~~ Rachel Ekstand is re-uping for another year at Rain Forest International School in Yaounde, Cameroon. Hopefully she'll have something about that up on her blog.
~~ Dave Husby, Asia coordinator for Covenant World Mission, is coming for a 48-hour visit, arriving early Sunday morning. This is a stop over between Manila and Tokyo (where he lives) for him. He will be our first house guest in the condo.
Our friends Jeff and Mary Johnson are ELCA missionaries assigned to Guam. She is the academic vp at PIBC and he is the pastor of the Lutheran Church of Guam. Anyway, their regional coordinator will also be on Guam this weekend. So we're going to have an ELCA/Covenant confab over lunch at the Mangilao Country Club on Monday.
~~ Success! We've got all kinds of IT issues at PIBC. Part of the solution at this point in time is to split the Internet service and run a separate 3.2 DSL connection into the library. But we've been trying for over a week to get our router to talk to our new DSL modem -- without success. This afternoon we called the Netgear support people in California. Their 800 # doesn't work on Guam and there is no long distance access through the phone in the library -- so we finally bought a long distance phone card -- the best $5 we've spent since getting to Guam -- and made a connection with the Netgear tech support people. Within a few minutes the Internet was screaming faster than ever before into all the library computers.
The guy who worked through all of this for us was Joshua Jones -- American kid, first year out of high school, working on his network certification at GCC. We hired him as our part-time IT assistant a few months ago. This weekend he has hero status at PIBC and is basking in the glory of his success.
Next on the list -- extreme make-over of the computer lab.
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