I found your Churchwarden-Homepage by "chance" by clicking on a link on Steve Beaty's Pipes.org - Site. I was surprised and happy to find your pages containing three of my own Interests/hobbies: Jesus Christ, your Made-with-Macintosh-Sign and of course Pipe smoking. And although I do no fishing myself,I happen to know someone wo is a "Fly-Fisher" (or how this is called). So even this is covered. :-)

Since Online-time is rather expensive here in Germany and I am not one of the lucky ones who have a flat rate account, I only took a few looks at your publications, but what I saw took my interest and I printed out some pages to read them in the evening (without the clock ticking in the back of my head...).

At the End of your June 20001 (no this is not my "mistyping," that's what your page "said" :-) Edition you wrote, that it is possible "to subscribe to this weird - but free - little publication" via email. Well, depending on how this would reach me, I would like to try it. Do you send the articles as a (text)email or as a Acrobat Reader file? Or anyway else?I ask, because I don't have the limits to download a lot megabytes every month.

With many greetings, a lot of good and holy smoke and Gods blessing for you . .

Yours sincerely,

Michael :-)"

"I just spent a delightful half hour perusing your offerings in The Churchwarden. Absolutely delightful. I would love to receive the fruits of your labors in my email box each month.

Unfortunately, I have never mastered the art of fly fishing.� South Texas simply does not have the draw of fly fishing that a stream in Colorado or New Mexico has. And I seldom make it to those places, though they are truly God's country. I do, however, enjoy the pleasures of the pipe. I have been collecting, smoking, and enjoying tobacco pipes since my seminary years (early and mid 70's) in St. Paul, Minnesota. I recently celebrated my Silver Anniversary of Ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and/or its predecessor body/bodies. Don't worry about it, it gets complicated, as Garrison Keillor can attest to. Matters of theology and faith are a definite "turn-on," to use a phrase coined by that magazine we all used to read years ago for its "intellectual" articles.

I do have a question which you might forward to your good friend, Rev. Brown. He spoke of receiving a couple of pipes produced by a Minnesota pipe maker. I�am not acquainted with this pipe and would like to find way to check this pipe maker out and perhaps order on of his creations.

Thanks for a delightful break in the midst of preparing for fall schedules, the resumption of Confirmation Classes,� youth groups, alligator attacks and the like."