These posts are some of the easiest I've done, but I think they provide some telling information about who I was and how I came to be when I set foot on Austrian soil in 1987. I wasn't just an ill-prepared secretary; I was someone who had spent years doggedly preparing for missionary service specifically in Eastern Europe, what was then the Warsaw Pact.
And I was not interested in the Red scare. No, I had more methodically thought through the theoretical differences between Christianity and Communism, and had even tried to understand liberation theology. I've said all this before, but maybe these address are giving it a new credibility. I could start quoting parts of texts from the books I still have and maybe then you'd believe these other things too. But then it's hard to prove such things, especially so many years down the line, isn't it?
Mrs. Nellie Pavluk
15 Gal Crescent, Apt. 101
St. Catherines, Ontario
Canada L2R 7G3
USSR & Jewish emigres
Paulinum Seminar
Georgenkirchstr. 70
DDR-1017 Berlin
[This is where I had several friends I met while studying German in W. Berlin in 1983. I learned about the seminary while volunteering at a research center, but I got the address from someone in W. Berlin.]
Pravoslavna Cirkev
V Jame 6
11121 Praha 1
225-139
Polski Kosciol Chrzescijan Baptistow
ul Walicow 25 m. 12
00865 Warszawa 25
20 12 24 or 24 27 83
Persecuted Church Commission, Inc.
P.O. Box 1340
Kingston, NY 12401
The Pocket Testament League
117 Man St.
P.O. Box 368
Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
Possev-Verlag (Russian Books)
Flurscheideweg 15
D-6230 Frankfurt am Main 80
W. Germany
Prediger Seminar des Bundes Evangelisch-Freikirchlichen
Gemeinden in der DDR
KdoR (Baptist Union of the GDR)
x1276 Buckow (Mark Schweiz)
Klara-Zetkin-Str. 65
Tel. 212
[This seems to be an incomplete address.]
Dr. Walter Sawatsky
Mennonite Central Committee
Langendorfer Str. 29
D-5450 Neuwied
W. Germany
[He was one of the greatest specialist on Soviet Evangelical Christianity and his book Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II was published (1981) just before I became seriously interested in this area of world for ministry. I have no idea how he was regarding some of the ethical issues I dealt with when I arrived in Vienna. I will say that the Mennonites weren't present at the Vienna mission, so if there was any cooperation it was somewhere off the campus that I wasn't privvy too.]
The Romanian Missionary Society
P.O. Box 527
Wheaton, IL 60189-0527
[I believe this was the brain child of exiled Romanian Baptist church leader Josef Ton (pronounced Tsone). At one point, I audited a graduate level class from him at Wheaton College on the Theology of Suffering. Evidently the Romanian believers had developed an entire theological strain around suffering, much as we have ecclesiology and soteriology, which they had too, of course, being Baptists. Soon after Romania opened up Ton returned to his homeland. He never did want to leave, in the first place, so given the first chance to return he took it.]
Rektorat der Polnischen Kirche
Rennweg 5A
A-1030 Wien, Austria
Russia for Christ
P.O. Box 30,000
3009 A & B DeLaVina
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 687-7696
Revormatske Hriscanske Crkve USFR (Reformed)
Episkopsko Zvanje
Bratstva 26
24323 Feketic
Yugoslavia
(024) 738-070
Rimokatolicka Crka
Kaptol 1
41000 Zabreb, Yugoslavia
(041) 275-449
Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Trerkov
Ryleeva 18/2
Moskva G-2
201-2928
Rimsko-Katolickeskaya Tserkov
Vilnius gatve 4
233000 Kaunas
Lithuanian SSR
Rimsko-Ratolickeskaya Tserkov
Kijevas 16
Riga, Latvian SSR
213 898
[One thing that might be interesting to note that the Roman Catholics were one of the most persecuted in the USSR, that is they found it the most difficult to practice their religion as their canon prescribed. The reason is that they had an external leader, the Pope, and the Soviets, didn't like that, so they tried to undermind that, even though it's generally considered a major component of their faith.]
Reformovana Krestanska Cirkev na Slovensku (Reformed)
Svetoplukova 14
97901 Rimarska Sobota
Russisch-Orthodox Kirche in Exarchat des Moskauer Patriarchen
Wildensteiner Str. 10
DDR 1157 Berlin
509 91 91
Religiose Gesellschaft der Freunder in der DDR
Planck Str 20
DDR 1080 Berlin
207 15 25
[I'm not specifically certain in the DDR, but in the former USSR, certainly the pacifist religions also bore more persecusion for their stance on that issue alone. I assume this would have been true throughout the East Bloc and East Germany was one of the more thorough and predictable in carrying out rulings.]
Romesch-Katholische Kirche in der DDR
Franzische Str. 34
DDR 1080 Berlin
200 02 81
Research Center for Religion and Human Rights In Closed Societies, Ltd. (RCDA)
475 Riverside Dr.
New York, NY 10115
Russian Pen Friend Project
International Friendship League
22 Batterymarch St.
Boston, MA 02109
(617) 523-4273
[Here's another approach to ministry to the East Bloc.]
I think that's all for this time.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
435. Addresses. Pt. 5
Can you see how someone who might come with the kind of preparation that might include a background that included the knowledge and opportunity to possess this contact list might not be satisfied with being a secretary in the mission? You can't just deny who I am and try to stuff me in a box! But that's exactly how I felt and then when they made it difficult for me to have a ministry in Austria I felt like they were trying to force me into being a secretary and denying that I had prepared at all for the ministry in Eastern Europe.
Bosilika Muselin
Barciceva 141III
Zagreb, Yugoslavia
(Believer - friend of Mrs. D.G. Shaw at Shorewood [a church in Chicago])
Mission to Europe's Millions
Suite 116, 1077 Fifty-Sixth St.
Delta, B.C. Canada V4L 2A2
(604) 943-0211
Brian Beresford (Bonnie Lamont)
Martyrerkirche (HMK) e.V.
HMK, Postfach 1160
D-7772 Uhldingen-muhlhofen
W. Germany
(07556) 6509 & 8337
Hans M. Braun
Mission fuer Sud-Ost Europe
5900 Siegen 21
Geisweid, Im Wiesental 48 W. Germany
(0271) 8-30-61
Missionswerk Friedenstimme e.V.
Postfach 100638
D-5278
D-5278 Gummersbach 1
W. Germany
0 22 61 / 2 69 19
Methodistka Crkva (Bulgaria)
Badener Strasse 69 (P.O. Box 469)
CH-8026 Zurich, Switzerland
Magyarorszagi Egyhazak Oekumenikoas Tanocsa
(Ecumenical Council - Hungary)
Szabadsag ter 2/1
054 Budapest
Phone: 114 862
Magyarprszagi Baptista Egyhaz
Aradi utca 48
1068 Budapest
322-332
Magyarorszagi Evangelikus Egyhaz (Lutheran)
Puskan utca 12
1088 Budapest
128 656
Magyar Metodista Egyhaz
Felsoerdosor 5/II
1068 Budapest
224-723
Magyarorszagi Reformatus Egyhaz (Reformed)
Abonyi utca 21
1146 Budapest
226-408
Magyarorszagi Romai Kotolikus Edyhaz
Eotvos Lorand utca 5-7
1053 Budapest
173-161
Metodisticka Crkva
L Musickov 7
21000 Novi Sas
Yugoslavia
Mennonitengemeinder in der DDR
Donizetti St. 47
DDR 1147 Berling
5-27-50
Mennonite Board of Missions
Box 370
Elkhard Indiana 46515
(219) 294-7523
Mission to Europe's Missions
("Church Twinning Project")
P.O. Box 186
Myerstown, PA 17067
(Global) Missionary Radio Ministries
Box 8156, Stn. D
Ft. Wayne, IN 46898
(Global) Missionary Radio Ministries
Box 303, Stn. D
Toronto, Ont. M6P 3J9
Mission to Europe's Missions, Inc.
B3 - 223A - 10th St. NW
Calgary, Alb. T2N 1V5
Canada
(403) 283-6768
Mennonite Broadcasts: Media
Ministries MBM
1251 Virginia Ave.
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Mission Possible
P.O. Box 2014
Denton, TX 76204-2014
(817) 382-1508
Magyar Church Magazine
1657 Centerview Dr.
Akron, OH 44321
Open Doors (International Headquarters)
Brother Andrews
P.O. Box 47
3859 AA Ermelo, Holland
Open Doors (British Office)
P.O. Box 6
Standlake, Witney/Oxon OX8 7SP England
Ostkirchenansschluss der EKD
D-3000 Hannover 1
Ebhardstrasse2
(0511) 15295
Open Doors
P.O. Box 2020
Orange, CA 92669
Open Doors
Box 61, Station D
Toronto, Ont. M6P 3J5
Open Doors
Boite Postale 73
67140 Barr, France
Open Doors
Chemin de la Rosiere, 8 bis
1012 Lausanne, Switzerland
The Outreach Foundation
P.O. Box 34915
Bethesda, MD 20034
Operation Mobilization
P.O. Box 148
Midland Park, NJ 07432
Of course, I'm assuming that only the largest of these and only those that are the most mainstream might remain unchanged and even some of those might have changed. But for those familiar with mission work in that part of the world in that pre-fall of the Berlin wall era, they might remember some of these organizations and even the locations.
Bosilika Muselin
Barciceva 141III
Zagreb, Yugoslavia
(Believer - friend of Mrs. D.G. Shaw at Shorewood [a church in Chicago])
Mission to Europe's Millions
Suite 116, 1077 Fifty-Sixth St.
Delta, B.C. Canada V4L 2A2
(604) 943-0211
Brian Beresford (Bonnie Lamont)
Martyrerkirche (HMK) e.V.
HMK, Postfach 1160
D-7772 Uhldingen-muhlhofen
W. Germany
(07556) 6509 & 8337
Hans M. Braun
Mission fuer Sud-Ost Europe
5900 Siegen 21
Geisweid, Im Wiesental 48 W. Germany
(0271) 8-30-61
Missionswerk Friedenstimme e.V.
Postfach 100638
D-5278
D-5278 Gummersbach 1
W. Germany
0 22 61 / 2 69 19
Methodistka Crkva (Bulgaria)
Badener Strasse 69 (P.O. Box 469)
CH-8026 Zurich, Switzerland
Magyarorszagi Egyhazak Oekumenikoas Tanocsa
(Ecumenical Council - Hungary)
Szabadsag ter 2/1
054 Budapest
Phone: 114 862
Magyarprszagi Baptista Egyhaz
Aradi utca 48
1068 Budapest
322-332
Magyarorszagi Evangelikus Egyhaz (Lutheran)
Puskan utca 12
1088 Budapest
128 656
Magyar Metodista Egyhaz
Felsoerdosor 5/II
1068 Budapest
224-723
Magyarorszagi Reformatus Egyhaz (Reformed)
Abonyi utca 21
1146 Budapest
226-408
Magyarorszagi Romai Kotolikus Edyhaz
Eotvos Lorand utca 5-7
1053 Budapest
173-161
Metodisticka Crkva
L Musickov 7
21000 Novi Sas
Yugoslavia
Mennonitengemeinder in der DDR
Donizetti St. 47
DDR 1147 Berling
5-27-50
Mennonite Board of Missions
Box 370
Elkhard Indiana 46515
(219) 294-7523
Mission to Europe's Missions
("Church Twinning Project")
P.O. Box 186
Myerstown, PA 17067
(Global) Missionary Radio Ministries
Box 8156, Stn. D
Ft. Wayne, IN 46898
(Global) Missionary Radio Ministries
Box 303, Stn. D
Toronto, Ont. M6P 3J9
Mission to Europe's Missions, Inc.
B3 - 223A - 10th St. NW
Calgary, Alb. T2N 1V5
Canada
(403) 283-6768
Mennonite Broadcasts: Media
Ministries MBM
1251 Virginia Ave.
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Mission Possible
P.O. Box 2014
Denton, TX 76204-2014
(817) 382-1508
Magyar Church Magazine
1657 Centerview Dr.
Akron, OH 44321
Open Doors (International Headquarters)
Brother Andrews
P.O. Box 47
3859 AA Ermelo, Holland
Open Doors (British Office)
P.O. Box 6
Standlake, Witney/Oxon OX8 7SP England
Ostkirchenansschluss der EKD
D-3000 Hannover 1
Ebhardstrasse2
(0511) 15295
Open Doors
P.O. Box 2020
Orange, CA 92669
Open Doors
Box 61, Station D
Toronto, Ont. M6P 3J5
Open Doors
Boite Postale 73
67140 Barr, France
Open Doors
Chemin de la Rosiere, 8 bis
1012 Lausanne, Switzerland
The Outreach Foundation
P.O. Box 34915
Bethesda, MD 20034
Operation Mobilization
P.O. Box 148
Midland Park, NJ 07432
Of course, I'm assuming that only the largest of these and only those that are the most mainstream might remain unchanged and even some of those might have changed. But for those familiar with mission work in that part of the world in that pre-fall of the Berlin wall era, they might remember some of these organizations and even the locations.
Friday, August 31, 2012
434. Addresses, Pt. 4
The thing is there is maybe a certain human rational for paranoia in ministry, but I have a problem with it in spiritual ministry. After all God does say that he has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and sound mind (I Tim. 1: 7).
Now I know we are to use our God given intelligence and not tempt God, but we also are not to use the tools of the enemy, the tools of the world to do our ministry and a good part of my premesis is that the missions do exactly that. So whereas their words, their teaching might be good, their actions might be attrocious and they could be quite perfect examples of "do as I say and not as I do." Sometimes, though, not even do as I say might be recommended when the Bible is the gold standard.
I can't speak for how they act now in the world of missions to Muslim countries and still a few straggler Communist countries and a few other closed countries of various sorts, but I have little faith that things have improved over when the focus was on the East Bloc.
Jesus to the Communist World
P.O. Box 38
St. Thomas, Ontario
Canada
Jesus to the Communist World, Inc.
P.O. Box 2947
Torrance, CA 90509
(213) 533-5872
Jews in the USSR (editor, Nan Greifer)
31 Percy St.
London W1P 9FG
England
(01) 580-0881 or 636-0536
Jednoto Bratska (Moravian)
Halkova 5
12000 Praha 2 Czech
241 347
John XXIII Center
2502 Belmont Ave.
Bronx, NY 10458
(Devoted to promoting a knowledge & understanding of Eastern Christianity)
Keston College
Heathfield Road
Keston, Kent BR2 6BA
England
Farnborough Kent 50116/7
[see my comments under G2W, previous post]
Krisotova Pentakostna Crkva
Ilica br. 200
41000 Zagrev, Yugoslavia
Kosciol Ewangelicko-Augsburgski (Lutheran)
ul. Miodowa zl
Warszawa, Poland
31 51/87
Kosciol Starokaloocki Mariowitow (Mariovite)
ul Wieczorka 27/29
Plock, Poland
30-86
Kosciol Metodyslczny
ul Mokolowska 12
00561 Warszawa Poland
28 53 28 or 28 53 48
Kosciol Kzymsko-Katolicki
ul Dziekanial
00279 Warszawa
31 96 62
Kirchenbund Evangelischen-reformierter Gemeinden in der DDR
Troendlinring 7
DDR 7010 Leipzig
29-10-79
Reformed/Free Reformed
Last Days Ministries
Box 40
Lindale, TX 75771-0040
Liebeswerk Kirche in Not
Ostpriesterhelfe
Postfach 1209
D-6240 Koenegstein 1
W. Germany
The Lausanne Committee for World Evantelization
P.O. Box 1100
Wheaton, IL 60189
(Occasional Papers)
Licht Im Osten
Missionsbund zur Ausbreitungdes Evangeliums, e. V.
Postfach 1240 (Kullenstr. 1)
D-7015 Korntal-Muenchigen 1
W. Germany
"Light in the East" c/o Leon Folds
184 Mars Hill Rd. N.W.
Powder Springs, GA 30073
Light in the East
c/o W. Rennett
5828 Sherbrooke St.
Vancouver, BC V5W cN1
Canada
Latvijas Evangeliska Luteriska Baznica (Lutheran)
Kirov 37-5
Riga
Latvian SSR
Lietuvos Evangeliku Liuteronu Baznycia
Lietuviu gatve 10
Kaunas
Lithuanian SSR
Lithuanian Methodist Church
Apteegi 3
Tallinn
44-92-46
Theo Lehmann, Pastor
9081 Karl-Marx Stadt
Wittgensdorferstr. 82
30724
End Sun. every month 5 pm and 9 pm
[Then are the times/days when he had his famous youth meetings when young people came from all over the DDR to attend in his Lutheran cathederal. I attended one time when I was studying in W. Berlin. I'll discuss this when I get to this point in my auto biobraphy.]
Jim Lowden
Missionary Evangelism Association
4328 W. Parker
Chicago, IL
(312) 278-5556
[He was a mentor to me, but by the time I knew him he must have been in his 80s and had battled serious heart and cancer and was not able to work overseas any more, but his church was pretty much all Romanians. He had now patience for missionaries who made compromises to their faith to work in difficult situations and he himself had worked in Greece before it became the free country it is now and also in other Balkan other countries. He was a preacher and evangelist and also church planter. He was not one to mince words, but he wasn't a gruff man either. His faith was in God and not in some human machination to get the work of the Lord done. I'm sure he's long gone on to be with the Lord by now.
Lifegate Tract Ministry
P.O. Box 891
Indianapolis, IN 46206
(Gospel material in foreign languages)
I'm sure I'm actually just touching the tip of the iceberg and there were many other things going on than I knew about, but this gives you an idea. The things that are in-country addresses, such as denominational headquarters, you must understand would have been under some level cooperation with the government to exist, and that would have varied from country to country and even from denomination to denomination. Some denominations may have been more favored within a country than another.
So I didn't have addresses and phone numbers (or only a handful) of unregistered Christianity and believers in the East Bloc when I went to Vienna to join the mission. Still, I had done the research at a couple of the leading organizations, so I did have a good understanding, and I had read quite a bit and developed my own library on the subject as well. So even if I didn't have specific addresses I still had a good idea what we were up against, and when you add that to my experiences before going to Vienna to join the mission, then that just compounds the understanding all the more.
Now I know we are to use our God given intelligence and not tempt God, but we also are not to use the tools of the enemy, the tools of the world to do our ministry and a good part of my premesis is that the missions do exactly that. So whereas their words, their teaching might be good, their actions might be attrocious and they could be quite perfect examples of "do as I say and not as I do." Sometimes, though, not even do as I say might be recommended when the Bible is the gold standard.
I can't speak for how they act now in the world of missions to Muslim countries and still a few straggler Communist countries and a few other closed countries of various sorts, but I have little faith that things have improved over when the focus was on the East Bloc.
Jesus to the Communist World
P.O. Box 38
St. Thomas, Ontario
Canada
Jesus to the Communist World, Inc.
P.O. Box 2947
Torrance, CA 90509
(213) 533-5872
Jews in the USSR (editor, Nan Greifer)
31 Percy St.
London W1P 9FG
England
(01) 580-0881 or 636-0536
Jednoto Bratska (Moravian)
Halkova 5
12000 Praha 2 Czech
241 347
John XXIII Center
2502 Belmont Ave.
Bronx, NY 10458
(Devoted to promoting a knowledge & understanding of Eastern Christianity)
Keston College
Heathfield Road
Keston, Kent BR2 6BA
England
Farnborough Kent 50116/7
[see my comments under G2W, previous post]
Krisotova Pentakostna Crkva
Ilica br. 200
41000 Zagrev, Yugoslavia
Kosciol Ewangelicko-Augsburgski (Lutheran)
ul. Miodowa zl
Warszawa, Poland
31 51/87
Kosciol Starokaloocki Mariowitow (Mariovite)
ul Wieczorka 27/29
Plock, Poland
30-86
Kosciol Metodyslczny
ul Mokolowska 12
00561 Warszawa Poland
28 53 28 or 28 53 48
Kosciol Kzymsko-Katolicki
ul Dziekanial
00279 Warszawa
31 96 62
Kirchenbund Evangelischen-reformierter Gemeinden in der DDR
Troendlinring 7
DDR 7010 Leipzig
29-10-79
Reformed/Free Reformed
Last Days Ministries
Box 40
Lindale, TX 75771-0040
Liebeswerk Kirche in Not
Ostpriesterhelfe
Postfach 1209
D-6240 Koenegstein 1
W. Germany
The Lausanne Committee for World Evantelization
P.O. Box 1100
Wheaton, IL 60189
(Occasional Papers)
Licht Im Osten
Missionsbund zur Ausbreitungdes Evangeliums, e. V.
Postfach 1240 (Kullenstr. 1)
D-7015 Korntal-Muenchigen 1
W. Germany
"Light in the East" c/o Leon Folds
184 Mars Hill Rd. N.W.
Powder Springs, GA 30073
Light in the East
c/o W. Rennett
5828 Sherbrooke St.
Vancouver, BC V5W cN1
Canada
Latvijas Evangeliska Luteriska Baznica (Lutheran)
Kirov 37-5
Riga
Latvian SSR
Lietuvos Evangeliku Liuteronu Baznycia
Lietuviu gatve 10
Kaunas
Lithuanian SSR
Lithuanian Methodist Church
Apteegi 3
Tallinn
44-92-46
Theo Lehmann, Pastor
9081 Karl-Marx Stadt
Wittgensdorferstr. 82
30724
End Sun. every month 5 pm and 9 pm
[Then are the times/days when he had his famous youth meetings when young people came from all over the DDR to attend in his Lutheran cathederal. I attended one time when I was studying in W. Berlin. I'll discuss this when I get to this point in my auto biobraphy.]
Jim Lowden
Missionary Evangelism Association
4328 W. Parker
Chicago, IL
(312) 278-5556
[He was a mentor to me, but by the time I knew him he must have been in his 80s and had battled serious heart and cancer and was not able to work overseas any more, but his church was pretty much all Romanians. He had now patience for missionaries who made compromises to their faith to work in difficult situations and he himself had worked in Greece before it became the free country it is now and also in other Balkan other countries. He was a preacher and evangelist and also church planter. He was not one to mince words, but he wasn't a gruff man either. His faith was in God and not in some human machination to get the work of the Lord done. I'm sure he's long gone on to be with the Lord by now.
Lifegate Tract Ministry
P.O. Box 891
Indianapolis, IN 46206
(Gospel material in foreign languages)
I'm sure I'm actually just touching the tip of the iceberg and there were many other things going on than I knew about, but this gives you an idea. The things that are in-country addresses, such as denominational headquarters, you must understand would have been under some level cooperation with the government to exist, and that would have varied from country to country and even from denomination to denomination. Some denominations may have been more favored within a country than another.
So I didn't have addresses and phone numbers (or only a handful) of unregistered Christianity and believers in the East Bloc when I went to Vienna to join the mission. Still, I had done the research at a couple of the leading organizations, so I did have a good understanding, and I had read quite a bit and developed my own library on the subject as well. So even if I didn't have specific addresses I still had a good idea what we were up against, and when you add that to my experiences before going to Vienna to join the mission, then that just compounds the understanding all the more.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
433. Addresses, Pt. 3
I didn't originally intend to post these addresses, but I don't think it's such a bad idea after all. It was 30 or 40 of the general sort of larger missions that I wrote to before I went to Vienna. Half of them didn't respond and most of them that did respond basically asked me if I was a spy or infiltrating their ranks or something. Only a couple responded at all rationally and one of them was the mission I went to Vienna with.
These mission were paranoid, really. So that was the world we were working in and I guess that's what I entered when I arrived in Vienna. At least that's one part, I guess of what might have been going on when I was there.
Friends in the West
3505 NE 115th
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 363-7560
Friends in the West
BCM Box 4550
London, WCIV 6XX
U.K.
F.W. Faxon Co. Inc.
15 Southwest Park
Westwood, MA 02090
(for info on East European nations write to)
Frese, Goran (Paulinum Student)
1241 Rauen
Chausseestr. 45
DDR
[He was among the friends I made at the Paulinum seminary in E. Berlin when I was studying German in W. Berlin in 1982.]
Finnish Bible Society
PO Box 253
00183 Helsinki 18
Finland
Greater European Mission (GEM)
Box 668
Wheaton, IL 60189
(312) 462-8050
Eastern European Bible Institute
(Michael Johnson)
Postfach 145
A-1171 Wien, Austria
Lewinskygasse 30
A-1160 Wien
45-58-30
Glaube in der Zweity Welt (G2W)
Bergstrasse 6
CH-8702 Zollikon-Zurich
Switzerland
(01) 391-3748
[In my mind G2W and Keston College were the two leading centers in the world for acquisition, study, reporting and dissemination of information regarding religion in the Warsaw Pact and other nearby countries, like Yugoslavia and Albania.]
The Global Outreach Mission (their international headquarters)
Box 711
Buffalo, NY 14240
Global Outreach Mission
Box 1210
St. Catherines, Ontario L2R 7A7
Canada
The Gairdner Ministries
1660 Broadway
Kansas City, MO 64108
(my notes say "muslims in USSR" so I think that was their focus)
Gateway Fellowship (Open Doors)
Hornsway House; 109 Abingdon Rd.
Standlake; Witney
Oxfordshire
UK
Gypsies for Christ
4260 - 147th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA 98006
Mr. Trevor Harris (British SGA)
258 Pound Rd.
Oldbury, Warly
W. Midlands
England B68 8NQ
Hilfsaktion Martyrerkirche, e.V.
Postfach 1160
D-7772 Uhldingen-Muehlhofen1
Germany
07556, 6509 + 8337
Helsinki Watch (publishes prisoner directory)
205 East 42th St.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 867-7035
Hungarian Bible Society
P.O. Box 5
1440 Budapest XIV
Hungary
International Representation, Inc.
Georgi P. Vins
P.O. Box 1188
Elkhart, IN 46515-1188
Institute for Bible Translation
Box 20100 S-10460
Stockholm, Sweden
08-94 54 14
In Touch Ministries
Bill Bathman, Presiden
510 East Bell de Mar
Temple, AZ 85283
(602) 839-4747 (office)
(602) 839-2323 (home)
International Correspondence Inst.
Chausee de Waterloo, 45
1640 - St. Genese, Belgium
(Russian Lang. Bible Correspondence courses)
International Crusades
Box 203
Prospect Heights, IL 60070
(312) 870-3800
Issachar
P.O. Box 30727
Seattle, WA 98103
(Publications)
I think that's enough for this time. Isn't it amazing how much ministry was going on? And so much of it was hush-hush, right? But all these things were going on and people were doing all their various things and it all added up to quite an amazing amount of ministry when you think about it. I still have a lot to go.
These mission were paranoid, really. So that was the world we were working in and I guess that's what I entered when I arrived in Vienna. At least that's one part, I guess of what might have been going on when I was there.
Friends in the West
3505 NE 115th
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 363-7560
Friends in the West
BCM Box 4550
London, WCIV 6XX
U.K.
F.W. Faxon Co. Inc.
15 Southwest Park
Westwood, MA 02090
(for info on East European nations write to)
Frese, Goran (Paulinum Student)
1241 Rauen
Chausseestr. 45
DDR
[He was among the friends I made at the Paulinum seminary in E. Berlin when I was studying German in W. Berlin in 1982.]
Finnish Bible Society
PO Box 253
00183 Helsinki 18
Finland
Greater European Mission (GEM)
Box 668
Wheaton, IL 60189
(312) 462-8050
Eastern European Bible Institute
(Michael Johnson)
Postfach 145
A-1171 Wien, Austria
Lewinskygasse 30
A-1160 Wien
45-58-30
Glaube in der Zweity Welt (G2W)
Bergstrasse 6
CH-8702 Zollikon-Zurich
Switzerland
(01) 391-3748
[In my mind G2W and Keston College were the two leading centers in the world for acquisition, study, reporting and dissemination of information regarding religion in the Warsaw Pact and other nearby countries, like Yugoslavia and Albania.]
The Global Outreach Mission (their international headquarters)
Box 711
Buffalo, NY 14240
Global Outreach Mission
Box 1210
St. Catherines, Ontario L2R 7A7
Canada
The Gairdner Ministries
1660 Broadway
Kansas City, MO 64108
(my notes say "muslims in USSR" so I think that was their focus)
Gateway Fellowship (Open Doors)
Hornsway House; 109 Abingdon Rd.
Standlake; Witney
Oxfordshire
UK
Gypsies for Christ
4260 - 147th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA 98006
Mr. Trevor Harris (British SGA)
258 Pound Rd.
Oldbury, Warly
W. Midlands
England B68 8NQ
Hilfsaktion Martyrerkirche, e.V.
Postfach 1160
D-7772 Uhldingen-Muehlhofen1
Germany
07556, 6509 + 8337
Helsinki Watch (publishes prisoner directory)
205 East 42th St.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 867-7035
Hungarian Bible Society
P.O. Box 5
1440 Budapest XIV
Hungary
International Representation, Inc.
Georgi P. Vins
P.O. Box 1188
Elkhart, IN 46515-1188
Institute for Bible Translation
Box 20100 S-10460
Stockholm, Sweden
08-94 54 14
In Touch Ministries
Bill Bathman, Presiden
510 East Bell de Mar
Temple, AZ 85283
(602) 839-4747 (office)
(602) 839-2323 (home)
International Correspondence Inst.
Chausee de Waterloo, 45
1640 - St. Genese, Belgium
(Russian Lang. Bible Correspondence courses)
International Crusades
Box 203
Prospect Heights, IL 60070
(312) 870-3800
Issachar
P.O. Box 30727
Seattle, WA 98103
(Publications)
I think that's enough for this time. Isn't it amazing how much ministry was going on? And so much of it was hush-hush, right? But all these things were going on and people were doing all their various things and it all added up to quite an amazing amount of ministry when you think about it. I still have a lot to go.
432. Addresses, Pt. 2
So the thing is that for me to have bothered to collect all these addresses could be understood many ways, I suppose, but among those, I think, are that it could mean that I was either dead serious in my preparations to become a missionary to Eastern Europe and understant that part of the world, or else I was intent on undermining the work there and using this information for disruptive purposes. I assure you the reason was the former.
I've already discussed a lot here about how I had a reasonable grip on missions to Eastern Europe - although not as good a grip as I thought to find what I did in the Vienna mission, but I didn't gain that knowledge and understanding as an insider. Well, some of it I did, but it wasn't enough because they didn't know how much I knew because I'd gained it on my own apart from the missions. This includes skills as well as knowledge, skills like being able to carry oneself in Eastern Europe.
I'm skipping some addresses.
Christian Action for East-West Reconciliation c/o Rev. Brian G. Cooper
21 Sims Close
Romford, Essex RMI 3QT
UK
Christians Associated for Relationships w/Eastern Europe. (CAREE)
Dr. Paul Mojzes
Rosemont College
Rosemont, PA 19010
Communaute de Secours au Eglises Martyres Association Evangelique
Case Postale 57
CH-1211 Geneve 11
CSEM
Boite Postale 226
F74104 Annemasse-cedex, France
Catacombes (ed. Sergiu Grossu)
B.P. 98
92405 Courbevoic Cedex
CC.P. 120629Z, Paris, France
Cirkev Ceskoslovenska Husitska [Hussite]
V.V. Kujbseva 5
16626 Praha-Dejvice, Czech.
320-041-3
Cirkev Starokatolicka [Old Catholic]
Blodkova4
13000 Praha 3
Czech
278-777
Cirkev Bratska (Reformed)
Soukenicka 15
11000Praha 1
Czech
61-898
Chrzescijanska Rada Ekumenicza w Posce [a few letters are hard to make out]
ul Willowa 1
00790 Warszawa
Christian Solidarity International
Forchstrasse 280
Postfach 52
CH-8029
Zurich, Switzerland
01/55-66-46
Christian Action
3406 Brauer Court
Middleton, WI 53562
Evangelical Free Church of Hershey [my note: Russian Radio Bible Institute B.C.U.]
P.O. Box 82
Hershey, PA 17033
Eastern European Bible Mission
P.O. Box 198
47000 AD Roosendaal
Holland
EEBM (Hank Paulson)
P.O. Box 73
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
(415) 825-4939
Eastern European Mission (Rev. Paul Peterson)
232 North Lk. Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
EEM, Inc.
Midwest field rep: Bernanrd Kruse
1727 Cristal Lane
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
(312) 593-5139
EGLISI - Service de Presse de L'Eglise du Silence
Mr. Willy Fautre
40, rue de l'Enseignement
B-7490 Braine-Le-Comte
Belgium
(067) 55-56-14
Dr. Elliott
Asbury College
Wilmore, Kentucky, 40390
(collecting info on missions, etc. to Sov. bloc)
EESTI Evangeeliumi Luteriusu Kirik (Lutheran)
Raamatukogu Tn. 8
Tallinn
Estonian SSR
Evangelicka Cirkev Metodisticka
Jecna 19
12000 Praha 2
Czech
290-623
Ekumenicka Rada Cirkvi v Ceske Socialisticke Republice
Vitkova 13
18600 Praha 8 - Karlin
Czech
227-581
Evangelische Brueder - Unitaet: Distrikt Herrnhut (Moravian)
Voglshof
DDR 8709 Herrnhut
Evangelisch-lutherische (altluth) Kirthe in der DDR [old Lutheran]
Annen Str 53
DDR 1020 Berlin
2 79 35 83
The next one in the book is one I probably shouldn't have. I'm positive it came from my summer short term ministry trip to Vienna in 1982 on one of the trips I took into Eastern Europe. I shouldn't have kept that address. It's for a person and it says next to the person's address "lit deliveries." So I'm not going to put it here.
Eastern European Evangelism
Gordon Balisky
PO Box 7078
Seattle WA 98133
(206) 546-3900
Evangelical Baptist Camp
R.R. 1, Box 131
Ashford, CN 06278
(203) 429-2743
(Russian & Ukrainian) [I had an interest in imigrant issues too]
Evangelism to Communist Lands
Box 303
Glendale, CA 91209
Evangelism to Communist Lands
Box 65899
Vancouver, BC V5N 5L3
Canada
(604)253-0624
East Bible Institute (Bible translations into USSR languages)
Box 8026
S-04 20 Stockholm 8
Swed
Europaeische Christliche Mission
Postfach 71
A-1234 Vien
Austria
(02236) 49983
East Europe Travel Agency
201 Wells
Chicago IL
(312) 332-7211
Evangelical Literature Overseas
289 Main Place
Carol Stream, IL
(312) 668-4747
Ecumenical Council of Churches
Dept. for Bible Work
Vitkova 13
18600 Prague 8, Czeck
So it's a little eclectic here, the different kinds of resources.
I've already discussed a lot here about how I had a reasonable grip on missions to Eastern Europe - although not as good a grip as I thought to find what I did in the Vienna mission, but I didn't gain that knowledge and understanding as an insider. Well, some of it I did, but it wasn't enough because they didn't know how much I knew because I'd gained it on my own apart from the missions. This includes skills as well as knowledge, skills like being able to carry oneself in Eastern Europe.
I'm skipping some addresses.
Christian Action for East-West Reconciliation c/o Rev. Brian G. Cooper
21 Sims Close
Romford, Essex RMI 3QT
UK
Christians Associated for Relationships w/Eastern Europe. (CAREE)
Dr. Paul Mojzes
Rosemont College
Rosemont, PA 19010
Communaute de Secours au Eglises Martyres Association Evangelique
Case Postale 57
CH-1211 Geneve 11
CSEM
Boite Postale 226
F74104 Annemasse-cedex, France
Catacombes (ed. Sergiu Grossu)
B.P. 98
92405 Courbevoic Cedex
CC.P. 120629Z, Paris, France
Cirkev Ceskoslovenska Husitska [Hussite]
V.V. Kujbseva 5
16626 Praha-Dejvice, Czech.
320-041-3
Cirkev Starokatolicka [Old Catholic]
Blodkova4
13000 Praha 3
Czech
278-777
Cirkev Bratska (Reformed)
Soukenicka 15
11000Praha 1
Czech
61-898
Chrzescijanska Rada Ekumenicza w Posce [a few letters are hard to make out]
ul Willowa 1
00790 Warszawa
Christian Solidarity International
Forchstrasse 280
Postfach 52
CH-8029
Zurich, Switzerland
01/55-66-46
Christian Action
3406 Brauer Court
Middleton, WI 53562
Evangelical Free Church of Hershey [my note: Russian Radio Bible Institute B.C.U.]
P.O. Box 82
Hershey, PA 17033
Eastern European Bible Mission
P.O. Box 198
47000 AD Roosendaal
Holland
EEBM (Hank Paulson)
P.O. Box 73
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
(415) 825-4939
Eastern European Mission (Rev. Paul Peterson)
232 North Lk. Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
EEM, Inc.
Midwest field rep: Bernanrd Kruse
1727 Cristal Lane
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
(312) 593-5139
EGLISI - Service de Presse de L'Eglise du Silence
Mr. Willy Fautre
40, rue de l'Enseignement
B-7490 Braine-Le-Comte
Belgium
(067) 55-56-14
Dr. Elliott
Asbury College
Wilmore, Kentucky, 40390
(collecting info on missions, etc. to Sov. bloc)
EESTI Evangeeliumi Luteriusu Kirik (Lutheran)
Raamatukogu Tn. 8
Tallinn
Estonian SSR
Evangelicka Cirkev Metodisticka
Jecna 19
12000 Praha 2
Czech
290-623
Ekumenicka Rada Cirkvi v Ceske Socialisticke Republice
Vitkova 13
18600 Praha 8 - Karlin
Czech
227-581
Evangelische Brueder - Unitaet: Distrikt Herrnhut (Moravian)
Voglshof
DDR 8709 Herrnhut
Evangelisch-lutherische (altluth) Kirthe in der DDR [old Lutheran]
Annen Str 53
DDR 1020 Berlin
2 79 35 83
The next one in the book is one I probably shouldn't have. I'm positive it came from my summer short term ministry trip to Vienna in 1982 on one of the trips I took into Eastern Europe. I shouldn't have kept that address. It's for a person and it says next to the person's address "lit deliveries." So I'm not going to put it here.
Eastern European Evangelism
Gordon Balisky
PO Box 7078
Seattle WA 98133
(206) 546-3900
Evangelical Baptist Camp
R.R. 1, Box 131
Ashford, CN 06278
(203) 429-2743
(Russian & Ukrainian) [I had an interest in imigrant issues too]
Evangelism to Communist Lands
Box 303
Glendale, CA 91209
Evangelism to Communist Lands
Box 65899
Vancouver, BC V5N 5L3
Canada
(604)253-0624
East Bible Institute (Bible translations into USSR languages)
Box 8026
S-04 20 Stockholm 8
Swed
Europaeische Christliche Mission
Postfach 71
A-1234 Vien
Austria
(02236) 49983
East Europe Travel Agency
201 Wells
Chicago IL
(312) 332-7211
Evangelical Literature Overseas
289 Main Place
Carol Stream, IL
(312) 668-4747
Ecumenical Council of Churches
Dept. for Bible Work
Vitkova 13
18600 Prague 8, Czeck
So it's a little eclectic here, the different kinds of resources.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
431. Addresses, Pt. 1
I'm still working on the family cookbook. (I still have the problem password changes to do, but I'm goind to work on them as I can while I move on to focus on the cookbook.).
But one thing I wanted to do was to come up with more material for creating passwords, and what better material than forein addresses, names and organizations! So you just pick and choose bits and pieces of them and scramble them about and voila you have a new password.
But where was I to get such material? Aha! I just happened to have a little blue book from eons ago full of names and address of all kinds of things related to work in the East Bloc. It was this book that I used to come up with my list of missions to write to before choosing a mission, before I went to Vienna. So I thought I might share a few with you here. It really is quite eclectic, though. Also, there are some loose sheets that have additional addresses.
Aid to Russian Christians
130 Heathfield Rd.
Keston, Kent BR2 6BA
England
Aid to Russian Christians
Rurual Rte. 2, Box 51
Athens, IL 62613
Aid to the Church in Need
19362 El Toro Rd
P.O. Box 1000
El Toro, CA 92630
(714)855-0149
Aid to the Church in Need
3-5 North Street
Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 1LB England (The zip code looks off)
0243) 787-325
Autokefaleczny Kosciol Prawoslawny
ul Swierczewskiego 52
Warszawa
19-08-86
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen in der DDR
August Str 80
DDR 1040 Berlin
28860
Altkatholische Kirche in der DDR
Georg Str. 7
DDR 3270 Blankenburg
22-97 or 25-08
Asian Outreach
PO Box 9504
Fresno, CA 93792
A Bible for Russia (my notes say: "E. Eur. as well as Russia")
P.O. Box 11335
Santa Ana, CA 92711
Ayerow Christian Project, Inc. (my notes say: "info and Bible-based comment on
P.O. Box 10307 religious and world affairs)
St. Pete. FL 33733
Austrian Bible Society
Breite Gasse 8
A-1070 Vienna, Austrua
American Bible Society (my notes say: gospel material in foreign languages)
1865 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Armenian Gospal Mission
P.O. Box 623
Pasadena CA 91102
American Scripture Gift
1211 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Bible Christian Union
Box 718
Lebanon, PA 17042
Barth, Reinhold A. (my notes say: "Romania)
908 Tower Lane
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
(312) 255-2367
(British) SGA
37A The Goffs
Eastbourne, Sussex BNZ1 1HF England
(0323)25583
BEE
13 Strehlgasse, Postfach 33
A-1197 Wien
44-2-78
Baptistka Crkva
Pelo Pelovsky 63
1303 Sofia 3, Bulgaria
Bulgarskata Pravoslavna Crkva
Oboriste 4
Sovia, Bulgaria
Bund Evangelisch Freikirchlichen Gemeinden in der DDR
Gubener Str. 80
DDR 1040 Berlin
2-88-60
Biserica Luterana din Romania (my notes say: "Lutheran, German speaking)
General Magheru 4
Sibiu
Romania
3079, 1780, 3609
Biserica Luterana Ungara din Romania
Kossuth Lajos 1
Kolozsvar
Kluj-Napoca
Romania
Biserica Ortodoxa Romania
Palatul Patriarchiei
Bucuresti
Romania
Bicerica Pentecostala Lui Dumnezeu Apostolica
Carol Davila 81
Bucuresti
Romania
49 26 26
Biserica Remormata Din Romania
Craioveil
Oradea
Romania
(Note: the address isn't clear on this one)
Brian Bounds (my notes: new letter; ministry to travelers to E. Eur. & their own teams)
5084 Grossgmain
Salzburg 272 Austria
Bibles for the World
Int'l Headquarters: 13000 Crescent St.
P. O. Box 805
Wheat, IL 60189-9985
688-7733
Baptista Teologiai Sziminarium
Tapolcsanyi u.7
Budapest 11
354-124
Baptisticka Teoloska Skola
Micurinova 1
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Belgian Bible Society
Rue Dautzenberg 36-38
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
British and Foreign Bible Society
146 Queen Victory St.
London EC4V 4BX
England
Bible Societies in the GDR
Kraustr. 52
GDR-1017 Gerlin
Bible Society in Greeze
3 Nicodemcu St.
105 57 Athens
Greece
British & Foreign Bible Society in Poland
Nowy Swiat 40
00-363 Warsaw
Poland
Bible Society of Yugoslavia
Marsala Tita 26
11000 Belgrade
Yugoslavia
I think that's enought for now. If I see that there's interest in this I might continue posting some more. Most of this would be just of historic interest, I think, but there could be some that might still functional.
But one thing I wanted to do was to come up with more material for creating passwords, and what better material than forein addresses, names and organizations! So you just pick and choose bits and pieces of them and scramble them about and voila you have a new password.
But where was I to get such material? Aha! I just happened to have a little blue book from eons ago full of names and address of all kinds of things related to work in the East Bloc. It was this book that I used to come up with my list of missions to write to before choosing a mission, before I went to Vienna. So I thought I might share a few with you here. It really is quite eclectic, though. Also, there are some loose sheets that have additional addresses.
Aid to Russian Christians
130 Heathfield Rd.
Keston, Kent BR2 6BA
England
Aid to Russian Christians
Rurual Rte. 2, Box 51
Athens, IL 62613
Aid to the Church in Need
19362 El Toro Rd
P.O. Box 1000
El Toro, CA 92630
(714)855-0149
Aid to the Church in Need
3-5 North Street
Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 1LB England (The zip code looks off)
0243) 787-325
Autokefaleczny Kosciol Prawoslawny
ul Swierczewskiego 52
Warszawa
19-08-86
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen in der DDR
August Str 80
DDR 1040 Berlin
28860
Altkatholische Kirche in der DDR
Georg Str. 7
DDR 3270 Blankenburg
22-97 or 25-08
Asian Outreach
PO Box 9504
Fresno, CA 93792
A Bible for Russia (my notes say: "E. Eur. as well as Russia")
P.O. Box 11335
Santa Ana, CA 92711
Ayerow Christian Project, Inc. (my notes say: "info and Bible-based comment on
P.O. Box 10307 religious and world affairs)
St. Pete. FL 33733
Austrian Bible Society
Breite Gasse 8
A-1070 Vienna, Austrua
American Bible Society (my notes say: gospel material in foreign languages)
1865 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Armenian Gospal Mission
P.O. Box 623
Pasadena CA 91102
American Scripture Gift
1211 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Bible Christian Union
Box 718
Lebanon, PA 17042
Barth, Reinhold A. (my notes say: "Romania)
908 Tower Lane
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
(312) 255-2367
(British) SGA
37A The Goffs
Eastbourne, Sussex BNZ1 1HF England
(0323)25583
BEE
13 Strehlgasse, Postfach 33
A-1197 Wien
44-2-78
Baptistka Crkva
Pelo Pelovsky 63
1303 Sofia 3, Bulgaria
Bulgarskata Pravoslavna Crkva
Oboriste 4
Sovia, Bulgaria
Bund Evangelisch Freikirchlichen Gemeinden in der DDR
Gubener Str. 80
DDR 1040 Berlin
2-88-60
Biserica Luterana din Romania (my notes say: "Lutheran, German speaking)
General Magheru 4
Sibiu
Romania
3079, 1780, 3609
Biserica Luterana Ungara din Romania
Kossuth Lajos 1
Kolozsvar
Kluj-Napoca
Romania
Biserica Ortodoxa Romania
Palatul Patriarchiei
Bucuresti
Romania
Bicerica Pentecostala Lui Dumnezeu Apostolica
Carol Davila 81
Bucuresti
Romania
49 26 26
Biserica Remormata Din Romania
Craioveil
Oradea
Romania
(Note: the address isn't clear on this one)
Brian Bounds (my notes: new letter; ministry to travelers to E. Eur. & their own teams)
5084 Grossgmain
Salzburg 272 Austria
Bibles for the World
Int'l Headquarters: 13000 Crescent St.
P. O. Box 805
Wheat, IL 60189-9985
688-7733
Baptista Teologiai Sziminarium
Tapolcsanyi u.7
Budapest 11
354-124
Baptisticka Teoloska Skola
Micurinova 1
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Belgian Bible Society
Rue Dautzenberg 36-38
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
British and Foreign Bible Society
146 Queen Victory St.
London EC4V 4BX
England
Bible Societies in the GDR
Kraustr. 52
GDR-1017 Gerlin
Bible Society in Greeze
3 Nicodemcu St.
105 57 Athens
Greece
British & Foreign Bible Society in Poland
Nowy Swiat 40
00-363 Warsaw
Poland
Bible Society of Yugoslavia
Marsala Tita 26
11000 Belgrade
Yugoslavia
I think that's enought for now. If I see that there's interest in this I might continue posting some more. Most of this would be just of historic interest, I think, but there could be some that might still functional.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
430. Reprieve Continues
It's sort of amazing that there are still people interested in my blog even through I haven't written anything in so long. I'm afraid it'll still be a little while longer before I'll be able to write anything of substance.
I'm able to sit longer now, because my back doesn't hurt so much. The fentanyl patch helped and then when I got the Botox injections for the nonstop 24/7 migraine then the pain medicines (fentanyl included) I thing were able to cover other parts of the body more. I'm also walking better, able to go without a cane for short distances. Actually, ballance is probably the biggest issue there, and the migraine is just as much of a problem as is the spinal induced balance problems. As of last Wed. I'm off physical therapy because I haven't made any progress there in the past couple weeks, so I was sent home with a lot of good instructions and best wishes and now the ball's in my court.
Doctor's are sending me to specialists who don't take insurance, and I'm on a limited budget, so I'm having to make some serious decisions here and it's kind of tough.
On other fronts when I was really tired and I was pushed trying to do something I had to get done on the computer and I was tired of fighting this particular problem on the computer, so I decided I wanted a company called "Computer Geeks" who come in your home to fix your computer, because it was a network-related thing. Anyway, being exhausted and not in best form because of my various conditions, especially things involving mental issues, like migraine and fibromyalgia, I did a Google search and tooke the first one that popped up and it ended out, I later realized, being am imitator of them and I got caught up in a scam. So it's been a mess trying to clean up after it and they basically had full and total control of my computer for 12 hours and it's not the usual remote control - this was a case where they had absolute control and the only thing I could do was unplug it or take the battery out, nothing else had any effect at all on my end and I couldn't see that they were doing anything on their end. I could call them until 5:30 and they seemed nice enough but gave excuses as to why nothing was happening and then they said their techs would be their till 10 pm and they gave me a couple after hour extensions and I called both of them and only got voice mails and the message said that someone would get back to me as soon as they could, but no one ever did, so the second time I called I said I wanted my money back and I wanted out, because by that time I was sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that there couldn't be any way they could be honest. I kept trying to believe them, but that was too much. I did get my money back because it hadn't yet gone through my credit card, so we put a stop on it. But they had access to all the information on my computer so I'm assuming that I need to change all my financial information and log ins and anything I wouldn't want prying eyes to see. I'm not ready to post my social security number on this blog, for instance.
It's been sort of overwhelming for me, because I can't handle a lot going on at one time. But I'm beginning to see it settle down a little. I won't say I'm quite out of the tunnel, because there still is the possibility of surprises popping up. I did bring my computer in to Staples (a large office supply store), though, to be serviced and checked out for anything unusuall after what had happened and they did a thorough check and didn't find anything, so that's good. And they don't service Outlook, which was one of my problems, so they gave me a phone number to call and now I have a year-long contract with a company to help me out with any of my computer issues, and I've been on the phone with them hours and hours the past 3 days getting the original problems resolved that I wanted to call the Geek Squad about in the first place. But I think this is a better resolution for me than the Geek Squad, because I can call them up whenever I have a problem. So hopefully some of the things that I need to get done on the computer will get done more smoothly now at least. So that's one load off my shoulder.
Since I've been able to sit longer, though, I've started going to church some. It's been hard being so couped up at home.
I guess that's all for now. As soon as I get the compromising of my computer dealt with (changing log ins/passwords), then I'm going to focus on the family heritage cookbook. I had Botox shots not long ago, as I just mentioned, so that helps my migraine and my concentration, so I'd better try to get as much done on that as I can. That has gone way to long and my family's patience is wearing thin. They don't understand at all and they don't see me here. My brothers are belittling me for sure (I don't hear anything, but I can just bet they are doing that because I've known them my whol life - I'm the oldest). So they're doing their very best to turn all the rest of the relatives and any friends and acquaintances against me that they can. And my taking so long on the cookbook is as good a reason as any to turn them against me.
I guess while I'm at it though, I'll take a stab at what I imagine they're telling people. I surmise that they're telling people that my going so slow on this cookbook is proof that I didn't really love mom, that I didn't really care. I never did anything and look at how much he (my middle brother in particular) did! The fact that he did so much in contrast to my not doing anything is equivalent to saying he loved mom that much and I didn't. Alternately. I'm just lazy. They got their part of the things done after mom's death long ago and I still haven't gotten mine done and I just have me to take care of and I don't even work. So I'm thinking that they're spreading all these kinds of things around.
One thing is too that my middle brother has some things that I think would make the cookbook be more like what I think is more represantative of mom. But he won't do anything to cooperate, because he doesn't care anyway. In this case, then why should it even matter to him whether or not I complete the cookbook anyway. I think some things from mom's Bible that she underlined in and wrote in would be good to use. And as for the other brother, he just really wants the addresses that he really liked from his childhood, and I don't think he particularly cares about any of the others. All he really cares about is what he likes. So in this case, what's the big hurry for me to create the cook book? I'm going to create a cook book that neither of them are really going to like. I think I should plan the publishing of it at a time when I'm well and I'll take a trip to some place where I'm incommunicado so I don't have to deal with the complaints.
'Till next time.
I'm able to sit longer now, because my back doesn't hurt so much. The fentanyl patch helped and then when I got the Botox injections for the nonstop 24/7 migraine then the pain medicines (fentanyl included) I thing were able to cover other parts of the body more. I'm also walking better, able to go without a cane for short distances. Actually, ballance is probably the biggest issue there, and the migraine is just as much of a problem as is the spinal induced balance problems. As of last Wed. I'm off physical therapy because I haven't made any progress there in the past couple weeks, so I was sent home with a lot of good instructions and best wishes and now the ball's in my court.
Doctor's are sending me to specialists who don't take insurance, and I'm on a limited budget, so I'm having to make some serious decisions here and it's kind of tough.
On other fronts when I was really tired and I was pushed trying to do something I had to get done on the computer and I was tired of fighting this particular problem on the computer, so I decided I wanted a company called "Computer Geeks" who come in your home to fix your computer, because it was a network-related thing. Anyway, being exhausted and not in best form because of my various conditions, especially things involving mental issues, like migraine and fibromyalgia, I did a Google search and tooke the first one that popped up and it ended out, I later realized, being am imitator of them and I got caught up in a scam. So it's been a mess trying to clean up after it and they basically had full and total control of my computer for 12 hours and it's not the usual remote control - this was a case where they had absolute control and the only thing I could do was unplug it or take the battery out, nothing else had any effect at all on my end and I couldn't see that they were doing anything on their end. I could call them until 5:30 and they seemed nice enough but gave excuses as to why nothing was happening and then they said their techs would be their till 10 pm and they gave me a couple after hour extensions and I called both of them and only got voice mails and the message said that someone would get back to me as soon as they could, but no one ever did, so the second time I called I said I wanted my money back and I wanted out, because by that time I was sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that there couldn't be any way they could be honest. I kept trying to believe them, but that was too much. I did get my money back because it hadn't yet gone through my credit card, so we put a stop on it. But they had access to all the information on my computer so I'm assuming that I need to change all my financial information and log ins and anything I wouldn't want prying eyes to see. I'm not ready to post my social security number on this blog, for instance.
It's been sort of overwhelming for me, because I can't handle a lot going on at one time. But I'm beginning to see it settle down a little. I won't say I'm quite out of the tunnel, because there still is the possibility of surprises popping up. I did bring my computer in to Staples (a large office supply store), though, to be serviced and checked out for anything unusuall after what had happened and they did a thorough check and didn't find anything, so that's good. And they don't service Outlook, which was one of my problems, so they gave me a phone number to call and now I have a year-long contract with a company to help me out with any of my computer issues, and I've been on the phone with them hours and hours the past 3 days getting the original problems resolved that I wanted to call the Geek Squad about in the first place. But I think this is a better resolution for me than the Geek Squad, because I can call them up whenever I have a problem. So hopefully some of the things that I need to get done on the computer will get done more smoothly now at least. So that's one load off my shoulder.
Since I've been able to sit longer, though, I've started going to church some. It's been hard being so couped up at home.
I guess that's all for now. As soon as I get the compromising of my computer dealt with (changing log ins/passwords), then I'm going to focus on the family heritage cookbook. I had Botox shots not long ago, as I just mentioned, so that helps my migraine and my concentration, so I'd better try to get as much done on that as I can. That has gone way to long and my family's patience is wearing thin. They don't understand at all and they don't see me here. My brothers are belittling me for sure (I don't hear anything, but I can just bet they are doing that because I've known them my whol life - I'm the oldest). So they're doing their very best to turn all the rest of the relatives and any friends and acquaintances against me that they can. And my taking so long on the cookbook is as good a reason as any to turn them against me.
I guess while I'm at it though, I'll take a stab at what I imagine they're telling people. I surmise that they're telling people that my going so slow on this cookbook is proof that I didn't really love mom, that I didn't really care. I never did anything and look at how much he (my middle brother in particular) did! The fact that he did so much in contrast to my not doing anything is equivalent to saying he loved mom that much and I didn't. Alternately. I'm just lazy. They got their part of the things done after mom's death long ago and I still haven't gotten mine done and I just have me to take care of and I don't even work. So I'm thinking that they're spreading all these kinds of things around.
One thing is too that my middle brother has some things that I think would make the cookbook be more like what I think is more represantative of mom. But he won't do anything to cooperate, because he doesn't care anyway. In this case, then why should it even matter to him whether or not I complete the cookbook anyway. I think some things from mom's Bible that she underlined in and wrote in would be good to use. And as for the other brother, he just really wants the addresses that he really liked from his childhood, and I don't think he particularly cares about any of the others. All he really cares about is what he likes. So in this case, what's the big hurry for me to create the cook book? I'm going to create a cook book that neither of them are really going to like. I think I should plan the publishing of it at a time when I'm well and I'll take a trip to some place where I'm incommunicado so I don't have to deal with the complaints.
'Till next time.
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