The blogosphere will be missing a couple of faithful bloggers over the next season.  Heather Whittaker (aka Whittakerwoman) and Crystal Renaud (aka PinkHairedGirl) both long-term bloggers are on blogging sabbaticals of indefinite length.

Heather, one of the sweetest gals ever and wife of well-known North Point – Buckhead Campus worship leader Carlos Whittaker, is going to focus on her family and take a break from the fishbowl she lives in.  Her public blog will likely resume in the fall following a summer break.  (If you’re a personal friend of Heather’s you can email her and she’ll give you access to a “private” site she’ll use for keeping those of us updated who will miss her public blog.)

Crystal Renaud, a Kansas City based gal who’s on staff at Westside Family Church, is taking a refreshment break and will devote any writing she does to the book she is working on.  I first learned of Crystal and her unique ministry through Anne Jackson and look forward to the many ways God will use her in the future.  Her departure from the blogosphere might seem abrupt but actually she’s been contemplating for awhile….

If you follow either of these ladies blogs, would you consider praying for them while they use their time off for rest, motivation and fresh inspiration.

I, too, am planning a blogging sabbatical and will take at least a month off during the summer for our relocation from SoCal to NorCal – more on that later.

Of course, none of us will stop tweeting (women have daily word quotas to meet ya know) so it’s easy enough to follow our lifestreams via microblogging on Twitter:

• http://twitter.com/whittakerwoman
• http://twitter.com/pinkhairedgirl
• http://twitter.com/cynthiaware