Are you new to the world of blogging?

I only started reading blogs about a year ago, and began writing my own in July of 2007. The reason I started my blog, was so that the people who support our ministry (financially and prayerfully) can stay caught up on events, and so that our friends and family can keep up with our lives, in spite of the distance between us.

I am still finding out things about how my own blog works, and I thought I would take a moment to explain a few of the features of this blog, to those of you who, like me, are blog-novices. If you are already blog-savvy, perhaps you should go read a book, or something, while the rest of us go on our "Tour of Trish's Blog."

When you first open the blog to the main page, using the address http://www.sowers4pastors.blogspot.com/, you will see the most recent post at the top of the page. As you scroll down, you will see each consecutively older post up to about seven posts. If you wish to see older posts, one way to do this is to click on "older posts" at the bottom of the page. That will show the posts back to about a month ago.

There are other ways to explore the posts beyond the first page. In the right margin, there is a section labeled "Blog Archive." You can click on the title of any post from the current month, and be taken directly to that post. One advantage to this method is that you will automatically see both the post and the comments which were made about that post.

Also in the Blog Archive section, you can see listed the earlier months of the current year. By clicking on the arrow in front of the name of the month, a list of all of the post titles from that month will appear. You could then click on any title, to go to that post. If you click on the name of the month itself, you will open a page which will show all of the posts for that month, in their entirety.

You can also click on 2007, and repeat this process, to see any of the posts from last year.

At any time, as you travel around the blog, you can click on the Sowers4Pastors title at the top of the page, and this will return you to the original page, where we started this tour.

Another interesting way to wander around the site is to use the labels. The list of labels is located further down on the left margin. You can click on any label, and this will bring up a page of all of the posts which I have labeled with that particular category. Some of the most popular categories to visit are "photos of Lempira," "construction updates," and "humor."

You can also leave comments on my blog. Just click on the word "comments" at the end of a post to pull up the comments page. You can read the comments of others, and enter your own comments in the box at the top right. It's fun, and it lets me know that people are actually reading all of this stuff!

So, feel free to wander around the blog! There's a lot of info about the ministry, some interesting (and some not-so-interesting) family stuff, and a batch of pretty good photos, mostly taken by my kids. Enjoy!