Yup! As you can just imagine, we got to the Bible College and found out that the entire town of Kasulu was without power. It’s a national holiday today so the power company decided to do some maintenance, as best we could figure. Did I panic? No, I really laughed. It’s just the funniest thing that challenges come up like this. Test of faith? Spiritual attack? I really can’t say, but being here in the Lord’s hands, doing what he has called us to do just makes it seem ….. well… OK. I knew that if not today, than tomorrow would be the day to start. In the mean time I began to set things up with the help of Elisha, the young man from Burundi who takes care of the computers and Internet café. We got the server assembled and one of the new PC put in place and by that time, Daudi and others had gotten a gasoline generator running so we could begin to boot things up. The server installation when through without a glitch. It was one of the quickest installs of Windows 2008 I’ve ever done. By the end of the day we had just about installed all of the software we need for the system and even had time to do some testing with some wireless repeaters we brought along. Those worked great as I had hoped they would. The repeaters will allow us to have Internet access throughout the Bible College classroom facility and offices. Most important of those is the staff room where we will install a new PC for the staff to use for private preparations and such.
That took up most of the day. When we got back to the compound, we had a wonderful evening with Alastair and Helen Sammons. They are two missionaries from Britain who are stationed here for two years. Helen is the Academic Dean for the Bible College and Alastair is a surgeon who is helping out in four hospitals in the region. I tip my hat to them for the work they are doing here. It’s hard living in the rural region, even with the recent advent of 24/7 electric power and such.
Tomorrow we are going to visit our God child, Frank NDahana, Daudi’s son and do some browsing around Kasulu on market day. I’ll hopefully get some time to post some pictures tomorrow as well. Tonight the cellular Internet connection is not working well so I’ll be doing good to get this text post out.
Please continue to prayer for us. We know we have felt the power of those prayers each day. Please know that we have been blessed by them and feel a closeness of the Lord’s presence because of them. We will get back to work on the computers on Monday, so I’m just looking forward to a nice weekend of fellowship and worship together with our friends here in Kasulu.
Bill