The Rescue!

Our blog is back!  Rescued from the clutches of Google and who knows what else.

Phyllis and I literally spent weeks (if you count all the hours) trying to "check" our "auto-renewal button" on the Google Blogger site...but our first challenge was to find it!

Several pleas on Facebook and on the internet resulted in dozens of suggestions, outdated links (Google was practically making changes to the sites daily), and outdated processes.  It became somewhat funny to follow the incoming messages on a couple of the help websites...a suggestion would no sooner come in than another would come in saying the original process had been changed by Google..."this week."  And, of course, Google has no "real" people working for them.  It's all recorded messages with endless loops...very much like certain government agencies - "you're in the wrong line, you need to be in that line."

But, miracle of miracles, someone from Google actually called Phyllis!  (I still believe it was an angel.) That person led us to our "Google Dashboard" where Phyllis turned on the now infamous "auto-update" link!  Hoooray!  Now, we're able to reconnect with our blog...and begin updating the few faithful who might still be lurking out there somewhere.

One more comment: While we were able to get to our "Google Dashboard" to get us back online...it turns out the "angel" took us through what IT people call "the back door."  In other words, we still are not able to get to our "Dashboard" straight on.  That, we are told, will require another call...to someone somewhere who can help us.  (One of the few times we were able to connect to a living, breathing person, he told us he worked for the "supplier" of the website, not Google, and we would have to wait two weeks after we got our site back up and running before we could work directly with him.)  So, we're hoping and praying that there are no "glitches" that would require accessing the illusive "Google Dashboard," which, I now understand, is no longer called "Dashboard."  Obviously, "change" is the major driver at Google...which keeps us less initiated chasing after them just to stay current.

We hope we will be able to keep you all updated on the many, many things going on in our lives - and our ministry - this year.  It's all good...and it's keeping us very, very busy.

We love and bless you all!!