the apple store is awesome

i went out without my camera last night so i don't have a picture, but just believe me. and right by it is FAO Schwartz so i did see it Jeff. i just didn't go in. so it's my last morning in NY and i've come to 2 more conclusions, well 3
1. i've seen more mercedes, bmw's and land rovers than i have ever seen in dallas.
2. new yorkers have lots of dogs. i don't know how a big dog can live in an apartment.
3. as i walked down 5th avenue and saw the prices of things, i was struck by the conundrum of how there can be such massive abject poverty a few blocks away from such opulence. i mean there have to be enough people that can buy a $2000 purse that the stores can stay open.

i went to barney's on broadway and looked at their clearance rack and i just can't fathom a $70 t-shirt.

a few more pics for you. i'll put some of these in a yahoo photo album and send it out later.














this is michael gungor, he wrote "friend of God" with israel houghton. pretty cool.

this is for johnny q. cordes. don't you wish you could hit the beacon on dec 12th or 13th?















this is for jetter. december 16th at the beacon. if ben harper was playing it would be a trifecta. new york is for music lovers.













who's buried in "grant's tomb".......



NO ONE!! grant and his wife are "entombed there"
btw this is in harlem. so i was in harlem. i'll post more about all of the cool churches that i went to today. i went to st. john the devine. riverside church and corpus christi. i like old churches. i could just go around and check out old churches all day. i'll leave you with the plauque on the entrance to grant's tomb.

it says "let us have peace"

have a blessed day

chuck

i'm sitting at starbucks...

on broadway and 80th street in manhattan. i highly recommend staying in manhattan if you come to NY.
two things i have noticed about NYC.
1. manhattan is an island, and everything has to be delivered to it daily. the sheer amount of food and products that it takes to support 4 million in population, and another 1 million in tourists is staggering.
2. almost everyone in manhattan has an ipod. it's kindof odd. noone talks to anyone else unless they are not from the city.

do you recognize this building. it's the actual facade used for the diner in sienfeld. i've walked around the city for 3 days now, and it's amazing how many "kramer" t-shirts i've seen. on people, in the stores. i guess he's just pretty new york.








i was going to see a broadway show last night
but they were all like $60, not really the kind of money i want to spend, so i spent some time walking around times square. i almost got tix to the david letterman show, but my conference is going on, and i couldn't get there to pick them up. this conference is amazing. erwin signed my copy of "barbarian way" and he wrote "risk everything" WOW!!
this is erwin. he is much better in person. mosaic brought 40 people to new york with them. everyone i have talked to is genuine, and they love Jesus. erwin said yesterday that he didn't believe in hell. he believed in Jesus. he knows that hell exists, he just doesn't believe in it. that is a pretty cool statement. i have so many things in my conference notes that i can't begin to type all of the cool things that i have learned. a lot of people think because erwin has a mystical faith that he is a heretic. i've heard him talk about nothing but scripture this week. he just says that the Jesus of 1950's america isn't relevant today. in other words. Jesus hasn't changed, but the way we approach him needs to.

be blessed today. i'll be back in tx tomorrow.
chuck

greetings from NYC

this trip has been amazing. it started with us flying in with manhattan on my side of the plane. i tried to take some pics, but it just turned out blurry.
after a fun bus ride, i checked into my hotel. it is spartan at best. it's better than some of the camp cabins i've slept in the last 7 years.

i started my first full day off with a trip to the today show. i was on tv people. i hope you saw me. i have pictorial proof.
this is the head of matthew broderick. i'm not good at taking pics of people while they are moving, but there he is.

after this i started to walk down 5th avenue. my goal being washington square park. i got there. but not before going up in the empire state building. what an amazing view.



so after that little trip, i continued to walk downtown. i walked through soho all the way to the brooklyn bridge. amazing neighborhoods. i had lunch in chinatown at a resturaunt where i'm pretty sure i'm the only person who spoke english. then i went to my conference. amazing speaking and performance by the urban poets. met people from all over. i'm going to put two more pics on here, and i'll blog more later. having a blast