Sunday, September 16, 2007

Keeping in touch...

Hi guys,

I know that for many of you, you're wondering if we dropped off the face of the earth. The sad truth of the matter is that we can't keep up with all our e-mails anymore. I'm hoping that we'll be able to use this tool to keep in touch, so that at least you will be able to see what's going on with us. We'll still do e-mail, but we may try to blog more so that you will hear more from us. I feel sorry for all our wonderful Chinese friends who go months without hearing from us!

Probably most of you have not heard that recently Vikki and I decided to look at returning to China. We are thinking of coming back in the fall of '08 or spring of '09. That's all we know for now, but we are excited and are going to be making a plan for returning, Lord willing.

Here are some things that we'd like from you...

1) Definitely still keep in touch with us - we love hearing from all of you!
2) Let us know if you'd like to hear from us, whether you e-mail, want to ask a question, or whatever - let us know and we'll try to either blog, write, or call as soon as possible.
3) Be patient with us as we try to learn about this blog stuff - we don't really know what we're doing! If you have any tips for us, we'd be interested in hearing them.

Thanks, God bless you, and we hope to be in touch more in the future!

Love,

Jay and Vikki

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

such a cute family. Love it. I'll be praying about the choices you are facing. I think it is so cool you are teaching English to Hispanics now, I do that in school some but I haven't taught adults yet. Love ya'll- Sarah

soulster said...

Thanks for the email about your blog. I develop websites and blogs professionally as part of the mission work in NYC. Here's my advice:

1. Blog regularly.
2. Sign up for a technorati profile now and claim your blog so it is tracked as it grows (see technorati.com).
3. Customize your blog. Add images and color schemes to help it stand out.
4. Choose at least one topic of interest to include with personal posts that not many other people are talking about.
5. Build a blogroll and ask others to link you.
6. Blog about other people's blogs and websites.
7. Join an aggregator site (see rUrevolutionary.com for example) that collects content related to your topic(s) of interest.

If you have any questions about how to do the above, feel free to email me: ben [at] thetruthtree.com (replace " [at] " with "@" of course.)

Josh Kellar said...

Hey! You have been added to our Blogging list. I need to be better about blogging too. It was good talking to you the other day. If we dont talk before we leave for China, we will definetely call you when we get back! Audriana is looking so precious!
~JK

Anonymous said...

Hi guys, we enjoy your blog and the news! We did not know that you are teaching Hispanics english. I have recently teamed with one of the Hispanic men in our church to work with the the Hispanic church. See you guys Friday night
-mike and donna

Anonymous said...

hey, glad to hear that you guys are goin gback to china, i will see you there:)
velvet

Audriana's passport photo shoot!