I have to admit that sometimes im not sure what the point of this blog is (as you can tell by the lack of posts). So…what kind of stuff would you want us to post? Talking about us all the time is kind of boring…but it is benandbethwest.com….

We want to let everybody know about a big change coming up in our lives-we are moving to Tulsa. The basics are that we will be participating in an 11 month program which includes working at a church in Tulsa, training, and academic study. The program is very new (actually so new it barely even exists, we will be in the very fist group of people to go through the program.)

That’s the super quick update version. We would love to let you know more details, but we also don’t want to fill up your inboxes with stuff you don’t want to get. So, over the next couple months we will be sending out 4 or 5 emails with details about what we will be doing, why we are doing it, and a little bit of support raising info. After that we will send out occasional updates. If you want to get these updates just sign up using the form below . We wont send them to you unless you sign up. Well, unless you are our moms, then you get them no matter what. We will post these updates to this blog as well, so if you follow our blog you don’t have to sign up for the emails…but you can if you want to.

We thought we would try to convince you to sign up on our little list, so here are three reasons:

• You are our friend or our family and you care about us and want to know what we are up to simply because you love us.
• We think that what we are doing has some big important ideas around it, ideas you might want to consider, talk to us about, and even debate about.
• If you are interested in new ministries and how you can be involved with them…well, this is a very new ministry that you could be involved with.

So,that’s our pitch, sign up if you want to using this form:

You wont get an email every time we post to this blog. If you want to know when we post subscribe to the RSS feed.

A few housekeeping things:

• We will start being more active again this blog.
• I (Ben) have a blog at www.poolhousered.com, there is not much on it right now, but I think that I will be using it as a place to record  and discuss some of what we are learning about in this program, so check it out if you want as well.
• Our cell phone number will probably stay the same.
• Our email addresses will be changing. Let us know if you want our new addresses.

We occasionally send out emails to update people on our ministry and lives. If you would like to get these emails just sign up using his form. If you sign up you will get 4 or 5 emails from us in the month or 2, then one a month after that…if there is something worth sending an email about.

You wont get an email every time we post to this blog. If you want to know when we post subscribe to the RSS feed.

For those of you that subscribe to this blog by email, i just wanted to let you know that im going to turn those emails off. The plugin is basically broken…so its kind of pointless any way.

Dinner tonight = chips & salsa, edamame, a slice of leftover cheesy bread & a Jones Cream Soda. And the Mealtime entertainment: Summer Staff 2002 video.

Week5 is over, and i really dont have much to blog about. Summer Camp is so all consuming that really all there is to say is that we finised another week. 3 to go.

don’t worry, we will post some more interesting stuff later this week….really we will.

A lot has been going on this last week…

I took a little mini road trip with Ryan to Florida by way of Atlanta. I got to visit Justin and my brother and Lauren. It was really good to see all of them, and get to see where Daniel lives and works.

Then i came home to the start of family camp, where is was really good to get to see the Keena family. My parents went off the screamer:

now..finish up videos and pictures, Week5 starts in 12 or so hours.

I can tell its summer by the lack of blog posts (that and 230 kids running around camp), so here is the quick update.

Summer is going well. Honestly for me this part of summer is kind of strange. I feel like i do stuff all the time, but never really get anything done, instead of working on the web redesign like im supposed to be i end up fixing broken AV gear. The gear needs to be fixed, but so does the web site.  So, sometimes its kind of frustrating to not feel like im making progress on stuff.  There are all sorts of pictures of camp at the NLR Blog if you want to see a bit of summer camp.

Next week is the week between weeks…we don’t have normal camp, just a retreat group for a few days, then Family Camp. I have a friend who is moving to Florida so im going to drive with him to help him move then visit my brother, then fly back. My brother just bought a house (what…a house? That’s kind of grown up)…im excited to see him, where he works and lives…should be fun.

Here are a few random things you can look at: CQ Missional, Love Your Enemies, The making of Horsin’ Around, The Big Picture