to be able to create, connect & communicate here.... On a side note ...according to stat counter - several people have been visiting heredes.com from Australia! Hello Aussies!! Good to have ya here .... lets hook up for lunch in Sydney ;) My treat (as long as you cover my flight- jk)


Anyway ... its been an awesome weekend, as you know - we are in the middle of our most progressive and aggressive series ever: myNakedPastor.com The cameras have been following my Naked Pastor: Troy all over the city and country. As a matter of fact, Troy and I are in downtown Chicago right now getting ready for the Innovate conference in Indiana were he'll be speaking...we'll be here all week. Later today we'll be doing lunch with Scott Hodge (fellow leader) and then get to hang out around the beautiful & historical Chicago. I hope to have some pictures and updates from that ...

Basically I get to be the Digerati Ninja following the Naked Pastor around and making sure he's got what he needs. I love it!



but before I go ...
-to the over 150 who got baptized at the beach - congratulations !
-to the bands & teams at all our campuses - you guys rocked it!
-to all of you joining us at frclive.tv - welcome
-to my wife - miss ya, love ya, need ya
-to Bono - thanks for the email ;)

Quick reCap....

Quick weekend/week reCap just FYI .... click on pictures to enlarge

Picture #1 - We are celebrating our biggest weekend at Flamingo ever... we had over 8,000 people attend our FRC weekend! That's right ... 8,000 lives being impacted by God - the photo says 7,956 - but after proper recount - it was actually 8,056! We're blown away...
Picture #2 - Traveling in myNakedPAstor.com style - after a long "strip search" at the airport (and having all my liquids & gels confiscated) Duh Heredes! I am finally in Tampa for our continued coverage of our naked pastor on mynakedpastor.com (Troy will be teaching at the Florida Worship Expo) - I'll be back on Saturday for our second week of the series and then fly out Sunday night with Troy on our way to Chicago & Indiana for the Granger conference: INNOVATE where he will be one of the featured speakers. You can attend the conference with us at mynakedpastor.com! We will be joined later in the week by some our FRC staff ... should be fun.
Picture #3 - Three happy guys! Find one of them here and the other one here! You guys are awesome .. its an honor to serve with you three ;) - specially the middle one!
Picture #4 - Baptism!! This Sunday (9.23.07) is your chance to take the next step in obedience to God if you haven't already. We'll be partying hard at the Fort Lauderdale Beach (by the Yankee Clipper) and baptizing hundreds of people! There is still time ... if you're interested - shoot me an email here - and I'll take care of you! It's going to be awesome - the party goes on from 1-5PM Baptisms begin at 3PM.
Picture#5 - If you missed it - i Got an iPhone!! read the iPoem in the previous post below and join in on the iPoetry by commenting ;)

Picture#6 - I have the hottest wife in the world! Yup , thats right ... I said hot! Oooooo ... call the blog police... ;) Some things just need to be said ... My wife is hot: Period! Love ya & miss ya linda - muah!

Cds, DVDs & Heredees

It's not a typo Blogville .... the title actually rhymes if you say it out loud. ;)
Just wanted to quickly share some things I was able to "consume" this morning... some of it is brand new, some of it just recent - most of it is good.

As a worship leader... I'm constantly on the lookout for great songs that can help people connect with God. I think we might have some here... I'll be reviewing and recommending some of it soon.

For now ... I'd just like to say that I am so happy Casting Crowns covered Steve Fee's "All Because of Jesus". I began covering that song ever since I saw him last year at 722 in Atlanta - I actually chorded out the song from a ghetto live recording of that night I had on my digital camera. I "myspaced" Steve and got the full lyrics from him and began playing the tune immediately at church! Eight months later Steve released his album and just last week Casting crowns re-released the song! So there you have it ... I claimed the hit (at least here in South Florida)! ;)

Consumed products pictured above (from top to bottom):

-Crave DVD from Erwin Mcmanus' Mosaic
-Shane & Shane CD - Pages
-Casting Crowns CD - The Altar and the Door
-Vertical CD - Invencile (Spanish Worship)
-DC Talk CD/DVD - 10th year anniversary release
-Planet Shakers CD/DVD - Pick it Up
-Planet Shakers CD/DVD - Evermore
-Planet Shakers CD/DVD - Saviour of the World

Not pictured but worth buying right now is Steve Fee's Album "Burn for You"

Just a reminder -
Have you checked out my Naked Pastor lately? See him live now @ myNakedPAstor.com

You're invited to the Party !!

Click on the invitation to enlarge - or click here to invite a friend!

Weekend reCap

Bullet Summary

- we got to babysit Josh - he's the bomb!
- we drove him around on our new Tahoe
- we had the baby chair and everything (glimpse of the future?)
- later we hit the melting pot for some dipping
- I played bass this weekend (rock and roll!)
- Doral had a record attendance again
- We also had over 2000 people at our outreach
- sent out a record 73 emails this weekend (yikes!)
- all emails were work related (I need an iPhone!)
- saw some Romero Britto art (my fav pop artist)
- now chillin with my wife recapping the week
- God is great, life is good, and the Best is yet to come!