Last November SCL partnered with SafeWorld Nexus for the SCL10K. The goal was to raise $10,000 in 24 hours for mosquito nets in Uganda. We ended up raising more than $33,000. One of the things Matt Chambers and his team at SafeWorld Nexus are doing is sending out GPS coordinates that show you exactly where your nets went. I got mine recently and it’s awesome to see the lives that were changed during that event. He is going back to Uganda this summer to finish the delivering the nets and plans to have the GPS coordinates delivered to everyone who participated by end of July.

Matt also has a fun event coming up called “Join a New Story.” It’s in Franklin, TN on Monday, May 9 from 7-9PM at the Factory. He’s raising money to build a maternity center in Haiti with Heartline Ministries. It’s going to be a pretty amazing night and I recently recorded a video for the event because I’m a huge fan of what these guys are doing. Click here for more details and ticket information.

The other day, my seven-year-old L.E. said something to me:

“My friend at school taught me a new song. It’s called Tick Tock.”

Immediately I started thinking, “Please be the nursery rhyme, please be the nursery rhyme. Come on mother goose, Daddy really needs this to be the mother goose version and not Ke$ha.”

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My new book Quitter doesn’t officially come out until Tuesday, May 10th but last week Amazon sold out. What does that mean?

1. It means they sold out of the shipment they had and we’re printing a whole lot more.

2. It means if you pre-ordered on Amazon they will still be sending you the books on time.

3. It means you can still pre-order on DaveRamsey.com, and Barnes & Noble today.

Amazon should have more copies in the next few days and the Kindle/iBooks/ebook version is almost ready to go too. (I’ll post when both forms of the book are up!)

Thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered. Don’t forget that if you pre-order on DaveRamsey.com you get the audio book download for FREE.

Why do people own buffalo? What’s the thought process there? If you’re Ted Turner and own a herd that you eat occasionally, I get that. But owning two buffalo seems like a really arbitrary purchase to me.

You can’t shave them for their fur. You can’t ride them or bring them to little kid birthday parties where seven year olds can prance around on them between pin the tail on the donkey and cake. That I’m aware of, you can’t teach them tricks or barrel race them in competitions. They seem like one big, expensive designer pet. Like a fancy purse dog, only they weigh two thousand pounds and you probably can’t put them under the table at a restaurant that serves capers and food that is “fusion.”

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“You snuck a new blog in there and didn’t even tell me.”

Someone told me that last week because they felt like I had done a woefully inadequate job letting folks know about the new blog I am writing. She’s right. Things have been crazy and I haven’t even mentioned the new red top nav/main nav/red hat Stuff Christians Like has which I think really simplifies things.

Here’s what each section is all about:

Blog = This is my new blog. (jonacuff.com) I’m writing about stuff like how to blog, creativity, social media and 1 easy way to kill perfectionism. I’ll also be sharing Quitter ideas there and maybe even some stuff about being a dad and husband.

Tour = This is a list of all the places I’ll be speaking in the next few months and how to book me.

Books = This page is about the three books I’ve written.

Quitter = This is the page that has the Quitter trailer and FREE first chapter.

About = This is some background info about me.

Contact = This is a collection of ways to get in touch with me.

Advertising = This about ways you can help sponsor Stuff Christians Like and JonAcuff.com.

SCL = This is Stuff Christians Like, the site you’re on right now. (Like inception, this blog post is about a blog within a blog.)

When we were naming the sections it felt weird to have “Blog” right next to “SCL” in the list because they are both blogs. So we spread them out to hopefully avoid any confusion.

I’d love for you to check out my new blog and I was not at all trying to “sneak it by you.” I promise.