| Ministry Update - August 29
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- We returned last week from our mission’s biennial conference in Switzerland. We enjoyed great teaching from speaker Charles Price and his wife Hilary, and times of fellowship with the other Avant missionaries serving in various European fields. Switzerland is a beautiful place, even though it rained just about every other day. The rain and greenery was a welcome change from the dry climate of southern Spain. Tim led a “discussion group” on internet security for one of the sessions; he is really good at explaining technical things!
- On Friday, our first full day back at the office, Tim ran into all sorts of computer problems! (At least the computers waited until he got back before breaking!) All day Friday and through the weekend, he worked on completely reinstalling the network phone system, along with fixing some problems on his own computer. He is also working on finding a way to more efficiently back up the phone system, in the case of another incompatibility issue.
- Tim came across a possible solution for a much-needed networked video storage system, and is now setting up test computers and trying it out. If his tests prove the system workable, it will enable us to set up a server almost equivalent to Apple’s servers, using open source software and non-proprietary hardware. (Translation: it will do the same thing for cheaper, built and programmed by our own IT personnel.)
- Here in the video studio, we’re preparing for another Arabic video shoot. We’ll be finishing shooting several more programs for the Sermon of Jesus series (the one we were working on in May). The set we built is still in the studio, but will need to be cleaned up and have some of the props put back in to make it ready for shooting.
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| Some Kind of Ruckus
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AKA, “A Spanish Midnight Fiesta”
All night I’ve been hearing some kind of big gathering or party just down the street. Sounds like a lot of people are having a lot of fun. At one point they were all singing something, then clapping, cheering, and just a minute ago there were loud noises from what could have been fireworks. (All the neighborhood dogs had to start barking at the noises of course, but by now they’ve subsided considerably.)
It’s after midnight but I don’t think the party will die down anytime soon. Yup, they’ve just started up again with the singing. I suppose I can either go to bed with my windows shut and my ipod playing, or walk down the street to go join them!
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