I was born on 6 August 1956 in San Francisco, California to Janet and (the late) Richard Hovis.
I grew up in Santa Monica, California where I attended elementary, junior high school, and high school (graduating in 1974), in addition to involvement in sports and recreation (Little League +, the Boy’s Club ++). Further, it was in elementary school – St. Augustine’s By-the -Sea Parish School that I found, and made the choice to truly journey with God.
I attended Arizona State University from 1974 to 1977 – seeking to become an architect, however, I was not accepted, and, as such, I graduated with a Liberal Arts degree.
Upon graduation from Arizona State University, I attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and studied City and Regional Planning at the Master’s level. I successfully completed one (1) year in a two (2) year program – I did not complete the Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning – due to personal reasons.
I returned to Santa Monica where I started (October 1979) my career as graphic designer with Exxon Company, USA. I spent five years with Exxon Company, USA.
While working with Exxon Company, USA I was accepted into architectural school – Sci-Arc in Southern California, however, I did not attend preferring to stay with Exxon..
In 1982 I married Laura Flosi and in April 1983 we had our one and only child – Lauren Alain Hovis – a gift from God.
We moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1984 from Los Angeles, where I went to work as a graphic designer with Kitchell CEM (from 1985 -1987).
From 1987 – 1995 I was an independent contractor, and a registered representative in mortgage finance, financial management, graphic design, and drafting.
Further, I attended the University of Phoenix and successfully obtained a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in 1982.
I was also a member of the Scottsdale Jaycees, where I became very involved in community events and projects.
In 1994, I accepted a cartography position with the Defense Mapping Agency in Reston, Virginia. As such, I relocated from Phoenix to Reston.
In 1998, I was accepted and worked as a Visual Information Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2002, I worked as a Support Officer until my retirement (due to a need for shoulder surgery) in September 2018.
Away from my Federal Government service, I have been involved in various organizations and activities in Northern Virginia.
In November of 2011, I married Rebecca Ouellette in Santa Monica, California. I reside in San Tan Valley, AZ with my two hamster - Jess and Timothy, our fish, our lizard - RJ Lizard., and our cats - Pearl and Grey.
As to hobbies, I enjoy playing sports, attending sporting events, mentoring individuals from financial management to hamsters, building models, photography, travel, multimedia design, managing partner for RJ Hamster, and jazz – smooth jazz to a samba or a bossa nova.
Love and God Bless,
Peter – aka RJ Hamster Jo hi
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Later this week, people in Israel will celebrate Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, to remember the reunification of the Holy City in 1967. This year’s celebration will take place under a cloud of threat and imminent danger because of the certain knowledge that missiles could again start raining down at any moment. The Jewish people are suffering right now and dealing with so much, and they urgently need our help. We have received a generous matching gift challenge that will double your gift to help twice as many people—so please be as generous as you can when you send your gift today.
The situation is urgent. So many people have lost homes, family members, and even everything they owned in the missile attacks. I’m thinking about families like the Cohens. They buried six family members on the day their son was supposed to have his bar mitzvah. We helped them with the medical bills, buying clothing, and more, and they were so grateful. But there are so many others in urgent need.
The people of Israel are suffering greatly right now, and while they need our prayers, they also need our help. Together we are answering the command of God, “Comfort ye My people.” Together we are telling, and more importantly showing, the people of Israel that they are not alone. Please send your most generous gift today and share this with everyone you know.
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(21) For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: (22) Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: (23) Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: King James VersionChange email Bible version
The world will not submit to God, which is why the world is in the state that it is! Rather than submit to God, men seek to gratify – or satisfy – their desires. The pattern began early, when Helel (commonly mistranslated as “Lucifer“) did it, resulting in war with God! Then came Adam and Eve, who also did not submit to God. God said, “You may eat of all of the trees in the Garden” – there may have been hundreds of them – “but there is that one there of which I do not want you to eat.” Instead, they followed their own desire, taking from the very tree God said not to eat. This, of course, brought them into conflict with God!
The Christian is called to suppress his lusts. It is not wrong to have desire, but it is wrong not to suppress the lust that can lead a person to exceed his own authority and therefore bring himself into a state of disobedience or non-submission to the authority that God permits in this world.
So to this we were called. We are to be among the first harvest, which will include all of those people, beginning with righteous Abel, who submitted to God rather than man. They did what they did for the same reason that we will do what we will do – we all see God ruling His creation and know that our first priority in life is to submit to Him!
Jesus Christ, Peter says, committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. Jesus knew that Pilate was wrong. He knew that Ananias was wrong and that all the Sanhedrin was wrong. But He submitted to death and to the authority that was constituted by God in those men. He knew there would be a judgment. Those men will be judged for what they did by the very God that Christ, by faith, submitted to. He let God make the decision as to whether He was doing what was right or whether Ananias and Pilate were doing what was right. He did not resist the government, but allowed them to take His life. The resurrection proves that Jesus was right. The resurrection shows God’s judgment because He vindicated His Son.
I hope we get the point: God will vindicate us by a resurrection because we submit to Him and to His way even though we may be caught in the evil of abusive people in positions of power – whether husband, employer, local police, or national government.
It’s starting to feel real. In less than a month, fans from around the globe will be tuning in and filling up iconic stadiums for the most popular sporting event across the globe — the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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It has been 56 days. Longer than I planned. Longer than I intended.
I could have come back with something polished, something safe, something that made it seem like I never left.
But that would not be honest.
These past 56 days have felt much less like progress and much more like a wilderness.
There have been health battles in my home that I did not see coming. An unexpected uprooting that shifted everything. And in the middle of it all, I have felt stretched beyond what is comfortable or controllable.
I keep thinking about how God moves in specific timeframes throughout Scripture.
Fifty-two days, and the wall was rebuilt. Forty days in the wilderness, where everything is tested.
But we rarely talk about what those days actually feel like when you are in them.
They do not feel powerful in the moment.
They feel slow. Uncertain. Heavy.
And if I am honest, God has been teaching me something I thought I already understood:
Long suffering.
Not just patience. Not simply waiting.
But a deep, Spirit-produced endurance that holds onto God even when nothing seems to be changing.
Longsuffering is remaining rooted when life feels unresolved. It is trusting God without a timeline.
It is continuing to believe He is good, even when the season is not.
I am still walking through it.
Still learning how to lean on Him instead of trying to make sense of everything.
But I know this: God has not left.
Not in the silence. Not in the stretching. Not in these 56 days.
And if you have been in your own kind of wilderness lately, you are not alone.
Thank you for staying with me.
I do not take that lightly.
I am leaning on God now more than ever, and I am grateful that you are here walking through this with me.
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The number of service members deployed overseas is increasing constantly due to the conflict in the Middle East. And for these soldiers, strain doesn’t come from just one place.
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A long-established swift nesting site is at risk and we urgently need your help.
At the Pound Road (Banstead) swift colony, a newly installed flue pipe has been positioned directly in front of an active swift nesting entrance, blocking access to a site these incredible birds have reportedly used successfully for many years.
This issue was identified and raised by the brilliant local conservation group Banstead Swifts, whose dedicated volunteers have worked tirelessly to monitor, protect, and advocate for swifts in the area. Without groups like Banstead Swifts, many nesting sites – and the birds that depend on them —- would simply go unnoticed and unprotected.
Swifts are one of Britain’s fastest declining birds.
They travel thousands of miles from Africa every year to return to the exact same nesting sites – only to increasingly find them gone, blocked, or destroyed. The loss of nesting spaces is one of the main reasons their populations are collapsing across the UK.
And now it is happening again.
Banstead Swifts said on Sunday they saw a Swift collide with the pipe, fall, then return and try to access the nest between the pipe and brickwork. They’ve seen no nest entries since.
What makes this especially frustrating is that this situation appears entirely avoidable.
The flue pipe could reportedly be repositioned relatively easily, restoring access to the nest and protecting this important breeding site.
We are urging Raven Housing Trust to act immediately and demonstrate genuine commitment to wildlife protection and biodiversity by moving the flue pipe before this nesting site is lost.
Please take a moment to sign our petition to Raven Housing Trust politely and respectfully asking them to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
Every nesting site matters. Every pair matters. And if we continue allowing sites like this to disappear, we will continue watching swifts vanish from our skies.
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