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Yes, I have finally achieved fame.  I can retire, content.  I have a famous website.<\/p>\n\n\n
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No, not this<\/i> website.  Missionary-Blogs.com<\/a> was mentioned in the October 2007 issue<\/a> of Evangelical Missions Quarterly<\/b> (EMQ).  The article was An Introduction to Blogging on the Internet<\/i>, by A. Scott Moreau (editor of EMQ) and Mike O’Rear (President of Global Mapping International<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Actually, it was only a passing reference under the heading of Finding a Blog<\/b>, but I’ll take what I can get.  \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Missionary-Blogs.com<\/b> is getting close to having 500 active missionary blogs.  As far as I know, there’s nothing else quite like it on the internet.  However, they actually mentioned the site’s blog, and didn’t say anything about the lists of blogs.  I guess I need to make the lists<\/a> a little more obvious!<\/p>\n

But actually, that wasn’t the coolest thing about this article.  At the very end, they mentioned a very few missions-related blogs (9, to be exact).  In that list, they mentioned just three personal missionary blogs (plus one more that was mentioned in the text of the article).  And the grand finale was – the blog of Shari’s sister, Amy – Under the African Rain<\/a><\/b>!  How cool!  Here’s what they had to say about it:<\/p>\n

This is the story of a young woman beginning her international missions career with SIM.  As men who have been working in and around missions for decades, we enjoy the fresh perspective.<\/i><\/p>\n

So, I have a very<\/i> famous sister-in-law.  And, after all, her blog is<\/i> excellent!  Congrats, Amy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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