Follow for Haitian Connection

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Haiti Mission Trip 2014: This year we hope to put in 1 sink, 2 breaker switches, capture 5 Haitian zombies, teach 400 campers, and avoid 17 trillion Chikungunya virus caring mosquitoes. We have debt. They have bugs.

And zombies. The picture is Zonbi by Haitian artist Wilson Bigaud, 1939. Read older blogs for more zombie stuff. Meanwhile. . .

Lord willing we leave Wednesday noon for somewhere FL, then catch a nap in the airport, then first flight out Thursday we head to Port-au-Prince, rested and ready to go. Right.

Hit the blue f-follow button on the bottom of the blog to get updates automatically. If I’m healthy, I’ll post. If I don’t, send in the zombie-killing, Chikungunya immune SEALS. Thanks in advance,

Dan

Anger an Extremist – And 5 Other Reasons to Follow My Blog

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1: To Anger a Turkish Muslim Extremist. Last year someone twice broke into the back-end of my website, crashed it, and made it point to a Turkish Muslim Extremist Recruiting Site. A couple months ago when I tried to start a Bible Zombie blog on the website, another group attacked. Zombie recruiters? Maybe the first group was actually anti-Christian zombie skinheads masquerading as Muslims.

Anyhow, seeing as my website is about as secure as Christmas gift left overnight in a convertible in Chicago, I started all over on WordPress. The good news is you can follow it, post on it, and say bad things about Skinhead Turkish Muslim Zombie Extremists without crashing the site.

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Zombie History

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I think I’ll try to work this up to be the introduction/chapter one – and then take some of the stories out that i was going to use. Just too many resurrection stories in the Bible – about 9 at my count – that really don’t fit anywhere close to being zombies. I do want the book to share the gospel, but don’t want it to become a bate and switch either.

Zombies are history.

There are legends of zombies from Africa, the southern United States, the Caribbean, the French West Indies – and from some accounts the Far East.. There are legends of African trains being run by zombies, of people being zombified by children, and of witches killing people in order to possess them. These aren’t current made-for-TV scripts, they are honest oral histories.

The word ZOM-BIE (Zom/be) is Kimbundu, a language spoken in the Republic of Angloa. In Kimbundu, “zombie” means ghost, or departed spirit. Zombie is also the name of a snake god in West Africa and Haiti and, according to “The Free Dictionary,” the southern United States. I now bring my double-tap shotgun with zombie ammo when traveling to Lake Charles.

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Zombies Three – The Zombie Army from Joel

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Another draft chapter from Bible Zombies. Any help appreciated…

Could Joel 2 be a description of the coming Zombie Apocalypse?  Some on the normally infallible interweb believe so. Here is what Joel wrote over 2500 years ago, in a prophecy about the future.

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Bible Zombies Two – Samuel

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SamuelThe Setting:

It was around 1000 BC, and Saul was King of Israel. King Saul was suffering from severe depression, paranoia, and on again/off again demon possession. He was in the middle of a war, and losing badly. His best adviser, Samuel, had recently died, and now Saul had no clue what to do. So, he freaked out and did the least logical thing possible.

He brought Samuel back from the dead.

This was especially difficult for Saul to pull off, since as king he had outlawed witchcraft. Somehow, King Saul learned there was a medium in the town of Endor. Saul put on a disguise, and he and a couple of close friends snuck away from the troops in the middle of the night. They went to the medium’s house.

They talked for a while and…

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Christianity Works

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parentsFunerals aren’t fun. Especially when they are for your mom. I was asked to share for a few minutes – but only got about half of it out. Here is what I wanted to say…

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Bible Zombies One

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zombie 3Do you like zombies? Did you know The Walking Dead outperformed the Winter Olympics for viewers ages 18- 49?  They even crashed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website with so many hits. Anyhow i’d like to do a Bible Zombie book – I believe Scripture has something to say. Want to be a part?

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The Letter That Made My Year

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So my sister Jeanette is talking to her friend Jenefer in Austin. Somehow it came up that Jeanette’s brother had written a book. “Cool. What book?” asked Jen. “Bizarre Bible Stories.” “Bizarre Bible Stories? It was my son Bo’s favorite book, and we lost it in a move!”

Long story shorter, Jeanette told me, and I sent Jenefer a copy.  Jen now has two sons younger than Bo, and all three wrote me the sweetest letters. But it was the letter from Bo, who had the book when he was younger, that made my day. Year maybe. Here it is a bit larger to make it easier to read.

Thanks Bo, James, Dippy and Jenefer for the letters!

Bizarre 2 Update: Bizarre 2 should be hitting the bookshelves in September! Heritage Builders Publishers secured a deal with the distributor who services all retailers plus 4,000 Christian Book Stores – so it should be coming to a store near you soon.

The Worlds Three Best Blogs

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Blog_blocks_476x2901: One thing I love about my job is keeping in touch with people long after we have moved apart. Chad Barrett was in my youth group back in the 80s and I got to teach him rappelling at Turkey Peak in Enchanted Rock State Park in TX. He has a great blog that mentions that trip here. 

2: Another favorite friend from time gone by is Marley. When I first went to Haiti in 2006, he was my best buddy. Marley went – I’m hoping – to heaven earlier this week. He was the Heartline Ministries guard dog, the Monster Mastiff whose picture graces this blog. His owners, and the directors of Heartline wrote a wonderful blog about Marley you can read here.

3: Of course my favorite blog is written by my daughter Megan. My only issue with it is, she is a bit like her dad. She doesn’t post often or consistently enough! Catch Megan’s latest rant about short-term missions trips here.

Bizarre 2 Updatehttps://i0.wp.com/h1.danielcooley.com/images/front%20cover-001.jpg: Bizarre 2 should be hitting the bookshelves Aug/Septt! Heritage Builders Publishers secured a deal with the distributor who services all retailers plus 4,000 Christian Book Stores – so it should be coming to a store near you in a month.