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Both Naomi & Nellie have been very busy with different obligations. They both will continue to put things on here when they have the time. Nellie will submit mostly under "CL'MASA-FAMIA", the newer name. Naomi will submit mostly under "Successful Christian Living", the name from years ago. About 1970 Christian Living was set up by Nellie as newsletters; in about 1975, Nellie added the selling of books from the Successful Living Business & started using the name of Successful Christian Living; Naomi worked with her family with the Faith, Hope, & Charity Mission during this time; later, Nellie's organization became CL'MASA-FAMIA and Naomi's organization became the Faith, Hope, & Charity Educational Group.

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Sorry, I haven't been on here

 April 5, 2014 Sorry, that I haven't been able to be on here much; 1) with my hands' problems 2) the lightening hitting & frying the computers and everything,  3) along with my going up & staying with (caring for) my folks, I just haven't been able to do much on here. My hands are healing very well, although I can't type for any length of time yet. The doctor's said that it would probably take at least 3 years. My hands are so much better now than they were before the operations. Hopefully, by next winter, I will be able to do a lot more on here. I have all new equipment (replacing what was fried in the electric storm). The new equipment is much more updated than what I had before. Now that spring is coming, I will need to be outside as outdoor chores need attention on our farm. I will work at updating you on our "Camp Dream" which is a priority of mine.  These blogs are important and tie in with the "Camp Dream".  We will start including more information on that.            Nellie Way Dezinski

I'll be back!

I haven't been on any of our Christian Living Blogs for over a year (it looks like). I've had trouble with carpal tunnel for the last couple of years. I've had both hands operated on now & am just waiting for them to heal. I hope to be back on here before too long. Nellie

Input from Friends From Around the World from Way Back

Input from Friends From Around the World from Way Back
Column Title -- Christian Living's Farming Blog JoLeAnah's Farm News with Uncle Zechariah & Aunt Leah Harmon.
Theme – Farming
In the late 1960’s through early 1970’s we started & published a newsletter with articles from persons from around the world. Now that I’ve retired from full time teaching I’m going through many, many boxes of materials that I’ve kept over the years & sorting through it, sending some to missions to use in their educational program, donating other materials to other causes, etc. Some, I need for the curriculum development work that I am still doing or for our camp programs. I just found some of these old news letters which I was looking for. They made me think, “How did I ever get these?? We did not have computers, internet, etc. back then. How did we get this information from people from all around the world??? I had to think a few minutes for the answer. Everything was by mail (it was a lot cheaper to send a letter in those days); starting in high school, I began writing to pen pals. Again, I had to jog my memory as to how I got these pen pals. I remembered, there used to be teen magazines with articles containing pen pal names, addresses, & other information. Also the group that encouraged me to start these new letters was The Faith, Hope, & Charity Missions, which was NaomiLeah’s family’s organization. Many in her family & her friends were missionaries and this was a group that supported them in pray, writing them letters, etc. It was between my pen pals & my writing missionaries, etc. that I was able to collect the information for our newsletters. I am still looking for the boxes with the original letters with snap shots of the pen pals & missionaries along with their last names. I just hope they did not get lost: I’ve been looking & looking for my white nursing Bible which had my family tree in that my grandmother filled in when I first went into nursing. Because of back problems, I later left nursing & went into education. When I went to Bible College I had taken educational classes also. I took nurses training & attended Bible College right after I graduated from high school.  I’m including the ethnic connections, if we have them, as at the time I asked the contributors to try and include information that they sent us that reflected on their ethnic back grounds. Enough on all of that; I just wanted to put some back ground to these articles. Nellie
Topic		Sent in by	From/Ethnic Connection
1.	Dairy Cows/Beef Cattle	Alena	Greece
2.	Large Fowl	Deandra	Brazil
3.	Goats/Sheep	Giselle	Germany
4.	Horses/Donkeys/etc.	Hashi	Japan
5.	Llamas/Alpacas	Kennis	England
6.	Small Fowl	Loretta	English from Delaware
7.	Exotic	Karina	Russia
8.	Rabbits	Manya	Russia
9.	Pigs	Moana	Hawaii
10.	Fish	Paloma	Costa Rica
Note – I’ll gradually add the above listed articles as comments, as I get them done; just scanning them is not working as the formats are too old. Nellie