 Freshly re-imaged Andriod Tablet |
Today was an DWT office day. Canon Mafumbi, who heads up the financial offices for the Diocese wanted to have network file and print sharing setup with their three laptop computers; his computer, the accounts and the cashier computer. It took a little while for me to get that going as I’m normally used to Active Directory domain computers to configure rather than a small work group. Never the less, I got them working together sharing files and sharing Mafumbi’s printer.
After this I worked a bit more on the DWT compound wireless network setting two repeaters they can use to extend the network into the new house and hostel rooms when they have guests visiting. The units are small and portable so the can be plugged into any electrical outlet.
I also fixed an Android tablet that I left here on our last trip. It gave it to Emmanuel Bwatta to use and experiment with as a trial unit for the 20 tablets we brought with us on this trip. The only problem was I had played around with the operating system before hand. Apparently when an OS update came through, the changes I made caused the boot up to fail. Fortunately I was able to download some tools to re-image the unit back to it’s factory installation state. So it is back up and running. I passed it back to Emmanuel. Hopefully he will have no further trouble with it.
 Good Shepherd Church |
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Later today we were invited to visit Mchungaji Mwema (Good Shepherd) Church, which is the Marusi district of Kasulu. Cathy and I have visited the parish before. It was good to see the progress they have made with purchasing surrounding property so that they can work towards building a more lasting building for worship. We had dinner with Paster Ndenza and then traveled back to the compound for the evening. As you can see from the pictures, the current church building is nothing more than a wood post and frame structure with reed matting for the sides with tarps to keep the rain out and a corrugated metal roof. My hope is that my home church, St. Paul’s will step up to help Good Shepherd with their fund raising to build a permanent building. I guess I’ll be talking to them when I get back from our trip.
Tonight we are enjoying a quiet time at home, writing in our blogs and drinking Chai Bora tea, a favorite here in Tanzania. By the way, if you’ve noticed that my blog posts have been somewhat short, it’s because my Bluetooth keyboard decided to quit working just before we left the USA. So I’ve been typing on the screen keyboard. It actually works pretty good, but it’s definitely slower than a regular keyboard. So please forgive any typo’s.
I give thanks to the Lord for the time we have been here. We had a wonderful time so far with more blessings to look forward to. I’m especially looking forward to this weekend when we worship at St. Michaels Church in Kigoma. I’ll say more about that in a later post. For now, just taking in the moment we are in is good enough for me.
Peace be with you friends,
Canon Bill