Oddwalk Ministries

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SWAG! – A new pOddcast to delight your ears!

SWAG (6/7/12) – Shannon writes and performs a song about his own personal style (and perhaps a tribute to his favorite musical artist?)

Play

I believe the word you’re searching for is “oxymoron.”

If you have nothing better to do for three minutes and twenty seconds, listen to this. Even if you have something better to do maybe, it’s pretty good.

 

And we promise, a video is coming soon, in true Oddwalk styl- er, swag, I guess—

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Congrats!

With some helpful sleuthing from the winner himself, we are please to announce that Matthew Robaszkiewicz from the NFCYM offices is our big winner! Congratulations Matthew, and let us know what you’d like as your prize, and how to get them to you! (You know how to find us.)

Hooray! And thanks again to all who helped us reach this milestone.

About Visitor 40,002

Well, #40,001 did not step forward to claim the big prize so it’s on to #40,002. Here’s what we know:

– Visited our site from in or near Hyattsville, MD
– At 10:09 Eastern time
– From a windows machine running Firefox at screen resolution 1920×1200
– Came to our site from a facebook posting
– Visited several pages while dropping by (thanks!)
– May have something to do with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network
– Or maybe a theological college nearby?

(It’s a bit frightening how much we can easily find out, isn’t it? And we’re not even Facebook or Google!)

So, this person now has 24 hours to identify him-or-herself. If not, the $40 merch prize will go to visitor 40,003, and we already know who he is! So, a winner in the next day for sure. Thanks again for visiting!

About Visitor 40,001

Yes, we have our first candidate for a winner of the $40 in Oddwalk merch – and yes, visitor 40,001, because according to our sitemeter, visitor 40,000 was Orin, checking to see how close we were, and of course, he’s ineligible for the prize.

So, here’s what we know about visitor 40,001 – he or she is:

– from or near Colorado Springs, CO
– visited our site because we posted about it on facebook
– that was around 7:55am Colorado time
– adlephia.net could be their service provider

So, if that sounds like you, let us know! You have 24 hours to drop us a line. If that person can’t be identified, we’ll move on to 40,002 and on and on until we have a winner! So, keep leaving self-identifying comments, just in case!

Thanks all for helping us reach this milestone!

The March to 40,000!

Hello friends! As of this posting, we at the Oddblog are about 150 unique visits away from number 40,000 (since we’ve been keeping track, anyway). So, it’s prize time again! Our 40,000th visitor will receive $40 in free Oddwalk merchandise – CDs, shirts, fair trade, etc. As always, Oddwalk and our families are not eligible. It would be most helpful for your cause too if you’d leave a comment on this post when you visit so we can try to identify you. If we can’t identify visitor 40,000 or that visitor doesn’t respond to our “You Won!” email, we’ll move on to 40,001 and on and on until we do have a winner.

So, visit the Oddblog early and often, and tell your friends to do so too. We expect a winner sometime this week or early next at the latest. Thanks for all your support over the years, and good luck!

Published Again!

We assume the book also has a bottom half.

We were excited to learn today that a psalm setting of ours, Psalm 31, “I Give My Spirit” has been included in a large resource for Christian worship titled Psalms For All Seasons. It’s being unveiled this weekend at the Calvin College Worship Symposium. It’s a unique, moody setting of the Good Friday lament, not at all our usual fare. You can listen to a little clip here – it’s on our GIA CD “Walk Away Different” and already included in their great resource “Cross Generation” as well. Thanks for sharing in our good news!

Shannon’s Top Ten of 2011

Well, here ends another great year for Oddwalk Ministries. We had the opportunity to bring what we do to a lot of great places: Granite City, IL – Toledo, Ohio – Mascoutah, IL – Breese, IL – Belleville, IL – Davenport, IA – Washington DC – Buffalo, NY – Fairview Heights, IL – Hazelwood, MO…