Author Archives: Jim Baker

Quick Update – Headed to the Mainland

Hey everyone, Quick update. We had an awesome visit with our friend Sandi!  We actually spent her last night here camping!  For some reason people don’t see Jess and I as campers… but we really enjoyed it.  Above is a photo from one the days we saw the sunrise at Bellows Beach, and sunset at […]

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Hey Pastor

Hey Pastor, I know it’s your only day off this week, and you’re just trying to value one of your congregates by coming to this get together.  I appreciate it.  I know we said it’d start on time and its an hour after it was suppose to start.  Thanks for being the only one that came early. […]

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Sandi Is Here!

Hey everyone, happy Monday to you. Our friend Sandi is here she’s visiting us from Chicago.  We’ve been showing her around the island! Yesterday we went to the Bishop Museum which Jess and I had never been to which was nice. Just a quick update How was your weekend?  What are you looking forward to […]

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My Break From Social Media

[This is what I posted on instagram right before my 2 month hiatus] Holy cow… my last post about me selling my camera got over 300 views.  My average blog post gets like 30.  Interesting… I have a theory why… do you? haha Anyway… recently I spent about 60 days without social media.  No facebook, […]

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I Sold My Camera

[The last photo I’ll take with my 5dm2.] So, I’ve sold my camera.  And I’m not planning on buying a replacement. One of my former guitar students from Maryland bought it.  I can’t be more happy with him buying it.  I know he will put it to great use. Some might find me selling my […]

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Manoa Longs Armed Robbery

[Don’t be this guy…] This past Monday the Longs (CVS) right around the corner from us was robbed with a hand gun.  That’s pretty close to home.  We frequent that store often as well do other people from the YWAM base, although most of us probably aren’t there at almost midnight. What would you do […]

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July 2014 Garden Update

Hey everyone, HAPPY JULY!  Here’s a tour of what my garden looked like when I returned.  Big thanks to Spencer and Madison for tending it and the fish while I was gone. The fish are a lot bigger.  I think my pump is on its last leg though, I have to unplug it and plug […]

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Philippines!

I just realized that as far as the blog goes, it looks like we never went to the Philippines.  We did however, and had an amazing trip.  A huge thank you to everyone that prayed and gave financially so that we could go. I sent out a ministry update with the details about the trip […]

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ALOHA! We’re back in beautiful Hawaii :)

[A photo of Jess and her 94 year old Grandpa having an ice cream cone in Sarasota Florida] We are BACK in beautiful Hawaii.  Transitioning is always strange, we had been traveling on the mainland for 2 months and it became the new norm.  But as we flew into Hawaii and saw the sun shining […]

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Quick Update From South Carolina

From back to front – My dad, my niece, my sister, my mom, my other sister, my other niece, my wife and me   Unfortunately my two nephews were not there We are having a great time on the mainland.  We had a great time in Ohio with Jess’ mom and step dad and grandma. […]

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