
• A couple of our PIBC students will be going to Saipan over the spring break to teach English to 12 Chinese garment factory workers. They will hold class at night -- between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., when the women are off work. This is not only a service for the women but also for the local pastor who usually teaches the class and will be getting a spring break of his own.
• Researchers have discovered that dirt floors facilitate the spread of parasitic illness in urban slums. Installing cement "significantly improves children's health by interrupting the transmission of intestinal

• Cool way to grow tomatoes upside down using a recycled plastic bucket ~ link
• Michelle Obama put her arm around Queen Elizabeth -- and got away with it. Apparently the Queen has now entered the 21st century. ~ link
• I'm currently reading Ed Stetzer's Planting Missional Churches

• Now the United Methodists are doing the franchise/satellite thing. It's an interesting new twist on the phenomena when the bishop pulls the plug on an old nonviable congregation and turns the facility over to a dynamic booming church which needs space to expand. ~ link
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