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  • Who is the Global Technology Office?

    I serve in the Global Technology Office (GTO). We are a ministry under the big ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI). Our focus is to help build technology capability around the world so that everyone can know someone who truly follows Jesus. We help ministry teams find ways to be more effective with…

  • Taming the Abarth

    So Fiat is back in America. I was curious to know how the Fiat 500 felt to drive so took a spin with my friend Brian and Al the sales rep. I didn’t want the base model Pop so went for the stick-shift 160hp turbocharged Abarth model. In summary it was nice to drive. The…

  • Minion Birthday Madness

    Our family really likes the movie Despicable Me and are now quoting parts from it. Rebekah’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago. She got a Despicable Me Minion Madness video, and Holly made these for her class, out of Twinkies and cupcakes. (see picture) If this would have caught on a year ago, I…

  • So how was your sabbatical?

    I just finished my one-month sabbatical. It was great, but let me be more specific: We are studying the Westminster Shorter Catechism questions in my Sunday School class, and I could really identify with the first one, which is: “What is the chief end of man?” (Answer is to glorify God and to enjoy him…

  • Sabbatical thoughts

    I’m roughly halfway through the Sabbatical. It has been really nice to be free from everyday work/ministry responsibilities for two weeks. The 2 weddings and marriage conference were very good. It has been a challenge for me to rest and reflect; I want to check things off a list as they are completed. One reason…

  • Sabbatical like my brother’s Car

    When I was in Junior High School, my older brother bought a fabulous ’68 Plymouth Sport Fury for $200 from the kid down the street. It was blue with a cavernous back seat which is where I usually ended up. The Fury was equipped with a 318 V8 but only 7 cylinders worked. It limped…

  • Helping with Webinar

    Today the team of GCX Advisors (David H, Karin, and myself) held a webinar on how to add a domain name to your GCX community. For this site I recently added http://www.clowfam.org over the old name of gcx.org/ClowMinistry. Here is the link to our gcxblog site. Today’s webinar has been posted to YouTube with this…

  • Wash the Elephant

    I am not very expressive when I speak. This week our team had training from Millie, Dan, and Lindsay on how to speak more effectively. They are communication trainers with Keynote. For practice, I got to demonstrate “washing an elephant” in front of a live audience. Pretty sure the audience had more fun than I…

  • Tropical Storm Isaac Missed Us

    My favorite site this time of year is the National Hurricane Center. I have been accessing it several times a day for the last 3-4 days to check the “cone”. Last week we were in the path of the hurricane, but not now. We are getting rain and possible tornadoes, but do not expect any…