Welcome to our home on the web. Here you will find information related to our family and our appointment with SEND International as missionaries to a Croatian sports and Bible camp.
My favorite kind of camping is Boundary Waters camping.
Here are six reasons why I like it.
1. I don’t have to do school or go to bed at a certain time.
2. I feel really close to God.
3. I get to spend lots of time with my family.
4. I love skimming across a glassy lake in a canoe.
5. I also like that the Boundary Waters is so big, leisurely, and remote.
6. I LOVE exploring new places. I usually can’t wait to see what’s around the next bend in the river.
There are lots more reasons, but I don’t want to write them all down.
In Croatia, we are going to be helping at camp, so here are 5 reasons why I like camp.
1. I like being with other kids my age.
2. I like the activities.
3. I like learning more about God.
4. I like the sort of excitement that always seems to be at camps.
5. I like making new friends.
Progress Meter is a Joomla module I created to allow a user to display a very simple vertical bar indicating a percentage of progress toward a goal. It is very configurable and used on this site as our Support Meter.
It is released as open source and is available here or off the Joomla extension site. If you use it on your site please post a comment on the Joomla extension site so I can the warm fuzzies of knowing it's used somewhere.
Once you install Progress Meter, you can set the following
Progress Goal
Current Goal Level
Meter Border
Meter Background
Meter Foreground
Meter Text Color
Meter Height
Meter Width
Module Text
The target number
The current level of the target reached
The border color for the meter
The color for the unreached part of the goal
The color for the reached part of the goal
The color of the text for the percentage inside the meter
The height you would like the meter to be
The width for the meter
The text displayed alongside the meter
For support for this module, you will need to register for the site and then go to the Forums.
Updated 02/21/2007
The following bugs were fixed:
Fix width descriptor to say width, not height.
Trap divide by zero error.
Fix percentile bar to not extend past module height.
Fix percent figure being written outside box on low percentages. It now writes above the percent line until it fits below the percent line.
I also added one feature:
Added macro codes (#GOAL# and #C_GOAL#) to Module Text so user can display goal and current progress without changing the numbers in the text every time a new number is entered into the Current Goal Level. Enter the goal and progress numbers as you want them displayed, use the macros in the module text, and they will display as you entered them. Don't worry about entering $ signs into the Progress Goal or Current Goal Level fields. The module strips those characters out to get just the numbers before doing any math.
You can use the module text field to display the Goal and Progress fields beside the vertical bar. Also, you can enter html codes into the text. I was able to embed a youtube video into the module, so if you try to embed a PayPal link and it doesn't work, let me know and I will see what can be done.
"How much longer 'til we're there? This is taking forever!" It has been two years since our appointment with SEND International to the Croatian camping ministry. We were hoping to be able to fly to Zagreb in January, but it didn’t happen. Some days are tough; we feel like we are living in limbo and we question why it is taking so long to get to Croatia. Most days though we have an incredible sense of peace that we are right where God wants us. Living in the missionary housing in Cambridge has been a blessing. We have met some wonderful friends, been stretched out of comfort zones, grown in our faith, and strengthened our relationship as a couple and family. We have shed more of our possessions and realize we really can live with a lot less stuff. And it has been great but...
We want to be in Croatia! So last weekend was especially exciting as four different families let us know that they would be supporting us monthly! WOW! This, in addition to Bloomington Baptist Church, individuals, and families who partnered with us in late December and January, leaves us at 87% of monthly support. We are pumped yet overwhelmed at your generosity and sacrificial giving. What a joy your prayers, support and partnership are to us!
Today Me, Ellie, and Dad went sledding.It was alot of fun! we pretended that dad was a horse, and we rode him!!!There should be a video of me riding him.
I had a new experience today. I have been making literally hundreds of phone calls in the past month or two as I have been trying to contact churches, verify addresses, and follow up on packets sent to churches. Apparently I have fallen into a rut. I just hung up on a phone call in which I said "Hi", and mentioned I was with SEND International and a ministry in Croatia. There was a moment of silence followed by the pastor asking if I was a person or a recording! Perhaps I ought to switch gears for a few minutes and stop the calling.
Our Family 
Progress Meter is a Joomla module I created to allow a user to display a very simple vertical bar indicating a percentage of progress toward a goal. It is very configurable and used on this site as our Support Meter.
It was alot of fun! we pretended that dad was a horse, and we rode him!!!There should be a video of me riding him.
I had a new experience today. I have been making literally hundreds of phone calls in the past month or two as I have been trying to contact churches, verify addresses, and follow up on packets sent to churches. Apparently I have fallen into a rut. I just hung up on a phone call in which I said "Hi", and mentioned I was with SEND International and a ministry in Croatia. There was a moment of silence followed by the pastor asking if I was a person or a recording! Perhaps I ought to switch gears for a few minutes and stop the calling.