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JOURNAL Journal entries related to this 1999 Mission Trip to Kenya in the midst of selling my house, getting rid of everything, and preparing to move first to Virginia for training then on to The Gambia. Lots of work & emotions! June 4, 1999 – Kenya Mission Trip Preparation It is Friday evening and …
The Beatitudes & Me The first devotional I ever gave was in my high school Sunday school department at Calvary Baptist Church in Tulsa and I used the Beatitudes. As a shy, insecure teenage boy, these words in Matthew 5: 3-12 were powerful and comforting. As I remember, I just read them and made like …
This was written soon after arriving in The Gambia and starting my website there. It is still as I wrote it then with the exception that I went through and changed the present tense to past tense and the section now titled “From Here to There” was then titled “From There to Here.” This testimony …
That is the title of the latest book I am reading To Bless the Space Between Us by John Donohue, which is a book of Celtic Blessings. With this collection of blessings and his discussion I see how anyone can be a blessing to me and how I in turn can bless anyone. 🙂 …
Volume 3: 2000-2002 Gambia & Return 2000 NOTE: My Gambia Newsletters were more consistent and briefer than my journal entries which I kept using “Not Enough Time” as an excuse for not being more consistent after January 2000 (which was the first full month there when I wrote fairly often). 🙂 Though also referenced in …
2003 March 1, 2003 – Open House 192 of following invitations where sent out: —————————————————————————————– Charlie Doggett’s Open House (I’m finally in and settled!) Drinks, hors d’oeuvres, African art, photos, and music My new pool table, African Wuri, & cool people! Saturday, March 1, 2003, 6 – 10 PM Stay all evening or come & …
Sometimes I think I’m the luckiest guy in the world! Being “Retired in Costa Rica” is simply perfect for me, even if I never left my little casita and garden in Atenas! But on top of that I get to continue exploring one of the most beautiful and ecologically diverse countries in the world! And …
Here is the schedule of Christmas Festivities at Central Park Atenas with the stage being on government property across the street this year with park being remodeled. Lots of music and a lanterns parade at night plus more with vendor booths set up on the outer edges of the park — remodeling not stopping the …
Volume 2– 1990-1999 (My most difficult decade.) By Charlie Doggett The entries from January 22, 1990 through February 19, 1996 are many taken from my “Dad’s Diary for Julianne” (Juli’s Book) plus a mixture from other journals. The entries in “Juli’s Book”were written to Juli for her to have and read as an adult later …
Volume 1 – 1963-1989 By Charlie Doggett The most actual journal writing here is from 1979 on in what I loosely call “Juli’s Book” or the diary I began on her life from the time we knew we were pregnant with her. I have included other writings of mine, thus marked all of the others …
