2 hours, 15 minutes: Time the average office worker spends visiting non-work-related Web sites daily.     1.1 billion: Dollars employers lose in productivity each week during the NFL season to workers managing their fantasy football teams.    Wow. Tattler needs to get off this computer and get back to work...

As we pray and prepare for the Int'l Campus Conference in New Orleans next year, MSNBC gives us the latest on the rebuilding process.  Conference participants will spend one day working with Hope and Habitat for Humanity rebuilding homes.  They will give us both the skills, the tools, and a place to work.  It will be a totally different conference. One day out in the field, and two days of classes and fellowship in the hotel.  The city of New Orleans is still way behind and way underfunded in their rebuilding efforts.  Sections of the city are still desolate.  Some city officials es

In spite of the economic challenges of our country (over 2000% inflation and climbing) and the mass exodus of disciples to the Diaspora, God has been working in amazing ways in the church in Harare.  One of the highlights has been the teens ministry. Within a space of 12 months, God has blessed the teens ministry with 13 baptisms: 9 boys and 4 girls.

By Mark in New Delhi.     Ten months ago the New Delhi and Kolkata churches of Christ sent out six courageous disciples to the city of Bhubaneswar, Orissa, to plant a church. Orissa is a very poor part of India, and Bhubaneswar is a city full of Hindu temples and leaders. Several years ago in Orissa an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two sons were burned to death in their car by an angry Hindu mob. In spite of the challenges in this very tough field, the disciples have seen 9 baptisms in 10 months.

Nice clips of some of the speeches at http://www.laicc.net/index.htm

Our friends over at www.missionmemo.org report a summary of their 2006 survey. Highlights include...

The Tattler heard that over 1200 have registered and attended the ILC in Anaheim. Except for Yankee fans, everyone looks very happy.

For the Boston Campus ministry the first month of the semester was a time of faith.  As school started in September the leadership group of the ministry set before God in prayer the goal of seeing every bible talk being fruitful this semester…14 conversions!  Next the group of about 20 leaders shared their faith with some 3500 people the first week, and the second week called and encouraged the entire congregation to imitate this.  God blessed

This year’s Nairobi Christian Church Women’s Day was life-changing to all who attended and quite unique by design.

Cooperating Church Delegates at the International Leadership Conference (ILC) here in Los Angeles Sunday decided on Denver, USA, as the host city for 2009. New York had also thrown their hat in the ring. Kiev, Ukraine is the host city for 2008.

     The delegates of the cooperating churches met on Saturday in Anaheim before the ILC to choose venues for the Campus Conferences in 2008 and 2009.  San Antonio was asked to organize the 2008 conference, and will be inviting the students and ministers to NEW ORLEANS to both have the conference and to spend some time volunteering in the city.  The date is July 3-6, 2008.  More on this to come.       The 2009 Campus Conference venues are Seattle on the West Coast and Hampton Roads, Va, on the East Coast.  For the first time (and on a trial basis) the 2009 conference will be s

Tattler has learned that the Ottenwellers (from Africa) and the Jacques (Cambodia) have moved to Philadelphia to work on global strategies for HOPE. Hats off to these homecoming heroes. We wish them all the best.

The Maputo church (80 disciples), powerfully led by our newest Southern African evangelist Araujo Francisco and his wife Ilse, had 6 baptisms last month. This church has been an example of joy, faith, zeal and growth since Araujo & Ilse moved to Maputo to take over this previously troubled church. The entire church traveled to Johannesburg earlier this year to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Joburg church, such is the spirit of unity and family that they have with all their other brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Los Angeles ICOC is hosting the Int'l Leadership Conference beginning this Sunday in Anaheim, California. Over 1000 leaders and participants are expected from around the world. Be praying for inspiring messages and Spirit filled fellowship.

In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, God is moving powerfully to reach the millions of women in that country. Recently, the Jakarta church had their women’s day entitled In All Seasons, with Nadine Templer as the guest speaker and had an incredible attendance of 6000! The event was held over four days, with each service averaging an attendance of 1200-1500 women. Over 100 women signed up for Bible Studies and many talented musicians and mature older women have been responding to the Word of God.

In July 2007, the Singapore church (www.seachurches.org) was one of the main participants in the community Racial and Religious Harmony Day. This is a day dedicated to highlighting the various religions in Singapore and our church was selected to represent Christianity at the community event. We ran a large booth at the carnival with hundreds of Christians helping out throughout the day. The brothers and sisters did balloon sculpting, face painting, and even gave away fruit and chocolate fondue to all passers-by!

Watching movies can be good for your health! This is what HOPE worldwide Singapore (www.hopewwsea.org) has found with its new and innovative counseling initiative called Movie Therapy (www.movietherapy.com)

Mission Team Plantings: Because we have not been able to send full mission teams, different regions of the Singapore church have adopted certain key cities in Malaysia. Every few months, Christians from Singapore and Malaysia take leave and go to their adopted city and evangelise, hold services and do bible studies with those who are open. One such city is Kuching, in East Malaysia. So far, the Christians have flown there 5- 6 times over the past 18 months. They even had their regional leaders retreat there so that more people could help evangelise the city.

Our First Martyr in China  (From the Taiwan website)  Growing up in a rural village in China, Mei Yu was happy to be studying in a top university in a big city.  Like many students from the countryside, she shares a Spartan studio apartment with another girl.  The only problem was that Mei Yu’s roommate frequently brought her boyfriend home.

A small group of 15 disciples started the Singapore church in 1988.  Today, from that tiny mustard seed of faith, the church has grown to over 4300 baptized disciples in 17 churches in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.  Take a tour of the Singapore church building... http://www.seachurches.org/new_website/