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Good evening everyone.

I obviously haven’t written in a while. Life has crept up and I’ve been busy. I just finished fall term at school and walked away with a 4.0 GPA again. I’m very thankful for that.

I’m also finishing up a fire engineering academy at work, and that is finally done next week.

I’ve had things to write about, but I’ve kept them to myself so that I had more time to think about what I’m going to say.

So, in the next week or so I’m planning (hoping) to write a couple of posts about what I’ve been up to recently as far as church goes, because a lot has happened just in the last couple of weeks. I also want to take some time and read up on what others have been talking about and I want to comment on recent events such as Richland Hills COC adding a Saturday night service featuring instrumental music.

So, I’ll leave you with that teaser for this second. I’m hoping that my long absense hasn’t pushed too many people away. I’m sure that some people will get their notification email and come over and unsubscribe. I guess we’ll see.

-Clarke

Hello all:

Well…I did my first sermon last Sunday, and it seemed to go pretty well. I compared the churches in Jerusalem and in Corinth to my congregation and the problems that we are having. It made a few people mad I’ve heard, but directly, of course, I’ve heard nothing but good. One of our former elders suggested I persue preaching, but I already know I have no interest in doing that for a living….

Work has been insanely busy since I got promoted. We are waiting to move into our house, and I am busy trying to make new contacts and deal with problems, as well as deal with the political attention I am now receiving from above.

We also had our “TNT” program that I talked about in one of my prior posts. It seemed to go very well. We had two or three hundred kids in our building and I heard nothing but good on that.

So….at the moment, everything is very good, other than the busyness…and I’m finding I’m not praying as much as I was, but I am going to work on that.

Anyway, I hope to have some time on my days off to read and think about then come and write something more meaningful.

-Clarke

Hello all:

I’d like to thank you all for your prayers. I got the promotion I was hoping for, and my employer is now trying to get the house ready for us to move into as quickly as they can.

I found out on Monday, and since then I’ve had little free time. I assumed my duties as a corporal on Tuesday, and this coming Thursday I’ll be moving my office out to a brand new duty station.

Its very exciting, but time consuming. Things should slow down on Thursday or Friday, I hope, until we move. Once we are completely moved in thing should settle down into a normal pattern.

Again, thank you for all your prayers and support.

-Clarke

Hello all:

So, I dropped my wife off at work this morning, came back home, and found a large package sitting outside my door from College Press.

When I was at the Pepperdine Lectures, I had the occasion to meet Carl Ketcherside’s daughter. While we were talking she offered to send me a couple of books by her late father, and I agreed.

I lugged this huge package I found outside my door into the house, and opened it, and found 12 volumes of Hardcover books…”The Works of Carl Ketcherside”. The set is about as large as a smaller set of Encyclopedias, including his writings from the Mission Messenger magazine that he published.

This is more than I ever imagined. I expected to get a couple of paperbacks, and instead got this huge collection. I’m excited…I’m not sure when I’ll have time to read all of it…I shouldn’t run out of reading material for a while.

-Clarke