tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76306212478322842472024-02-20T23:30:33.220-08:00big fun bloginterested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-35667338220354493812013-07-27T04:15:00.002-07:002013-07-27T04:15:55.261-07:00Christ for All NationsG+d's powerful truth + one incredibly passionate German...<br />
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... From the European perspective, it would suit the driving style of the States perfectly, with lots of relaxed muscle available at low rpms to cruise vast interstate networks that are the envy of the world. Better mileage means fewer fill-ups, and the on-paper improvements in fuel economy would, overnight, take the US fleet one massive step toward President Obama’s targeted <a href="http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2012/Obama+Administration+Finalizes+Historic+54.5+mpg+Fuel+Efficiency+Standards">54.5 mpg national average by 2025</a> ...</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our bodies cannot produce many of the nutrients</strong> we need, so they must be found in the food we eat and the supplements we take every day. Additionally, if the food we are eating is lacking nutrients, then supplementing can really be beneficial in staying healthy</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1998 a group, of mostly youth, from Mary and Ty Spire’s church in Florence, SC went to Managua, Nicaragua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon returning, they shared stories of the beautiful families they met, the 3<sup>rd</sup> world living conditions, and starving children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were so hungry they would eat the leaves off of nearby trees just to stop the hunger pains for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary was moved to prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While cleaning houses, her full-time job, she would pray and weep 6 to 8 hours every day for several weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She learned to hear from The Lord in new ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She heard the audible voice of our Heavenly Father say, “Mary, I want you to send a container to Nicaragua.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took a few weeks to figure out that G+d indeed meant a shipping container and not the plastic storage bin Mary had in her mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through praying, listening, and depending on The Lord she was able to coordinate and procure enough resources to ship not only a single container, but three containers to Nicaragua!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In October of 1998, the infamous Hurricane Mitch decimated Nicaragua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For almost 3 days the category 5 storm tore roofs and houses apart with 180 mph winds. The storm dropped anywhere from 1 to 6 feet of rain which caused major flooding and landslides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In January 1999, Mary’s small group from Florence, SC and the 3 containers sent months earlier were the first outside aid to reach victims!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary had never flown on a plane, she had never traveled to another country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was trying to be obedient to The Lord and cultivating the desires He had put on her heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she arrived with her team the poverty and need were readily apparent, but she started asking the question, “Why aren’t these kids in school?”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that first trip they had a clinic and an evangelism team, but she began asking The Lord what was next? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God has given Mary favor with the local government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After she arrived with her group and the containers some government officials approached her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought they were going to put her in jail, so she prayed, “Lord what do you want to tell them?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary expressed her intention of building a school and applying for non-profit status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The officials began weeping and were asking, “Why are we crying?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t cry!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She simply told them that is the power of G+d they are feeling and it is overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government officials received everything that Mary’s group had to give.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through subsequent prayer and action, God’s Ministries International was established, defying a lot of the supposed truths about Nicaragua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1) Shipping containers won’t make it through customs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is impossible to get non-profit status in both the U.S. and Nicaragua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(3) Problems of poverty and government corruption are too widespread to make an impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they continue today, by listening to The Lord and obeying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-In February 2000, Escuela de Dios I was built in Los Torres barrio as a feeding center, church gathering place, and elementary school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-In 2002, Escuela de Dios II was built in Manchester as a feeding center, church gathering place, and pre-K school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-In 2008, Mary heard The Lord say to close Escuela de Dios I, because the money would not be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GMI turned the school into a job training center for local women and soon after the government announced they would provide free education for all children!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Currently, The day-to-day ministry is run from Nicaragua now by Logos Rhemas church led by Pastor Ernesto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Escuela de Dios I is now a Bible School for about 300 people!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> There are 5 neighborhoods with feeding programs and Sunday schools! Two of those "neighborhoods" are communities in city landfills.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span>interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-74580304860653279392012-10-22T17:33:00.002-07:002012-10-22T17:33:52.885-07:00Nicaragua Brief<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Brief History:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. The west of the country has a similar culture to other Spanish-speaking Latin American countries and is composed of mostly Mestizos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eastern half of the country still holds much of the British influence and English is the first language of most people in this region and its culture resembles other Caribbean nations. There is a large population of people of African descent, as well as a smaller Garifuna population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. After losing free and fair elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra was elected president in 2006. The 2008 municipal elections were marred by widespread irregularities. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being rebuilt, but democratic institutions have been weakened under the ORTEGA administration<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Country size:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">120,254 sq km (slightly smaller than New York state), largest in C. America, but least densely populated</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Region:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Located in Central America, Nicaragua borders Honduras to the north, Costa Rica to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to east. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is a warm and friendly land of lakes and mountains; rivers and volcanoes, sea and sun. Nicaragua has three distinct geographical regions: the Pacific Lowlands, the North-Central Mountains and the Atlantic Lowlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lago de Nicaragua is the largest body of freshwater in Central America.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Population:<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">5,675,356 in 2007<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ethnicity:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Economy:<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Distribution of income is one of the most unequal in the world; based mainly on agriculture (coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, seafood, mango, papaya, avocado, tamarindo, cattle), textiles and apparel, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and growing tourism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ranked 2<sup>nd</sup> poorest nation (behind Haiti) in Latin America and Caribbean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The incidence of poverty is highest among rural populations, where 46 percent live in poverty and 15.1 percent live in extreme poverty.</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day."</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now, the UN means well, but with all their facts, figures, Millenium goals, monetary wealth and actual on-the-ground projects they have only been mildly successful at getting clean water to all those needing it. We believe that G+d is the best Father, He is good all of the time, and He never intended for those He created in His own image to live in any sort of poverty. Jesus has answers to all of our problems and He chooses to work through His church to solve these problems. We, The Church, now need to step up in love, prayer, and generosity. Here are a couple organizations we are praying with and financially supporting who are providing clean water around the world.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Seeds are the memory of life." - Isaura Anduluz</div>interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-88296564369496193382012-02-25T06:57:00.002-08:002012-02-25T12:33:40.285-08:00Life Abounds <br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are now an estimated 7 billion human beings cohabitating on our planet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a universe with approximately 300 billion trillion solar systems that have no indication of life, we are bursting at the seams. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than rejoice however, most of this exciting news has been smotherd by the wet blanket of doom-and-gloom reporting pervasive in popular media.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a child of G+d, I choose to rejoice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is important and beautiful in all its forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human life is an absolute miracle!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The diversity is absolutely astounding. </span>Each human is made in the image of Elohim, our Creator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His breath brought each one of us to life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sustains us each day and, thanks to Jesus, into eternity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Enjoy this perspective from Charles Cowman's book <u>Streams in the Desert</u> ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"It is not the great achievement of the Red Sea crossing by Moses and the Israelites that is so stupendous and miraculous. The awesomeness of the Wilderness Journey is the fact that approximately 3 million people were sustained for forty years in a small, dry, fruitless desert. Have you thought of what it must have been like to merely exist from day to day with every human means for survival out of reach? Let us look at a few facts to see how impossible it would have been for Moses and his people to rely upon their own means of subsistence: "To get through the Red Sea in one night they had to have a space at least 3 miles wide, so they could walk 5,000 abreast. If they walked double file it would have been 800 miles long, and it would have taken them 35 days and nights to get through. . . Then consider the amount of water required for barest necessities of drinking and washing dishes each day. It has been calculated that they would have to have 11 million gallons every single day." Now consider those figures and bare in mind that those numbers were not for the whole forty years. They were for every single day of the forty years. In other words, God placed His people by His own decision and plan in a situation where every natural source of supply was not available. He did that to let them know that He is Almighty, that He keeps promises, that He can be relied on, and that He is not limited to any particular set of circumstances or any particular situation. What was true for Israel is true for you and me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="woj">"<span style="color: #cc0000;">The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, but I [Jesus] have come that they may have life and have it to the full.</span><span style="color: black;">"</span> (John 10:10)</span></span>interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-23137430003370739922012-02-24T08:09:00.000-08:002012-02-24T08:09:24.540-08:00Big Fun Family Visit...Thanks for making time to visit ...<br />
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That was delightful! Thanks to Haley Shaw and Christopher Branch, we were able to raise a substantial bit of money for the big trip. interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-3212983196664912902011-10-29T11:08:00.000-07:002011-11-01T05:53:38.698-07:00Seeking a Masculine Holiness...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_mynYwF9hkUlAewEXlTU_qG-vrJuqqX2X3yvpNfw0nWWK0xPpL_w8ISUbksTOrLHWCq0Z564DdL2HoR0iu_3MqsWsGTZKRPkxsCVYerOrTsakxLAHiLbpZO5fYG_MxTgzMvPxuZvHZFv/s1600/CTStudd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_mynYwF9hkUlAewEXlTU_qG-vrJuqqX2X3yvpNfw0nWWK0xPpL_w8ISUbksTOrLHWCq0Z564DdL2HoR0iu_3MqsWsGTZKRPkxsCVYerOrTsakxLAHiLbpZO5fYG_MxTgzMvPxuZvHZFv/s1600/CTStudd.jpg" /></a></div><br />
I just saw this quote written by C.T. Studd:<br />
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"...Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God...and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ."<br />
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-from Norman Grubb's <em>CT Studd: Cricketer and Pioneer </em><br />
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Mr. Studd's time was from 1860 to 1931 and I can bet he made the most of it. He was born into a wealthy English family, but sold most everything in order to spread good news about Jesus Christ to people all over the world. This is a photo of The Cambridge Seven who went to join <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/missionaries/htaylor.html">Hudson Taylor's</a> China Inland Mission.<br />
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I am really enjoying that bit about having a Masculine Holiness...I am not sure what it means just yet, but it makes me want to give up things like worrying, complaining, not succeeding, and ordering vanilla latte's. Mr. Studd you <em>are</em>, in both deed and truth.interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-83642669257927577002011-10-25T11:45:00.000-07:002011-10-25T11:45:13.870-07:00Aaaahhhhh nuts......we missed it! <a href="http://www.national-awareness-days.com/national-nut-day.html">National Nut Day</a> was on Saturday!interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630621247832284247.post-62147229033125755922011-10-19T12:02:00.000-07:002011-10-19T12:02:12.577-07:00I HOPE YOU START FILMING SOON...The big film project <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818947958/i-hope-you-dance-the-film">got funded</a>! Congratulations to KT and all the folks working so hard to get this project rolling...<br />
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<a href="http://www.ihopeyoudancethefilm.com/#!">I Hope You Dance</a> ... and ... I already saw KT dance. Ha!interested in the unassuming, under-appreciated, and sometimes taken for grantedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225374599694007326noreply@blogger.com0