You say good-bye, I say hello

There are always comings and goings in both the analog (real) world and also the cyber-world of blogdom. Via the Height-Endowed Ectomorphic New Zealander (Andrew Jones), I learned the sad news that Andrew "Hamo" Hamilton (another brilliantly blogging Kiwi), who has blogged for the last four years at Backyard Missionary, is hanging up his skates, so to speak. Hamo will be missed.

At the same time, I'd like everyone to say hello to two new additions to the Journeymates: Swinging From The Vine and Adventures In Mercy.

Molly is the slightly-frozen Alaskan behind Adventures In Mercy, and we've been getting to know each other via her blog and email for the past few months; she writes from a unique perspective, well worth tuning in for.

Ari is another blogger following in the footsteps of Brother Maynard and Emerging Grace, utilizing a pseudonym in the Blogger Protection Program. Ari and her husband Adrian have become good friends over the past year, and their blog, Swinging From The Vine, is a welcome addition.

Update

Another set of new Journeymates: Australian John Smulo blogs at (appropriately enough) SmuloSpace. John is a scurvy bilge rat of a tagger, but dangit -- he's got a good blog! John is also the initiator and guru behind Missional Apologetics, which I had recently linked to along with Rick The Blind Beggar Meig's Friend Of Missional. And speaking of Rick, it's high time he was linked as a Journeymate, too.

As Capt. Jean-Luc Picard would say, "Make it so."