November 2010 Beginners - Check your Spam Filters!

A total of 82 beginners were approved for the next class starting this coming week. One week ago we sent out confirmation letters, and only 43 were responded to. While we normally do expect to lose a few emails along the way, and at least 5 of those emails did come back as unanswerable, we are concerned that the rest of the confirmations didn't get to their destinations because of aggressive spam filtering.

Make sure that you've checked to see if kemet.org or netjer.org emails are in your spam filters if you were expecting a mail from us. Also, try very hard to hit the "delete" button rather than the "spam" button in your email - in particular, AOL has been reporting that people have been clicking "spam" buttons on some of our mailings, resulting in issues with these mails reaching our members of all membership types. Put us in your preferred senders listing if you can and it will make sure you don't miss important email!

Welcome 19 new members!

Em hotep to the children of Netjer!

Please join me in welcoming the 19 newest members of the Kemetic Orthodox Faith:

Jessica B. of Australia
James B. of New Jersey
Aileen D. of Brazil
Rachel F. of Pennsylvania
Justin H. of South Carolina
Amber I. of Texas
Olivia K. of England
Mallory K. of Illinois
Kira M. of New York
Erik M. of New Jersey
Linda M. of Indiana
Eliott M. of Washington, DC
Mark N. of Michigan
Larissa P. of New York
Saphrone "Ron" S. of North Carolina
Rodrigo "Agathos" S. of Brazil
Tori S. of Trinidad and Tobago
Karess W. of California
Jess W. of Minnesota

Nekhtet for the new Remetj!

Seven Years and Counting

Seven years ago this morning I was sitting in a very small room at a title company, talking to a lawyer and a realtor and waiting for an amazing moment, when the mother superior of the Hermanas Josefinas would hand me a tiny flowered box containing the keys to a building located at 664 Landau Avenue in Joliet, Illinois: their former convent and our future Tawy House Kemetic Orthodox Temple and Retreat Center.

Our purchase of Tawy House II, as it has come to be known (the first Tawy House was a temporary retreat center and shrine space, founded in Michigan at the location of my childhood home, and did not have a formal full-time temple space), was a major change in the history of our Kemetic Orthodox Faith.