This is total blog-plagiarism. I’ve been wanting to blog about this great article that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel. Since my close friend and partner in ministry here in Budapest, Jerry already blogged it and as I read his, I couldn’t have said it better.
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My friend, Rob, who started a blog about making Christ known on the Internet, pointed out a good article in the Orlando Sentinel, “Connecting through e-vangelism” about what Tom and I are working on here in Eastern Europe. The two people mentioned in the article have been inspirations for Tom and I as we help our staff here in Eastern Europe develop similar sites for students here.

A free subscription is required in order to read the article.

Here’s an excerpt:

By Carol Scott | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted November 14, 2004

“To spread the gospel, evangelical Christians are using Web sites such as everystudent.com, run from the home of an Orlando woman for the Campus Crusade for Christ. It’s an effective high-tech link.

The girl’s plea for help didn’t make a sound.

Instead, it popped up silently in Marilyn Adamson’s e-mail in-box.

It’s not that I don’t believe in God, because I do, and I want to believe in the stories . . . I think I need God, but I don’t know how to find him. Can you help me? Wrestling with drug addiction, alcoholism and fears about a recent abortion, the 18-year-old reached out to Adamson’s Web site, EveryStudent.com, in January, asking for spiritual guidance. She had never gone to church or read the Bible, she said. She had gone online to search for answers from the anonymity of her home computer.

Adamson was ready to help. …”

Well, the Aggies ran out of gas in the 2nd of half of last night’s showdown with Texas, but I’m not too disappointed with our effort against the #5 team in the nation on the road.

It did create a couple of bizarre plays. With 30 seconds to go in the half, I had pretty much given Texas a 13-6 lead since they were 2nd and goal at the 1. Then, their QB fumbled and the Aggies rumbled 98 yards for a TD. Quite a turn of events.

Then, the most bizarre was after Texas blocked an A&M punt and recovered it in the end zone. The snap for the extra point was bobbled and the kicker went ahead and blasted it straight into the line. It was recovered by an A&M player who subsequently fumbled it. After it bounced around, it was recovered by the Aggies in the end zone. Crazy as it sounds, it was ruled a “safety” and since it was on an extra point, it was only worth 1 point. I think this rule is NUTS!!!! It didn’t matter in the game, but how can you blast a kick into the line and still get the point.

Now it is the waiting game to see what bowl game we get. It looks like the Holiday Bowl which would be fine with me!

Well, our washing machine bit the dust on Tuesday. It stopped
spinning and the diagnosis was a bad part that is unavailable in
Hungary. It was the owner of our house’s and they purchased it in New
Zealand so there wasn’t much chance of fixing it here.

We set out on Thursday to find a replacement. What we found out was
that Euro washers are much better than US washers. They do so many
things that US washers don’t do. The average cycle is 1 ½ to 2 hours.
The clothes don’t sit in the water, but the washer moves the water
over and across the clothes. The washer heats the water itself and
can get the water as hot as 200 degrees. Also, the spin cycle runs up
to 1200 RPMs and therefore gets the clothes almost dry before going to
the dryer. The down side is that they are smaller than US washers.

We found one after visiting several places and got it home only to
realize that it is smaller than we expected. Also, every time it
starts to heat the water, it blows the circuit breaker in the room. I
guess we are going to have to get an electrician to add a circuit.
What fun!!!

I hope we will get caught up on laundry. It seems that pile will never end.

Blogger stopped working on my last week. It wouldn’t FTP to my website
anymore. I don’t know what the deal is. It wouldn’t work all weekend,
but all of sudden it started working today. I had sent an email to my
website techies. I think they fixed something and didn’t tell me.

Well, it started snowing this morning.  The first snow of the season.  Right now the kids are excited and there is excitement in the air.  Unfortunately, in a few short weeks or months, this excitement will wear off and the drudgery of bundling up to go out, sliding around in the car, and shoveling snow will set in.  Last year, by the first of March we were ready to be done with snow and it went and snowed almost everyday for two weeks!!!

We’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

Everyone go by and welcome by brother-in-law, Grant English to the world of blogging. He is a student pastor at Grace Church in Little Rock and has some great insights and views. His blog is also connected to his new student ministry website. Go bye and say hi for me!

While researching mobile phones to replace my almost dead current phone, I found this. I can’t believe there is a big enough market for something like this. Also, if it wasn’t on Motorola’s website, I would think it was a joke, but here it is.

I’m thinking F16 fighter pilots can talk with their kids while flying now.

Motorola Motorola HS830 Helmet Headset

Last night was Kendall’s first performance of the musical Annie. She
played the part of Molly, the youngest orphan. They did a great job and
had lots of fun doing it. Of course, Kendall stole the show. She has
another performance tonight. Here’s a picture of Kendall and the other
orphans singing “It’s a Hard Knock Life” Kendall is in the middle with
the white skirt.

After 32 hours, Kirby Ann & I made it back to Budapest. All of the
flights went well and while on our 10 hour layover in Zurich, we took a
train into town and saw the sights. We were both totally exhausted, but
nevertheless, home. Here’s a picture of us at the airport as we waited
for our ride home.

Thanks for all of your prayers.

On Saturday I attended the football game between Texas A&M and Oklahoma.
It was a wonderful day. The skies were blue . . . the atmosphere was
electric . . and I had great seats (thank you Mary Jane Alexander)!!
I’m here to say that you can’t blame the Aggies’ loss on me. I have
hardly been to talk since Saturday because I left it all on the
field. I yelled and yelled and yelled. When the Aggies scored on a
fake punt and a fake field goal, the place went crazy. My ears were
hurting it was so loud. It was great to be back on the old stomping
grounds.

I only wish that we didn’t beat ourselves. Two fumbles inside of your
own 10 yard line is a little too much to overcome.

Gig ‘em Aggies. Watch out Longhorns. We won’t fold in the 2nd half
like Oklahoma State did.