Tomorrow, I head out for Honduras.
We’ll be taking a group of 14 to work with TORCH Missions, a group that builds houses, distributes food and supplies, and spreads the gospel throughout the region.
While I’m gone, I’ll be regularly updating another site: www.sbrccyouthmissions.wordpress.com. Check it out to see what we’re up to!
Keep us in your prayers!
In HIM,
Blaine Tucker
Somebody messed up and planned a major revolutionary change in the cell phone business the same week as the iPhone came out. Bad idea. However, no one heard it, but everyone should be intrigued.
T-Mobile announced they will be offering wifi cell phone calling. Basically, if your phone is in a wifi hotspot and you make a call, it will use that network for your call and not t-mobile’s network. As such, those calls will not count against your minutes. T-Mobile is offering free wifi routers (after rebate), so customers can use those at home.
While calling via wifi is not brand new (Skype), this takes it to a new level, having a cell phones with the capability to choose which network to place a call on. It helps T-Mobile by lowering the calls made on their towers and by convincing even more people to get rid of their landlines. It’s really win-win. It’s got it’s limitations, but should be good. We’ll have to see how the other providers respond.
I’m not sure how they do it.
I just got back from a visit with my family in Arizona. Kate and the kids have been with my parents while I do these camps and the mission trip this month. I flew in to get a little visit with them this past weekend, which was nice. My sister and her husband got to be there, too. So we had a nice, short little reunion.
As I’ve grown, I’ve come to appreciate those times with family, especially with my wife and children. Friends come and go. Jobs, too, come and go. People move in and move out. But your family stays being your family no matter what.
I draw so much strength from my time with them. Knowing that people think about me regularly and want the best for me- even after knowing me pretty well is wonderful. But, it’s also nice to know there are people who need me and that I fill that role for them, as well.
So, while I continue with this sacrifice of being separated from my Kate and the little ones, I’ll keep close the memories of our visit. I’ll layer my heart with memories of cradling Gabriella in my arm while rocking her. I’ll further layer it with Hudson’s high-flying body slams on my chest and my top it off with wife’s sweet hugs.
I often wonder how people life without a relationship with God. But I also wonder how people are able to walk out on their families and never look back. It just makes no sense to me. They are missing out on so much.
I just don’t know how they do it.