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Hi Piankhi & Xzyzst,
I recieved the zine, there are also already copies, I'll send soon. xx ju

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Hi Byron Paul,
I hope it is okay for me to use your full name.

I am slowing giving out the many thanks that are due to you guys and the bakers at our church. Today I thank the transcribers. I missed them before. It really does take a team on the outside and the inside to work together to have success. Congratulations on all you have accomplished through the Zine etc..

Next, I will be sending out emails to all of our awesome bakers and worker to let them know of your awesome, very unexpected gratitude. They will be able to pick up the "Message to the Church" in a couple of spots at church.

With Hope for Great Things Happening!
Kathy

Hello -- I read your most and transcribed it. It was so heartfelt and can really get a feeling for the challenges you're going through. You also have a sweet sense of humor, and you're very creative. Take care and hang in there! There are people who are paying attention to your writing!

Guys, I'm still not up to speed on how this blog goes but I do have something more to say. I realize why all your effort has hit me so hard.

My husband does not take very much interest in this ministry which is okay. However, he was extremely interested in your zine to the church. He says "interesting and well done." It is hard to get a compliment out of him so that is extra special to hear him say that.

More importantly I have come to realize that what scripture says is true. None of my family members follow Christ. It is hardest to reach those that know you so well. So your zine was a personal shot in the arm for me. I am grateful for you revealing the touch of God Almighty whether you realize it or not. The power in each of your testimonials has transformed my heart into a much deeper appreciation of what God is doing. Thanks for being you and sharing your giftedness with our church. With Love, Kathy

Hi Guys,

I just completed writing a group letter to each of you. I looked for the bamboo story that I mentioned in the letter but I ran out of time and didn't find it.

I really, really appreciated your openness and gratitude. You guys will go far despite being locked up!

Thanks again,
Kathy

Man Neff. Happy New Year. I gotta put some mula on ur books. Will try tonight. I’ll show Chris Ur pieces and he will respond

Forgot this: I am so very happy for you you have again a good contact with your loved daughter!

hello Robert,my Christmas I celebrated with friends, as Elke and Bart were at the coast and Leslie and her family in SD, in America.One lives alone and we can always connect with friends of course.Mom and me celebrated the 2 birthdays of the kids :Lynn, now 4 and Lars now 2 yrs.It was amusing and they recited their wishes. Lynn learned by heart a little poem and she does as if she reads it. She did it so well!Elke filmed it.Now I can enjoy it watching it.:) Lars got a horse head on a rolling stick; he can run around with it and Lynn got 5 hand puppets from me.We played a muppet show together.We ate a pie and afterwards good food and tomato soup she made.Flags were hanging at the ceiling; decorated as their birthdays fall only a week apart.Well Robert, mom knows I'm going to America to visit George.Shortly we will get a new terrace, so I've to make it empty, because works can start right after my return. Lately I went to listen to a candidate from The Voice of Flanders, a TV show.He's a 19 yr old young man who sang in that contest.His dad registered him!He worked in summer as a job student at that library and now they had invited him there to have a concert with his guitar.He reached far in that contest!I enjoyed his performance. A lady behind me had seen how I moved with the music and she talked to me later on.I told her I used to play the piano, but stopped right after my friend Greet(read Grate) had done eutanasia... :( But that I still painted.You paint?And now I can do an exhibition in September!The program books were already printed, but in the next one I will be announced.I am very pleased with it!Today I went with my bike to a poetry workshop, given by a known poet, Maud.She lets us do 2 exercises.We had to tear out snippets from magazines with sentences.Then we had to make poems with the snippets.We had fun and it was very spontaneous too.We all had good results!Only two of us had done poetry: Kerstin and me.Robert, I got the lovely photo of you and the dog.Animals are so friendly! :))I had sent money to Melanie... wonder if she got it? Keep all the joyful moments with your mom in your heart and cherish them for ever, Robert!Keep faith and take every new day as your best day.A beautiful saying, just for you:'I know everywhere in the life- desert how to discover one or another beautiful oasis.'- Heinrich Heine. Robert, hope you can find harmony in your heart and know there are good friends to watch over you. One is Rita. A big cuddle from far! Everybody needs a few cuddles each day.

Byron, I scheduled the wrong day at SQ. I went there this morning and I wasn't on the schedule. I'll be sending you a copy of the final zine. Talk soon.
Joe