Its been a little bit since my last post. No, I haven’t been traveling to a place with no Internet connection and no I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth. Instead, I ran out of time - repeatedly. I know, that’s no excuse as we all have time restraints but that’s the honest truth. And there have been so many things that I have said - “Oh, I should blog that…”

So what’s been happening since coming back from our trip to Switzerland:

• Had a parent/teacher conference and got Alex’s 1st First Grade report card - I won’t divulge all the details but my son is smart! With me being his father, that should make any atheist believe in miracles
• I’ve been helping some of the other missionaries around here with some PC (and Mac) issues. I have to say, hard drive failures are not fun and digging for files on a drive - I feel so CSI’ish. Remember to do backups - learn from others experience
• I got to be on a conference call with a group of other people from around the world who use computer centers to help those in need and to share the love of Christ.
  (Do you want to learn more about using computer centers - check out the US based ministry called TechMission as they know a lot about this)
• Been working on building a blogging community for helping us run short term teams into Ukraine for the purpose of installing a computer center and teaching basic computer skills. This online community is based on WordPress MU. What I have been learning in developing this site is going to help us in developing many more blog communities in the future. Its been awesome.
• Developing a better way to work with, organize and recruit eDOT volunteers. We use volunteers for a lot of our technical work and we’re always looking for someone who wants to partner with us for 5 or more hours a week from their homes. We need people with all sorts of skills so that they can develop courses for teaching software use, design and develop websites, design graphics and print material, manage technical projects, write manuals and project documentation, design networks, administer websites, etc.
  If you are interested (even if you don’t think you have skills that would help but have a heart for using technology to reach Europe), contact me at Courtney@RoesGarden.com
• Krista and I have also been working on sending out a newsletter to all of our partners out there. You can get it in PDF format by clicking here. Roes Update - November 2007
  If you would be interested in getting our newsletter, drop me a note to Courtney@RoesGarden.com saying you want to me on our mailing list. Let me know if you want it sent electronically or via the post office.

Well, I have a back log of blogs to write. I hope to get them up soon.