• Jungle Abbotts – coming to you from Cameroon!
• Today’s Grace – actually home now, but just embarking to return to El Salvador!
• Across Cultures – all the way to Bulgaria, in fact!  Not sure where they’re from, though – North America, I think?
• Reaching Cape Town – obviously in South Africa!
• Landon Rogers – actually, in Landon, London, England – United Kingdom!
• Being in the way, the Lord led me… – and it looks like He led them to Mali!

• Acquitted:  …and Happy Anniversary!
• Amazing Love:  Thinking about what we sing. (Costa Rica)
• Good Friday and Alcohol:  Thoughts on an Irish controversy. (Ireland)
• Easter Cookies:  A variation on "Forgotten Cookies" to make with the kids over the weekend. (Mexico)
• Good Friday:  Yes, He was. (Romania)
• "Holy Week" 2010:  A video – as seen from a car window. (Philippines)
• Good Friday:  A precious baby gone. (Japan)
• How it happened…:  Don’t forget… (Romania)
• Sent to Coventry:  A saying – but what does it mean?  A story from the British Civil War. (Niger)
• Good Friday:  What a church in Uganda is reflecting on today.

• And how is your string?  If you don’t know how to answer, click here (Mali).
• Why the violence?  And why are leaders so silent about it? (Nigeria)
• I don’t know, how often do you ask for a cat at a gas station? (Hungary)
• Here’s a chance to give input at a blog – what kinds of posts would you like to see here? (Taiwan)
• Can I be content without – all this stuff?  Good question. (Brazil)
• "Could you tell me About Jesus, just briefly?"  Wow, where would you start? (Thailand)
• Why not just teach them all English?  Really?  People actually ask you that? (United Kingdom)
• This is certainly a favourite question for missionaries – what is your schedule like? (Chile)  Of course, it’s different for everyone – and changes once a week…
• What are you doing to support healthy family life?  This is kind of neat. (Bolivia)

It’s time to congratulate those who have completed 5 years of blogging!  5 years is still a good old age for a blog – in fact, these blogs are still older than this site (which started in 2005).

I’ve done this in the past, but I’m not sure if I’ll do it again – the more time goes by the more blogs are celebrating!  But here it is, at least one more time – Happy Blogoversary!

• Adventures With God serving in South Africa
• Musings of a Missionary serving in Thailand
• The Boyds to Columbia serving in Columbia (their former blog is here)
• The Kautz Family serving in Columbia
• Itsara serving in Thailand
• Always an Adventure… serving in Taiwan
• Coxes Quarterly serving in Germany
• les Davey de France serving in France
• Simplicity serving in Taiwan
• Under the acacias serving in Burkina Faso
• Life of a Steward serving in the United Kingdom
• The Ramblings of Norm and Debra Copeland serving in Guinea/Senegal
• Kingsley Clan serving in Ireland
• Into Rwanda serving in Rwanda
• Ramble Zone serving in Guatemala (AAAHHH!  They’re having a baby right now!)
• Kurt, Johanna, Kassia and Luke Metzger serving in Papua New Guinea
• Reflections of Refinement serving in Japan
• garcias2chile serving in Chile
• The Roe’s Garden serving in Germany
• Nanana serving in Mexico
• The Journey serving in the Netherlands
• The Naine’s Cameroon Adventure serving in Cameroon

I went on a hunt today to see if I could find some missionaries with podcasts (audio or video).  I know there are some out there, but finding them isn’t always easy!  Anyway, here are a few from my first attempt – but I’m hoping you’ll help me out with your comments and tell me about more!

• Starting in Nicaragua – check out the Missions Minded Podcasts!  Not sure if/how you can sign up in Winamp or iTunes or whatever – but you can listen on their site.
• And now, from Mongolia, the Remember Mongolia Podcast.  The formatting looks a little off, but they do play!
• And now in the United Kingdom we have Kouya Chronicle podcast.  There’s a link on the blog for subscribing in iTunes, but it didn’t work for me.  I did find them in the iTunes store under KouyaCast.
• I have a podcast out of Mexico City – the Finding direction podcast.  You can subscribe here.
• Finally, a video podcast from Mexico – Mexico Movies.  Subscribe here.

Sad to say, I found a few that are no longer functioning.  Come baaaack! 

Know of any more podcasts?  Leave your comment!

In honour of the event, Missionary Blog Watch is bringing you a few highlights from Europe – posts for you to enjoy:

• Let’s start with this Video Update – an overview of the ministry of Abe and Jenny! (UK)
• The challenges of teaching for the Lord in Classroom management and teaching abroad (Russia)
• Boa Pascoa! (Happy Easter) (Poland)
• Have you heard of this?  The tragedy of Norway’s Russ… (Norway)
• What a week we have had! (Bulgaria)
• Ready for a Crusade?  mission in postchristendom – questions that challenge assumptions (Cyprus)

Now for more, go check out the new Missionaries in Europe page!

The topic this month is poverty.  I’m going to do a couple of things here.  First, let’s look at some posts on the topic, including our two entries:

• No Getting Used to It – Macedonia
• Poverty and Community – Mexico
• Keeping Our Eyes Wide Shut – United Kingdom
• Value? – Kenya

All right, now.  I decided to add something else to this post that you might find interesting.  We’re going to do a quick blog tour of some of the world’s poorest countries. Below are a few of the bloggers who are in some of these countries.  Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re working with the world’s poorest people, but I think if you visit these blogs you’ll learn a bit about these areas.  Now remember, at least half of the people in these countries live on US$1 or less per day:

• under the acacias – Burkina Faso
• Livesay (Haiti) Web Log
• HAITI – CORAM DEO
• Our Journey…… – Liberia
• Malagasy Musings – Madagascar
• Flaming Waters – Malawi
• Chats with Cindy – Niger
• Life in Niger
• wings118 – Sudan
• Faders in Africa – Sudan
• Strong Confidence – Uganda
• paradoxuganda – Uganda
• Jonathan’s McBlog – Tanzania

This post was written to coincide with Blog Action Day 2008.

I’m not quite ready to give up on the blog carnival idea – stay tuned for more!

• Serving in Canada, the Karch family talks about a typical week and a few typical days.  (Incidentally, there’s no such thing as “typical” for a missionary)
• We can’t leave out those in the Yukon (Canada) – here’s their Mid-summer update
• Let’s move around the pole to Russia.  What is The Voice of Silence?
• How about Siberia, Russia?  I love this little slice of real life that Leif and Jami share.
• More changed lives in Russia at this wedding picnic!
• A good reminder from Kelly (on her new blog!  Looks great!)  This one is in Norway.
• Also in Norway, here’s a great question.
• A lot of people blogging about school starting – here’s one from the UK.
• A great slice of life from the UK – check out this ad for the summer holidays!
• A few goings-on in Ireland in this Miscellaneous Update
• And while we’re on miscellaneous, how about some random too (also from Ireland)?

• Life of a Steward:  Making friends in fun ways – climbing walls and Indian food, and how about these paintings, photographs and sculptures.
• Brandon’s Blog:  Be sure not to miss this video of someone the team has been serving.  Also, some thoughts on the shooting in Colorado.
• The Kurtyka Family:  Visit one of Glasgow’s poorest areas in a post entitled Poverty, and read about an International Christmas (and Boxing Day).
• IRELAND UPDATE:  Catching up with old friends, and Christmas in Dublin.
• Kingsley Clan:  Thoughts on the incarnation as an orthodox event, and some stats about teens online (we’ve gotta have some technical stuff here, right?).

Photo right:  The Kingsley family on Christmas Eve, courtesy of mhkingsley.

So, here are some of our most prolific bloggers (I don’t have a scientific way to do this, so it’s just a sampling in no particular order):

• les Davey de France – for a long time one of our most updated blogs
• following an unknown path – out of Taiwan.  Pictures, stories, links – beautifully done!
• Simplicity – lots to read here about Kenya
• The Poulette Family has a lot to say, especially considering they have a separate blog for videos too
• The Heart of the Matter – out of Ukraine
• Jumping between the UK and Africa – Kouya Chronicle
• Somewhere in South America – a relatively new blog, right now with lots on the Peru earthquake
• An even newer blog in Taiwan – Sandy’s Neipu Notebook
• garcias2chile (A Missionary Wife’s Journal)
• theag_news – lots of pictures, that’s a big part of this blog.  But these guys also have two blogs – theag_news ministry fills out the picture nicely (out of Mexico)