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Christmas in the trenches

Many of you have probably heard this story.  The two links that follow go together.  Merry Christmas!

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How Hard is it to Design a Stove?

I was reading a magazine article a few minutes ago about stoves used in rural settings, places in India, China, etc.  People were actually working on trying to design a better product.  Which is good.  Problem is they never consider how the stoves are to be used.  And in many cases once they field test them they had to go back to the drawing board.  Now I ask you, how h

Save the Children and other thoughts

Isn't it funny how you can have something hit you out of the blue?  Last night my husband and I attended an annual open house holiday party given by my son's previous basketball coach and his wife.  While there I happened to strike up a conversation with a lady who is part owner and/or instructor in a store called Knitting Sisters.  I told her since I have retired I have bee

How to Donate

 I just responded to an email from someone asking about how to donate to our project.  Just thought I would make this info available to all. 

New book: Mountains Beyond Mountains

I just started reading a new book.  It is about an American doctor who spends most of his time in Haiti.  So far it is fascinating.  I will post more after I have finished the book.  Has anyone else read this book?  It is by Tracy Kidder.  We just put up our tree and then turned off all the lights except those tiny lights on the tree and just sat and listened to Ch

Waggoners in Tanzania part 2

Dear Friends and family: April 4th -13th 

Waggoner's in Tanzania Part 1

Now that the Tanzania interview is up, I will be adding updates for the Waggoner's. Hope you enjoy the largely mother's perspective!

Dear Family and friends:

 

Gone job

I just lost my job.  I wonder if I'll have more time for NLD.

Dame tus ojos

I really like this song, I know most of you won't understand it, but I think you can appreciated it.  Below is a rough translation.  Any of you Spanish speakers out there, feel free to help me out!

ransomed

Here is a question posed in Sabbath school class this morning:

Jesus paid the ransom for us, but who did he pay it to?

happy pondering!

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