How to Keep Our Updates Coming to Your Inbox!

Email Whitelist Instructions We just discovered that many of our recent posts have been lost in cyberspace, returned undeliverable. We're presently trying to fix that, but we need YOUR help! Since your ISP (Internet Service Provider) probably uses some type of spam filter we ask that you add us to your trusted list of senders, contacts, or address book. This is known as whitelisting. STEP 1: If you do not see an email from Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea in your inbox, due to the overzealous filtering by ISPs my email may have mistakenly been sent to your spam folder. Please open your spam folder, look for it there, open it and mark it as "not spam"... STEP 2: Scroll down to your email provider for specific instructions on how to Whitelist all future posts from Until the Nets are Full: Our Latest Blog Update, from: Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea. Please Note: I have changed @ to [at] in each email reference below to avoid bots scanning the web for email addresses to send spam to.  Please use the @ symbol when adding us to your secure sender list. AOL To make sure email gets delivered to your AOL inbox, you must add the email address or corporate domain of the sender to your Address Book or Custom Sender List. Click the "Spam Controls" link on the lower right side of your inbox screen. When the "Mail & Spam Controls" box appears, click the "Custom sender list" link. Choose the "allow email from dshrader[at]dbcm.org" option. Add the domain or email address you would like to receive mail from, then click "Add" Click "Save" AOL Web Mail  If using AOL web mail replying to an email from Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea will also work. Email from that domain will now be delivered straight to your Inbox. Yahoo! Mail If you are not receiving email you are expecting, there are two things you can do: Use the "Not Spam" button in your Bulk folder. Create a filter to automatically send email from certain domains to your Inbox. This is the only way to really ensure delivery. Report as "Not Spam" - Check your Yahoo! Bulk folder - If you see the email from Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea, highlight it and click "Not Spam" - This does not guarantee that your mail will be delivered in the future, but it does help. Create a Filter Click "Options" in the top right navigation bar Select "Mail Options" from the list that drops down Choose "Filters" located on the left side of the page Click the "Add" button on the Filters page Choose the field you want to match in the incoming message. For example, "header" or "to". Choose the criterion by which you want a match to be made, such as "contains" Enter the text string to compare. For example: Our Latest Blog Update from Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea Choose the destination folder to which you would like the message delivered. For example: Inbox Hotmail Live, Windows Live and MSN In the new Hotmail you must "Mark sender as safe" to enable hyperlinks even in text emails and images in HTML emails. Entering the email contact in the address book or contacts no longer whitelists the sender To ensure messages from specific email addresses are not sent to your Junk Email folder, you can do one of two things: Check the "Junk" folder if you do not see the Until the Nets are Full in your inbox Click the "Mark as safe" link Add dshrader[at]dbcm.org to your Safe List Mark Sender as Safe Attachments, pictures, and links in this message have been blocked for your safety. Show content Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea dshrader[at]dbcm.org - Until the Nets are Full From: dshrader[at]dbcm.org     You may not know this sender. Mark as safe | Mark as unsafe Sent: Thu 6/14/07 12:00 AM Reply-to: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click "Show content" to view the body of the email if it contains images and HTML Click "Mark as safe" Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea will now be added to your list of "Safe senders" Manually Add to Safe List Click "Options" in the upper right corner of your Hotmail screen In the Body of the page under "Junk e-mail" click the link "Safe and blocked senders" Click the link "Safe senders" Enter the email address "dshrader[at]dbcm.org" Click "Add to list" Gmail  To make sure email gets delivered to your inbox, you must add the email address dshrader[at]dbcm.org to your contacts list. Click the drop down arrow next to "Reply" in the upper right side of your inbox screen. Click the "Add Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea to Contacts List" from the list that appears. You will now see Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea appear under the link "Contacts" on the left side of the page. Click the link "Contacts" and the in the "Search Contacts" form field. Now you can select to move Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea to a contact list of choice and edit any details. Outlook 2003 (or higher) Because of the various email platforms that can work with Outlook, it is tricky to tell you how to recieve all email to your Outlook inbox. We can tell you, however, how to make sure you can see all the emails you receive as they were intended to be seen - with images. If a company is not in your address book or "Safe Sender" list, your HTML images will not display. To have HTML display correctly, users can: Change their automatic download settings Add sender to your address book Add your email or domain to their approved sender list To change settings: Right click on a non-displaying image in an HTML email Choose "Change automatic download settings" option When the popup comes up, uncheck the first box in the list that says "don�t download pictures or other HTML content automatically Click "OK" To add sender to address book: Open the email Right click on the from address Choose "Add to contacts" option To add domain to safe sender list: Right click on a non-displaying image in an HTML email Choose "Add the domain to the safe sender list" option Earthlink If you are not receiving email at Earthlink, there are two actions you can take. Check "Suspect Email" folder Add to your address book With Earthlink, if you have SpamBlocker turned on, suspect messages are automatically send to your Suspect Email folder if the domain is not in your address book. Suspect Email Folder While in the "Suspect Email" folder, if you see Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea... Select the "Move to Inbox and Add Contact" option from the pull down menu. This will add dshrader[at]dbcm.org to your Address Book for future email delivery assurance. Address Book Inclusion Open the email. Click "Add to Address Book" in the email header. Use the "Address Book Editor" to verify the sender's contact details and click "save." Fill in dshrader[at]dbcm.org as the email address of the sender. Any mail sent with the same domain (right of the @ sign) will now be delivered to your Inbox. AT&T and Bellsouth  Open the email message from the sender you want to add to your address book. Click on the "Save Address" link (below) next to the "From Address. Check the "Add to Contacts" box (below) and click "Save. Comcast Click on the [Save Address]   link at the top of this message (it's next to From Address). For the field titled First Name, please enter Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea Then click Save Entry and you're all done. BlackBerrys Scroll up to the message header Get to the field where dshrader[at]dbcm.org is listed, click the Berry button and then click Show Address Click the Berry button and then click Add to contacts Mozilla Thunderbird Click the Address Book button Make sure the Personal Address Book is highlighted Click the New Card button. This will launch a New Card window that has 3 tabs: Contact, Address and Other Under the Contact tab, copy and paste the "From" address, dshrader[at]dbcm.org into the email dialogue box Click OK Norton AntiSpam  Start up Norton AntiSpam Click the Status & Settings tab Click AntiSpam Click Configure Click Allowed List tab Click Add button In the 'Email Address' box, enter dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click OK Click OK Trend Micro  If you received an email message that was incorrectly moved to the Spam Mail folder by the Anti-Spam Toolbar you can prevent this from occuring in the future. The Anti-Spam Toolbar detects spam by looking for certain keywords in the email's subject or body and matching it with the anti-spam pattern file. Occasionally, it may detect what you consider legitimate email as spam. To prevent this from occurring you can do either of the following: Add the sender to the list of Approved Senders Decrease the Spam Email Filter Strength Note: You can also select the email and click Not Spam to report it to Trend Micro. However, this feature serves only as a reference when we develop our spam database, and it may not have an effect on how the toolbar detects spam. Add the sender to the list of Approved Senders Open Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. Click the Spam Mail folder then select the legitimate email detected as spam. Click Approve Sender on the toolbar. Click Yes when the confirmation message appears. Decrease the Spam Email Filter Strength Open Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. Click Trend Micro Anti-Spam then click Settings. On the Spam Filter tab, move the slider bar to select a lower filter strength. Click OK to save your settings. McAfee Spamkiller  Select Friends from the McAfee SpamKiller sidebar. Click Add a friend. Make sure All users at a domain is selected under Friend type: Type the domain name you want to whitelist under Address: To whitelist all our newsletters, type Optionally, enter a Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea to help you recognize the domain under Name: Click OK. Click OK. Barracuda Networks  The Barracuda Spam Firewall is a popular spam filtering solution. Barracuda uses several algorithms and processes to determine whether emails are spam. Occasionally, it will mark a legitimate message as spam. There are two methods to whitelist email senders so that the firewall will not quarantine future email. Whitelist Quarantined Senders Open your email client. Barracuda should send you a summary each day listing quarantined items. Choose the most recent Barracuda email message. Locate the email from Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea and the sender email address dshrader[at]dbcm.org that you do not want quarantined in the future. Click on the word "Whitelist," which is in green print to the right of the email title. This will open your list in a web browser. Click the box to the left of the email that you would like to whitelist. At the top of the page, click "Whitelist." Barracuda will not block or quarantine the sender whose email address appears on the whitelist. Whitelist Senders and Domains Open your web browser. Navigate to your company's Barracuda firewall homepage. Click on the "Block/Accept" tab. Choose "Sender Domain Block/Accept." Enter the domain name from dshrader[at]dbcm.org to whitelist. For example, you can enter aol.com to allow all AOL addresses. You may enter a comment to remind you why you allowed this domain. Click "Add." Click your mouse on the "Email Sender Block/Accept" tab. Enter the email address of an individual sender that you want to whitelist, such as "dshrader[at]dbcm.org" Include a comment. Click "Add." In the future, Barracuda will not block emails from this sender. Cloudmark SpamNet Select Cloudmark | Options... from the Cloudmark SpamNet toolbar in Outlook. Click Advanced. Go to the Whitelist tab. Click the Add button. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click OK. Click OK. Click Yes. Click OK. Mailblocks Click the Addresses tab. Click New. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Make sure 'Accept Mail From This Address' is selected under Receiving Options. Uncheck 'Display in People Picker' under Other options. Click Submit. Click OK. MailShield  Click Friends from the toolbar. Click Add. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click OK. MailWasher  Click Tools, then Blacklist & Friends. Click Add... on the right, the Friends list side. Make sure Plain email address is selected. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click OK. Click OK. Oddpost Check your 'Probably Spam' folder. If you see that Until the Nets are Full was incorrectly filtered out Select it Click the 'Move to Inbox and Mark as Not Spam' button. SpamAssassin Add the following entry to your user_prefs file, which is found in the .spamassassin subdirectory on your web/mail server whitelist_from dshrader[at]dbcm.org Save the user_prefs file or move the updated copy to your .spamassassin subdirectory. SPAMfighter Highlight the email from Daniel, Meredith, Lily, and Hosea with the email address dshrader[at]dbcm.org to Whitelist. Click "More" in the SPAMfighter Toolbar and select "Whitelist". Here you can choose if you want to Whitelist the email address dshrader[at]dbcm.org or the whole domain. To be sure that all emails from people in your Outlook contacts get through to you, you can import and Whitelist them. To do this, follow these steps: Click "More" in the SPAMfighter toolbar. Then "Options" Then "Filter settings" Then "Blacklists & Whitelists" Then "Whitelist email address" Then "Import". Select your 'Address Book' and click on "Check all" Click "Add" Click "Apply" If you get a pop-up box offering you to upgrade to SPAMfighter Pro it is because you have exceeded the limit of 100 addresses. You can fix this by buying SPAMfighter Pro or by deleting some of the addresses in your Black/White list. If you want delete addresses, please go to: Click More" in the SPAMfighter toolbar. Then "Options" Then "Filter settings" Then "Blacklists & Whitelists" ChoiceMail  Open ChoiceMail Click on the Senders tab Choose "Approve another Sender" Type in the sender email address dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click on OK SpamButcher  Click the Configure button. Go to the Known Senders tab. Click Add under 'Known Good Senders and Recipients'. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click OK. Click OK. Spameater Pro  Click Filters from the sidebar. Click the Approved Senders tab. Click Add Filter. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org under Address. Choose 'Full Email Address' under Address Type. Select Email Domain. Click OK. Spam Inspector Select Spam Inspector Then 'Manage Friends List' from either the Spam Inspector toolbar or from the Outlook menu. Make sure Email is selected under 'Add a New Friend'. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click the >> button. Click Close. Spam Interceptor  Follow the Trusted link under > Authentication Lists. Enter the email address: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click Add. SpamPal  Click on the SpamPal system tray icon with the right mouse button. Click 'Add to Whitelist' from the menu. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org Click Add. Spam Sleuth Select File, then Configure. Go to the Friends category. Make sure Active is checked. Type: dshrader[at]dbcm.org on a line by itself in the entry field. Click OK. Other Spam Filters Not List Above....  If Until the Nets are Full is being filtered, try adding dshrader[at]dbcm.org to your Address Book or Contact list. If messages continue to be sent to your junk folder contact your ISP or spam filter application support and ask how to whitelist dshrader[at]dbcm.org Generate your own whitelist instructions here...

Purple Martins in a Bluebird Box

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She's working on the nest while he's standing guard.

 Dear Friends and Prayer Warriors,

This blog isn't about birds.  Please indulge me this illustration.

A few weeks ago, we put up a bluebird box in hopes that one of those beautiful insectivores would take up residence outside our window.  It's not a pretty box, just one I threw together from a piece of scrap in the shop.  Bluebirds frequently perch on our pergola and hunt in our back yard, so mounting a box below their favorite perch seemed logical.  Within 48 hours, a pair of purple martins had taken up residence in our bluebird box.  I had never heard of such a thing.  Martins in a bluebird box?  So I convinced Meredith we should put up a proper martin house for them, and off to Tractor Supply we went.  Within a day, about 50 feet from the bluebird box I mounted a shiny new martin house.  I cleaned the nest they had started out of the bluebird box and waited for them to find their new home.  Only they didn't move.  They surveyed the new martin house, and then proceeded to rebuild the nest in the bluebird box with fervor!  You know, sometimes I feel like a martin in a bluebird box.  Martins are colony nesters, so branching out alone is odd.  But there are other martins in the neighborhood, so they're not really alone, they're just the oddballs in their group.  They're doing things differently than others in their community, and certainly differently than they way "they've always been done around here"!  I can only imagine the conversations when the other martins fly by the little box.

Last weekend we were blessed with a visit from John Brown and Pat Smith from Denton.  John has been a dear, wise friend for more than a decade.  Pat oversees Denton Bible Church's local missions, which includes a variety of ministries.  Vision Ministry is the local benevolence ministry of DBC, and Charlie modeled much of Mountain Vision around the way things were done at Vision in Denton.  Pat has made a lot of changes down at Vision in the last two years, one of the most significant of which was launching JobsforLife.  His counsel to me last weekend was to work hard to get the first class off the ground.

When we moved here, benevolence ministry was new to me.  I jumped in feet first and hit the ground running.  Over the last three years, my understanding of poverty has changed a lot.  You can read more on that here.  By extension, my understanding of the types of things that need to be done to begin to alleviate poverty has also grown considerably, which is why we've been working hard at moving forward with JobsforLife.  The vast majority of resources that have been used to help the materially poor over the last 50 years have been given in the form of relief (handouts).  In a crisis, relief is absolutely appropriate, and we are blessed to be able to minister to families in crisis on a weekly basis.  However, many things that appear to be a crisis on the surface are really areas where a person or family needs development.  When the kids have outgrown all their clothes, giving their parents clothes can be a huge blessing (relief).  But helping a family find and keep better work so that they are able to purchase clothing for their kids breaks the cycle of material poverty.  But it's hard.  And it's not been done here before.  So people in our community sometimes look at us like martins in bluebird box.  We're odd.  We're trying to do things differently than the way they've "always been done."  But not everyone is skeptical.  God has been gracious in allowing some others to begin to buy in to this new way of thinking, and many folks are watching to see if it works.  Pat Smith has seen it work in Denton.  Churches and non-profits have seen it work in other communities around the country.  I think it will work here too.  It might not. If it doesn't, we'll revise our strategy and try again.

Thank you for praying for our planning times over the last couple of weeks.  They have been fruitful, and I'll fill you in on more of that in next few posts.

This week please pray for...
Next Thursday I'll be meeting with Joey Tillery at church to talk about dates for our first attempt at launching JobsforLife.  We'll also be recruiting key volunteers to serve as champions (mentors).  As soon as we have dates set, I'll begin recruiting our first round of students.  Please pray the Lord would open all of the appropriate doors for this program to move forward.  Please pray that the Lord would bring exactly the right first round of students, and that he would transform lives by the power of the gospel.  One clarifying note.  JobsforLife is a program. I don't believe in programs.  I'm positive on JobsforLife because it's infused with the Gospel.  Real change, family transformation, is only possible when the Holy Spirit intervenes and empowers people as they submit their lives to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  It is this that excites me and keeps me going day to day!

Meeme and Papa came to see us for Easter!

Mrs. Dianne sharing the Easter story at the church Jellybean Jamboree.  Lily loves the Easter story!

Hunting eggs.  She's getting SO big!

Meeting Eli Farrow, who is 6 weeks younger than Hosea.  The Farrows paid us a visit on their way from NC to Kentucky.

Our cute little boy is gaining on the monkey!

"Dad, would you take my picture, please?" Yes dear. You're too precious.

Me, and mini-me.

And a few more pictures of our martins.