Dumas Tract Meeting 2012

Was a great success except 41% of the Southeast congregations were not repesented. It was harvest time so I suppose many could not make it for that reason. Anyways it was a good meeting. Jeff Boese from Pincher Creek was flown down to give us talks on his experience in New England. As soon as I get the minutes I will share tips and stats that would interest the tract workers that read here. I am working on a quarterly newsletter that I send in the mail to the Southeast tract workers to keep up enthusiasm. My experiment with Op-Noah has been a mixed success. Most active tract workers don't seem to have internet so I end up missing contact with the core interest group I would like to connect with. As a result you may hear less from me here. I will rather post here international letter excerpts and portions from my newsletters if that project takes off. I have restocked my work truck with plastic covered tracts and am working at outreach in rural Alabama where I can as a fence worker.


As for my involvement in Haiti, I have to edit and fill in more on the book and I am also experimenting with growing bamboo for timber and erosion control on my place in Alabama. Hopefully I can get my hairless sheep on pasture before winter as well. I want to use the manure from the calves and sheep for fertilizer for my small future greenhouse that I have been preparing for. I have finished my bamboo porch and am just about finished with a bamboo wall on my yard. I am trying to get familar with working with the material, so that hopefully I can use it to the benefit somewhere here or abroad.......