Day: August 9, 2005

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trying to get back into the groove

i haven’t really been able to focus on blogging since getting back from nicaragua. i’m not sure why. anyway i’m really just typing here to get back into the habit.

i have an update for those who have discussed some plans for helping within the the dump in diriamba (for you who don’t know this there are over 200 kids who live in the dump in diriamba with their families probably totalling around 500 people). our church set up a feeding program within the dump but some of us are dealing with other plans for helping the inidividuals who live within the dump get out of that situation). i have started the emailing process of getting information on teaching the kids to make sandals out of used tires (easily found within the dump) that could then be sold in nicaragua and the states. after a few emails i finally found the person who started this same process in haiti but i haven’t received a response from him yet. i also have been corresponding with claudia baltadonna concerning collecting bowls for the kids in the dump. we’ll probably start collecting bowls at “the view.”

btw, sergio and al velasquez are back in town from venezuela. i spoke with them on the phone earlier today.

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bloggers i would like to meet

i’m blatantly stealing this from grant, but i’ve always heard that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. so grant consider yourself flattered.

here’s a list of bloggers that i would like to meet, drink some coffee or eat some cane’s with, go fly fishing with, and/or basically hang out with for an afternoon.

  • grant english – reading his blog is kind of freaky because we seem to agree on so much and we even have a connection from the past – his sister was in the church where i first started my experiment in youth ministry.
  • ian mcdonald – pam and i are planning on going back to england some time in the next few years and when we do i have got to meet ian. his blog is great. on top of that i want to see his shed.
  • jonny baker – again when pam and i go to england (years from now) visit with jonny baker is a must. i wonder how he’ll feel about a strange american just showing up at his house for supper?
  • shane yancey – shane is a youth minister in eufaula, alabama (about 45 minutes away from where i grew up in dothan) and i really like reading about the stuff he is doing at his church. if we ever would make it over to see my wife’s sister in dothan it shouldn’t be too hard to meet him. of course, i haven’t been to dothan in 9 years so i don’t see it happening soon.
  • ty siscoe – it’s a flickr thing.
  • underbunny – again a flickr thing.

of course, there are others that i would also like to meet but those are on the top of the list. i also have a list of bloggers that i have met that i would like to spend more time with – len evans and marko top that list.