THURSDAY Update - 2APR2020 - New quarter and changes

It's been a long day and I haven't really sat down to plan this post, so bear that in mind as you read it.

April is a month of changes for me.  I will be posting at my tiers this month, with just one PUBLIC post for the month.  I have to get use to this as well.

I made my first EARTH DAY design for this year... took forever!  The design options at PRINTFUL are limited, and I keep dreaming of an ADOBE account.  :-)   I haven't used Adobe, but it looks like it will allow me to do a lot more with any design I might come up with.  I may complain about Adobe as well.  Each software has its good and bad points.

(NOTE ::  I made the PRINTFUL link an affiliate link... that means I might earn some kind of commission from Printful if you click through and become a part of the Printful process somehow... joining, designing, buying... somehow.  It's my first affiliate link... I'm still learning how it works.)

It's a large black organic cotton eco-tote... with 25-inch handles/straps.
You can buy it at my ETSY shop ::  https://www.etsy.com/shop/work2gather
or my EBAY shop ::  https://www.ebay.com/usr/work2gather

It is just a basic design of letters and the clip art they have available.  I like words but there has to be some kind of design to go with them.

          What I see in my head is still there, 
               waiting for the right "tools" to make things with.  

I guess that is why my PATREON quest is so important... and soon would be better than later as I have no idea how much longer I have to live.

After I made the design and listed it at EBAY and ETSY, I started looking for some Etsy groups at FACEBOOK to participate in... I am currently looking into at least five.  I want to find one to post at and see what others are making... another way to explore what is "trending."   :-)  maybe.

They seem to have a lot of boundaries with posting, so one group will probably be all I can handle.  Some have many thousands of "members" that may or may not be active.  Facebook groups are a sly way to sell your items, but they also sometimes bring good feedback.  They are also a way to see the competition, and to find out what is currently being made and sold, etc.

When Etsy changed their team format my personal group went away... or it's somewhere I haven't found yet.  I wanted to gather the Christian leaders for a team to help support each other.  I called it ELECT, E ( ? Etsy)  Leaders...(Etsy)  Christian Teams... I'll have to find that missing word... I worked around that word because Christians are the ELECT of God..  Well, it's been awhile... my efforts didn't seem to get a return message when I contacted the leaders.  Finding Christian teams at Etsy is a huge challenge... and worse now.  They made it so hard to be a team I think everyone is abandoning the concept.


If you think the world is going to be fair about spiritual matters, you are wrong.  I started to see how things were getting changed a long time ago, when I looked for community meetings to attend... and they were all on the nights and times that Christians were having church.  Since then, I have discovered more of those "covert" methods.  I do what I can and leave the details to GOD.  We can't stop prophecy, and those who hate GOD think it's their responsibility to "save the world" from Christians.  I don't think they realize what the consequences will become.

Online is just another war zone.  We can't see what is happening, and many times can't do anything about it, but it is where we have to be right now.  The saying "...things are falling into place" is true.  GOD's Word is coming true right before our eyes and ears.

I keep saying, "If anyone did this to them, it would be called a hate crime."  And it would.  But things are never fair in times of persecution.  I keep praying that GOD will help His People to find a way through this with each other... that is what WORKING TOGETHER was created to do... I think it may be too late now.

So... PATREON  is my last hope.  :-)  (plus a possible lottery win someday... BIG lottery win... only  :-)

I would like to start the process, and be able to do some of my BUCKET LIST items.  That would work for me.  I am ready to die, and WT is GOD's business/ministry.  I just wanted to get a few last things done.


I guess I got going there... it is always on my heart... always a current need.

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Until next time,
In Christ,

Deborah Martin
work2gather.us

Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Today... it's been a busy one.  Up early, and working through my lists.  I just can't seem to get to the ivy patch, mostly because of the heat.  I get busy with other things, and don't "feel" like getting out there the first thing in the morning, so my HUGE pile of ivy vines is still waiting for me.  :-(  haha.

I have posted about the TRIAL Membership option already.  I need to do that at different times of the day and see what happens.  I end up posting at night all the time, so that isn't good.

I also mentioned my effort to gather Christian business online through CORD (Christian Online Resource Directory) at the Business Boutique Facebook Group page, but don't know if that will get posted... :-)  It was a last moment thing... It flowed out as I got serious about the need to build a membership base.

Membership is for INDIVIDUALS;

CORD is for businesses, ministries, and groups.

We need to connect and start supporting each other.  That's the main goal for all of this.  Becoming ONE BODY in CHRIST at a local and global level.  I hope I get to see it happen before GOD calls me away from this life.

The TRIAL Membership is my effort to get that going.

Other than that, I discovered a link about Robert Kiyosaki, where he also suggest that everyone should invest in gold for greater financial security.  I replied that he was wrong.  People need to make sure they have their home paid off so they don't lose it when the economy crashes.  Then I said FOOD is the next most important thing... to be able to grow what you need to eat.  Our food sources are getting so dangerous to eat because of the pollution of our oceans, air, waterways, land, etc.  Our seeds are disappearing because of Round-Up pesticides and Monsanto seed issues. I better not get started... we will be here for too long if I do.

The idea that any form of retirement planning is going to work is foolish.  Stocks are paper, and based on the value of the company.  If the company dies, the stock has no value.  Pensions are all based on stock investments.  Banks invest in companies. The government banks on tax revenues which only happen when the economy is good.  We can see the debt load is killing our tax income and all the programs and projects we hope to do with them.  Cash is not a sure thing either.  If the dollar crashes, it has no value.

My personal goal is to be debt free, to own whatever assets GOD allows me or Working Together to acquire without financial liabilities.  I don't know how that can happen, but that is what I believe has to be done.  And I hope to find a way to get rid of property taxes and other taxes so that owning something doesn't have a continual tax burden... it just belongs to you once you pay it off.

Lots of issues to deal with in planning a Christian future, the survival of our lives as Christians for as long as GOD allows...local and global.

I have started asking questions about contact information for prisons and jails for INMATE PROJECT.  It is too much for me to do all this alone, so I look for what I can do when GOD provides the funds to hire help.  In my website updating process I had to cancel the links to the information I had about my programs, but I am trying to figure out a better way to get people access to it.

I would like to hire some released inmates to work on the program and help build it... but there are issues to be dealt with and someone who knows how to deal with inmates will have to be found.

Hopefully, GOD will provide soon.

I better get going.

Until next time,
In Christ,

Deborah Martin
work2gather.us

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May GOD be kind and provide the finances WT needs to grow.  Amen.