We have a new site; you enter the chat room from there now, set up your own page, leave messages for others in the chat room, and all kinds of fun things. We have a lot to explore; come join us!
If you're registered for the chat room, the same username and password work for the chat room on the new site because it's the same room -- just the enter button moved.
The new site is www.peaceici.net. See you there!
Our chat room looks a bit different now as Parachat has updated the software for the room. The most obvious change is that the room/user list is on the right hand side instead of the left. The send box also goes across the entire bottom of the chat window. It may take a couple days before everyone sees the changes. Overall, the room works much the same.
The menus do have one useful addition. Under the "help" menu, you can now select "trouble shooting". This brings up a box that will let you test your connection to the room. Under the "ping" tab, click "start" at the bottom, and you should get something that looks like:
Round trip in seconds: 0.923. (#1 of 10)This indicates that you're still connected to the room. So, the next time the room seems slow, you can check and see if you're really still there or not. I'm assuming that if you get disconnected, the ping will be very slow and then give you an error message.
Round trip in seconds: 0.878. (#2 of 10)
etc
Folks seem to be able to get in the room again. It looks like it's coming up for different people at different times. If you can get to www.parachat.com, you should be able to get the room to load. If you can't get in, I'm still in the temporary backup room, so come in there.
Nice to see the mountains again! lol
All of Parachat's servers are presently down because of damage to an optical fiber in the San Fransisco area. Since our room is hosted on their server, this means our room is down. I have created a temporary room on chatzy for us to use until the normal chat room is working again. To get to our temporary room, go to http://www.chatzy.com/348891275838 (you probably want to open it in a new window), type your user name ("name or alias") and click on "enter room". No registration is required.
You can see what's happening in the chat room from there; to talk, click "join chat" at the bottom right.
If you need to change the font size, you'll need to tell your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) to use a larger font size. Click "visitor list" on the left to see who is in the room. I'm there now and plan to stay in the room. I think I have it set up so I'll know when people come in but please be patient if I don't see you right away.
Hopefully, the problems Parachat are having will be solved soon (perhaps 9 pm eastern), and we will be back to our normal room soon.
We now have a new admin to help out in our chat room, Mushroom. I am grateful for the help she's been in the room and am glad she can help in this way, too.
Congrats, mushie!
We have new rooms now.
We will be having our first book study based on Hannah Hurnard's allegory of Christian life "Hind's Feed on High Places." We plan for the study to start at 9 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific time. We will be creating a special room for the study so there won't be interruptions, and those that don't care to participate can still enjoy the main room. The study will last a minimum of 7 weeks and we will have transcripts available if you miss a session. Amazon carries the book. (It's not very expensive new and you can buy used ones as well.) If you want to participate, but can't afford the book, let one of the admins know and we'll see what we can do to help out. We'll be posting "lesson plans" for each session to guide you as you read. Expect the study to last about an hour! We look forward to seeing you there as we travel to the High Places! Blessings! deni aka QuietSoul51
I pray the good Lord blesses you beyond your wildest dreams in the coming year.
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Deni was in the chat room briefly on Saturday; she is still bloated and all. She said the doctor is wanting her to transfer somewhere like the Mayo Clinic. Please keep praying for her; haven't heard anything from her since Saturday.
I was sick all last night; ate something I shouldn't have. I'm sitting here just long enough to post this. I am getting better, but I'm going back to bed in a minute, so I'm canceling the 3 pm chat.
God bless!
Here is Wednesday's schedule. If for some reason, they don't work, go to Invisible Illness Conference page (reload the page if you have it open already) or to the Blog Talk Radio page.
I have fixed the links in the previous schedules I posted; very sorry about the confusion.
Wednesday's schedule (the links are all available now):
As some of you know I will be going to Edmonton to visit with my oldest daughter and her family for a couple of weeks, I will be taking a greyhound there and back which is 12 hrs each way plus spending mammoth time with my 1 yr old grandson who has energy to burn plus LOL. I will need lots of time to recuperate afterwards, so depending on how I feel I will be coming back to the chat room sometime around the middle of the October give or take a week.
Please feel free to come into the chat room and if no one is around you can still type out your prayers as I do when no one shows up for prayer chat, then others can read them in the room history. I am sure God will bless you as He has blessed me. We need more prayer warriors for the chat room!
Also if you have any prayer requests you would like posted to the blog plz look for the link on the main page and Liz will post it as soon as she can.
I ask you all to pray for travel mercies for me and strength to keep up with my little one and keep an eye on the blog for prayer requests.
God bless and have a good and Godly day everyone
Today's schedule and links -- I plan to add links when they are posted.
After two seminars have gone by, I'm realizing folks are having a little trouble getting to the right page to listen to the seminars, so I will post the links for the individual seminars here to make it easier.
The programs are like talk radio programs -- you can listen and call in to ask questions; there is not simultaneous chat room though some of us are hanging out in our chat room during the sessions.
I'm including the two seminars from earlier today since you can hear the seminars by going to those pages, if you'd like to. Also, if you want to be included in the (probably incomplete) list of listeners on the web page, you can register on Blog Talk Radio and login before going to the seminar link.
The seminar pages do include more information about the seminars and speakers. See the Invisible Illness week site for information on the speakers and the schedule for the entire week (which does not include links to the individual shows).
Monday's shows:
National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week will be held this year September 8-14. The purpose of the week is to raise awareness of the needs of the chronically ill and the issues they deal with.
Rest Ministries is holding an online conference hosted on Blog Talk Radio, so you can listen to the seminars online and call in to participate, if you'd like to. The talks will be Monday - Friday at noon, 3 pm, 6 pm, and 8:30 pm eastern time. Some of the speakers and topics are:
I just added a blog roll to our page here; it's at the bottom right of this page. I've included some blogs I read on it as well as my own blog. I've also included a couple that are health news feeds -- one from WebMD and the other from the MayoClinic.
If you have any favorites/feedback, let me know. If you have a blog you'd like me to include, let me know.
Hope you all have a happy and blessed day!
Keep praying for the US. We have been blessed in so many ways, especially to live in a country where we are free -- free to worship as we want and free to speak what we believe. Pray our freedoms are not eroded.
My chat will be canceled today.
God bless!
The flag picture is one I took at the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia last May.
I will be starting my prayer chats again next week after ya'all had your holidays (Canada July 1st U.S. July 4th). I will be starting out small to get back in the groove so my chats will only be a half hour long unless someone gets a holy roller going LOL. So mark your calendars for every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm Eastern starting July 8th for half an hour of prayer , praise and worship. Be there or be square ya hear. I have missed you all this past couple of months but with God's help I will be here for a while longer.
