You know the world is changing when Jaguar/Land Rover (British automotive icons) - currently owned by the American giant Ford - is being sold to Tata Group, an Indian conglomerate. A change of empires! For more on these trends, be sure to read Tom Friedman’s “The World is Flat” - a fantastic book (essentially required reading) and one that I just finished.

As I work on developing communications with CRM’s donors, I have been inspired by Kiva. Peter Schrock, a friend and colleague, has written a clever little post on the beauty and simplicity of what Kiva enables.

Quoted in the latest issue of Christianity Today:

$25 Billion - Projected embezzlement from churches and Christian institutions in 2008

$23 Billion - Projected giving to global foreign missions in 2008

This is a stunning and very sad reflection on the state of the American church. Thankfully I can be confident that in my work here at CRM, we are working within the $23 billion and not the $25 billion!