In Costa Rica Each church has a story and an impact on my life. I hope to tell each story here eventually. The header photo above is Vacation Bible School Immanuel Baptist Church, El Dorado, AR 1953. I’m near top center, head of table holding Bible, age 12 soon to be 13. My simple start …
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The Gambia MENU Intro & Maps (This page!) YOU ARE HERE 2009 November Return Mission (JUST PHOTOS now) 2009 June Return Mission (JUST PHOTOS now) Gambia Missionary 99-02 * (stories, journal, newsletter in “His Spirit” page – Fascinating!) 1999 Journal, MLC & Travel through Dakar to The Gambia 2000-20002 Gambia Journal Gambia Newsletters Gambia 99-02 Photo …
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The Gambia, West Africa represents some of the biggest miracles of my life and in some ways it was the happiest three years of my life up until that time. (Costa Rica is now the happiest!) It is also one of the most story-filled times of my life, represented by the Bantaba I am sitting …
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It is Wednesday afternoon and I got home about noon today from Hospital La Católica in downtown San Jose, our big, busy congested city and National Capital, about an hour and half drive in reality, though most people say about an hour. 🙂 I have no car and thus use my regular drivers here for …
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SUMMARY: Denominational Work for the Southern Baptist Convention UNDER CONSTRUCTION – I’m just listing the three agencies I served through for now, but will come back and tell more about them and what I did in each position. My biography books give a pretty good overview of work at these agencies and with less detail …
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One of my regular activities when not traveling and photographing nature has been to work on the total rebuild of my personal website while continuing to build a collection of Blog Posts or Articles about being “Retired in Costa Rica” which is now at the same location of my website, charliedoggett.net. I moved my personal …
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Feature Photo Above is Charlie Doggett with the baby Almond Tree he helped plant at Maquenque Ecolodge & Reserve, Boca Tapada, Costa Rica, April 2023 to help save the endangered Great Green Macaw. ABOUT MENU is below this introduction Introduction Finally in 2023, an update of this page, using a current photo made this year …
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I do not like to offend my many friends who still work for Southern Baptists and/or the now more general “Evangelicals,” but because Evangelicals have chosen to be overtly political in what I consider very “unChristian” ways, as possibly the main force now behind the current “right-wing,” the tea-party, white supremacists, Donald Trump, and the …
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As a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1962-65), I was one of many students who went to school full-time and served a church in the area in a part-time capacity, usually for long weekends with no classes on Mondays. In my case I was the part-time Junior & Youth Director of the Beverly Hills …
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In 2013 I joined a writer’s guild called “Word and Image Guild” for the Hermitage community that met at McKendree Retirement Village where I was living at the time (for 2 years). Most were older people like me and many were working on their memoirs and thus many of our writing assignments were to write …
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