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C.J. Stroud Foundation Sends Youth To Church Camp

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:58:45 GMT

C.J. Stroud Foundation Sends 7 Space City Church Students to Summer Camp

During the summer offseason, most football players are focused on hosting camps to help young athletes grow stronger and faster. But Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud is making sure youth are growing spiritually, too! Specifically those connected to Space City Church in Houston, TX.

Earlier this year, Pastor Von Won of Space City Church had the honor of leading chapel for the Houston Texans just before their thrilling 4th-quarter comeback win against the Jacksonville Jaguars. According to Stroud, it was Pastor Von Won’s powerful and inspiring message that helped fuel the team’s victory.

That connection came full circle when Pastor Von Won later reached out to the C.J. Stroud Foundation to request help with funding for students to attend church camp this summer. The response came swiftly from Kimberly Stroud, C.J.’s mother and president of the foundation, who offered to sponsor seven students, symbolically honoring her son, who wears jersey #7.

Thanks to their generous support, Space City Church is sending more than 40 students and leaders to the North Texas Assemblies of God Summer Camp in Waxahachie, TX. There, they will join over 500 other campers from across the state for a life-changing week of faith, friendship, and spiritual growth.

Space City Church is a mission-minded ministry with a heart for reaching urban youth and a passion for helping them come to know Christ. As the buses pull away today, filled with excitement and expectation, the students go knowing that someone as influential as C.J. Stroud, and his family, is investing in their spiritual journey.

We are incredibly grateful for the partnership and heart of the C.J. Stroud Foundation. Their impact extends far beyond the football field, straight into the lives and futures of the next generation.

Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:58:45 GMT

Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa

Powered by generative AI, Alexa+ is your new personal AI assistant that gets things done—she’s smarter, more conversational, more capable, and free with Prime.

Today, we’re excited to introduce Alexa+, our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, personalized—and she helps you get things done. She keeps you entertained, helps you learn, keeps you organized, summarizes complex topics, and can converse about virtually anything. Alexa+ can manage and protect your home, make reservations, and help you track, discover, and enjoy new artists. She can also help you search, find or buy virtually any item online, and make useful suggestions based on your interests. Alexa+ does all this and more—all you have to do is ask.

Alexa+ is easy to talk to.

Conversations with Alexa+ feel expansive and natural. Whether you’re speaking in half-formed thoughts, using colloquial expressions, or exploring complex ideas, Alexa+ understands what you mean, and responds like a trusted assistant. It feels less like interacting with technology, and more like engaging with an insightful friend.

Alexa+ turns talk into action.

At the foundation of Alexa’s state-of-the-art architecture are powerful large language models (LLMs) available on Amazon Bedrock, but that’s just the start. Alexa+ is designed to take action, and is able to orchestrate across tens of thousands of services and devices—which, to our knowledge, has never been done at this scale. To achieve this, we created a concept called “experts”—groups of systems, capabilities, APIs, and instructions that accomplish specific types of tasks for customers.

With these experts, Alexa+ can control your smart home with products from Philips Hue, Roborock, and more; make reservations or appointments with OpenTable and Vagaro; explore discographies and play music from providers including Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple Music, and iHeartRadio; order groceries from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market, or delivery from Grubhub and Uber Eats; remind you when tickets go on sale on Ticketmaster; and use Ring to alert you if someone is approaching your house.

Alexa+ also introduces agentic capabilities, which will enable Alexa to navigate the internet in a self-directed way to complete tasks on your behalf, behind the scenes. Let’s say you need to get your oven fixed—Alexa+ will be able to navigate the web, use Thumbtack to discover the relevant service provider, authenticate, arrange the repair, and come back to tell you it’s done—there’s no need to supervise or intervene.

Alexa+ is personalized to you.

The new Alexa is highly personalized—and gives you opportunities to personalize further. She knows what you’ve bought, what you’ve listened to, the videos you’ve watched, the address you ship things to, and how you like to pay—but you can also ask her to remember things that will make the experience more useful for you. You can tell her things like family recipes, important dates, facts, dietary preferences, and more—and she can apply that knowledge to take useful action. For example, if you are planning a dinner for the family, Alexa+ can remember that you love pizza, your daughter is vegetarian, and your partner is gluten-free, to suggest a recipe or restaurant.

Mike Todd Finally Addresses His Critics

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:58:45 GMT

Mike Todd Finally Addresses His Critics

�� Pastor Mike Todd sits down with Lecrae for one of the rawest and most unfiltered conversations we’ve ever had on *The Deep End*. They get real about what it takes to stay obedient to God while handling massive influence, public scrutiny, and private sacrifice.

Mike opens up like never before — covering everything from hidden battles to viral moments — and shares the heartbeat behind his bold moves.

*We get into:*

�� *North Tulsa roots & a crazy rise from sound guy to pastor*

�� *Why he preaches with sermon illustrations*

�� *Why he wears what he wears*

��‍♂️ *Losing the weight, killing the gluttony, and guarding his temple*

��️ *How confession keeps him free — and why he’ll die empty*

�� *Tap in. This one’s for anyone fighting distraction, criticism, and fear — but still choosing courage.*

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Let’s go to the Deep End!