So... we love our cars. Today Kenneth took Sara home, as usual, after lunch. On the way back to school the car died. It died at the top of a small hill about 1/4 mile from school. Kenneth coasted down the hill as far as he could then he and a couple of maintenance workers from school pushed the car the rest of the way.
We're not planning a funeral - no, no we don't think it is that dead. Later in the afternoon José (school worker) and Cesar (our mechanic) were checking it out (in Spanish.) They said the problem is with the "flecha". Now, for those of you who know what a flecha is you were probably confused like me. "Flecha" is the Spanish word for arrow.
Then their conversation continued. I caught bits and pieces which included these exciting statements (translated for your convenience), "... it could fall off...", "... that's oil...", "... take the tire off...", "... agreed, that would be bad."
So, hidden in all this are the blessings: it was Kenneth driving, not Joy. There were no children in the car. It was very close to CAG, no the middle of a busy highway.
Prayer request: we have survived with one car before so we know it can be done. With our odd-ball schedules it makes life easier with two. Please pray that we can get the car repaired for small money.
PS: those of you who are still wondering where we have an "arrow" in our car can rest easy - much later on our friend, Melonie, gave us the explanation of what a "flecha" is, as it relates to cars. A flecha is the CV joint.... who knew?
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
MailChimp - What is that?
Those of you who have signed up to get our news letter through e-mail should soon be seing something... it is going to look something like a mail chimp.
Excuse me, a what? A mail chimp. If it works out well then the credit all goes to Dover Baptist Church... if it doesn't work out well please let me know, not them.
There are two primary reasons we haven't been sending out newsletters: (1) time and (2) cost
Time. Well, it takes a lot of it to craft the perfect letter, format it well and send it off to CTen for distribution. By the way here is my plug for CTen - they're amazing folks. They do all the printing, folding, stuffing - EVERYTHING. But before they get it we need to make sure it is a quality product. That was hard when we were trying to fit everything into one single side page (one double side if necessary.) That was because of...
Cost. This is not an unreasonable cost at all but it is a cost which we have not always been able to put a way each month. This is why our letters have become more and more, uh... sparse. When we started CTen wanted us to do monthly letters. However, we thought quarterly newsletters would be sufficient. After seeing the cost of the first few newsletters we scaled back to two letters. Now we are considering other options.
Segue nicely into Mail Chimp. I first saw Mail Chimp when Dover Baptist sent out their news letter using it. I was, frankly, amazed. Of course I first thought, "wow, that is costing them a pretty penny." Actually, no. I don't believe it is costing them much (if anything.)
So, we're back to time. This is time we really need to invest in you - our supporters. Without you we would not be here.
What will this mean for all of you? Well, simple. If you filled out the form on our blog to receive our news letters by e-mail then you do not need to do anything. If you have not yet had chance to fill out the form you can still do so by visiting this link. We have some e-dresses of other supporters which we will use to subscribe them to our e-letter. If those folks do not wish to be on the list they can chose to unsubscribe.
If you still desire to receive a paper copy of our newsletter please send us an e-mail and we can make that happen.
In Christ,
-knm/jre
Excuse me, a what? A mail chimp. If it works out well then the credit all goes to Dover Baptist Church... if it doesn't work out well please let me know, not them.
There are two primary reasons we haven't been sending out newsletters: (1) time and (2) cost
Time. Well, it takes a lot of it to craft the perfect letter, format it well and send it off to CTen for distribution. By the way here is my plug for CTen - they're amazing folks. They do all the printing, folding, stuffing - EVERYTHING. But before they get it we need to make sure it is a quality product. That was hard when we were trying to fit everything into one single side page (one double side if necessary.) That was because of...
Cost. This is not an unreasonable cost at all but it is a cost which we have not always been able to put a way each month. This is why our letters have become more and more, uh... sparse. When we started CTen wanted us to do monthly letters. However, we thought quarterly newsletters would be sufficient. After seeing the cost of the first few newsletters we scaled back to two letters. Now we are considering other options.
Segue nicely into Mail Chimp. I first saw Mail Chimp when Dover Baptist sent out their news letter using it. I was, frankly, amazed. Of course I first thought, "wow, that is costing them a pretty penny." Actually, no. I don't believe it is costing them much (if anything.)
So, we're back to time. This is time we really need to invest in you - our supporters. Without you we would not be here.
What will this mean for all of you? Well, simple. If you filled out the form on our blog to receive our news letters by e-mail then you do not need to do anything. If you have not yet had chance to fill out the form you can still do so by visiting this link. We have some e-dresses of other supporters which we will use to subscribe them to our e-letter. If those folks do not wish to be on the list they can chose to unsubscribe.
If you still desire to receive a paper copy of our newsletter please send us an e-mail and we can make that happen.
In Christ,
-knm/jre
Two Weeks in...
It is hard to believe we are just two weeks back into the semester.
Kenneth continues in his class and with the computer stuff and Joy continues to work on planning out her classes. I think I can safely say (Kenneth speaking for Joy... good idea?) that we feel a bit more planned at this point of the semester.
Abigail and Emma continue to adjust to our new schedule. They began the advanced gymnastics class (four hours a week instead of two) the same week. It has been hard. We will re-evaluate at the end of the month.
More to come.
-knme
Kenneth continues in his class and with the computer stuff and Joy continues to work on planning out her classes. I think I can safely say (Kenneth speaking for Joy... good idea?) that we feel a bit more planned at this point of the semester.
Abigail and Emma continue to adjust to our new schedule. They began the advanced gymnastics class (four hours a week instead of two) the same week. It has been hard. We will re-evaluate at the end of the month.
More to come.
-knme
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Ready, Set, Go!
Second semester is right around the corner... like tomorrow. Wowzers. Like every semester before it I do not believe we're "fully" ready but tomorrow will come no matter what so we'll be as ready as we can be.
Both Abigail and Emma will begin the advanced gymnastics class on Thursday. This will be a trial for us as they move from the twice a week one hour class to the twice a week two hour class. We'll see how it goes and adjust from there.
We wanted to thank everyone who continues to support us - both financially and prayerfully. None of this would be possible without you.
-knme
Both Abigail and Emma will begin the advanced gymnastics class on Thursday. This will be a trial for us as they move from the twice a week one hour class to the twice a week two hour class. We'll see how it goes and adjust from there.
We wanted to thank everyone who continues to support us - both financially and prayerfully. None of this would be possible without you.
-knme
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Gracias por todo - bien viaje!
Jon, Cheri, Emily and Ian left today to return to New Hampshire. I'm expecting they're going to have a wee bit of climate shock as they're leaving sunny and 75F and returning to about eight inches of snow and about 32F.
They're plan took off at 2:10pm CST - about one hour late. We watched it fly out from our house. They should still have time in Houston to deplane, clear customs and immigration and make their connecting flight. Please pray with us that things go smoothly in Houston.
Their visit was amazing. We all had a blast. We went to the Central Market, Antigua, Finca Filadelfia, Mixco, Tikal and a brief tour of CAG. We're very thankful to them for the visit. It was a huge blessing to us.
-knme
They're plan took off at 2:10pm CST - about one hour late. We watched it fly out from our house. They should still have time in Houston to deplane, clear customs and immigration and make their connecting flight. Please pray with us that things go smoothly in Houston.
Their visit was amazing. We all had a blast. We went to the Central Market, Antigua, Finca Filadelfia, Mixco, Tikal and a brief tour of CAG. We're very thankful to them for the visit. It was a huge blessing to us.
-knme
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