{"id":705,"date":"2010-04-17T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T02:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-04-17T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T02:43:30","slug":"april-2010-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/april-2010-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2010 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late this afternoon I sent out our April 2010 newsletter. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\">get it via email<\/a> from our home page.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you can read it right here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">CONTENTS<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Discount Continues<\/li>\n<li>New Books<\/li>\n<li>EduSwap<\/li>\n<li>Sewing Again<\/li>\n<li>Recipe<\/li>\n<li>A Reminder<\/li>\n<li>Room for Improvement<\/li>\n<li>In Closing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"section-header\">DISCOUNT CONTINUES<\/div>\n<p>We <i>still<\/i> are discounting 5% off the price of all orders over $40. You will get this discount *only* at our Rod and Staff site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodstaff.com\/school\/\">Rod &amp; Staff Online Catalog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This special is not limited to curriculum!<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">NEW BOOKS<\/div>\n<p>These books we do not yet have in stock. Hopefully in another two weeks or so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Hard-boiled Egg and Other Stories<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>God Made the Seashore<\/em> (a Little Jewel book)<\/li>\n<li><em>Let&#8217;s Discover<\/em> (a Little Jewel book)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Celestial Railroad<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Christian and the State<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Eternal Security<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2009 Sharon Singers CD (Yeah, I know; it&#8217;s not a book!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We plan to announce availability via our blog:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/\">Ampersand<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">EDUSWAP<\/div>\n<p>Stop by to buy, sell, trade, give away, or receive educational materials. Recent additions include Rod and Staff math, Pathway readers, and CLE curriculum:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/eduswap\/eduswap.cgi\">EduSwap<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">SEWING AGAIN<\/div>\n<p>After a much-enjoyed four-month break, Dora is open for business:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/services\/sewing\">Plain Dress Sewing<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">RECIPE<\/div>\n<p>Orange Carrot Cake from Amish Cooking:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/orange-carrot-cake\/\">Cake Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At our wedding reception (30 years ago on August 1!), we served carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. That&#8217;s different from the above recipe, I know, but it&#8217;s still carrot cake. Yum!<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">A REMINDER<\/div>\n<p>When you&#8217;re ready to purchase curriculum from Christian Light Education, please enter their site through ours:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clpcle.com\">Christian Light Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of our rooms here at Anabaptist Bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s a big room. Faaaaaaaaar too big. Especially that area called Customer Service.<\/p>\n<p>I really would like to hear from you on this. I want to cut down on the size of that room. And to be most effective at that, we need your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>What can we do to improve our customer service? What complaints and concerns and disappointments &#8212; and suggestions &#8212; do you have?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/contact.php\">Contact Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years I have been very blessed and encouraged with the positive feedback hundreds have left in our business guestbook, but now I&#8217;m needing The Other Kind of feedback.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">IN CLOSING<\/div>\n<p>God wants me to have hope.<\/p>\n<p>(No surprise there; He is the God of hope!)<\/p>\n<p>So He provided me with the Scriptures. They instill in me patience and comfort&#8230;and hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope&#8221;<\/span> (Romans 15:4).<\/p>\n<p>And He allows me to believe. Through it I open the gateway to all joy and peace&#8230;and hope.<\/p>\n<p>And yet&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Where does the Bible fit in my pedal-to-the-metal, rubber-to-the-road, nose-to-the-grindstone experience of real living?<\/p>\n<p>If God&#8217;s Word in printed form lies at the periphery of my life, barely discernible and rarely discerned, where do patience and comfort and hope lie?<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a message just for me: The Bible was written to you!<\/p>\n<p>And a message just for you: The Bible was written to you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1489\">Read for Hope<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION<\/div>\n<p>I send this newsletter only to people who WANT it. (If you want to forward it to a friend &#8212; well, that&#8217;s up to you. It&#8217;s certainly fine with me.)<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, simply send a blank email to<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"mailto:abonews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com\">abonews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your help and support!<\/p>\n<p>Mark Roth<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\">http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodstaff.com\">http:\/\/www.rodstaff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clpcle.com\">http:\/\/www.clpcle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late this afternoon I sent out our April 2010 newsletter. You can get it via email from our home page. 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