Dear Family & Friends,
These pictures were all taken this afternoon in the Mwangaza office buildings, on the first floor of the old German missionary home.
1. Now note that Salome is in the Management Team Office along the right wall,
2.Emmanuel & Boniface are in the Management Team Office, but along the left wall,
3.while Bradley is in the Bursar's office across the hall;
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These pictures were all taken this afternoon in the Mwangaza office buildings, on the first floor of the old German missionary home.
1. Now note that Salome is in the Management Team Office along the right wall,
2.Emmanuel & Boniface are in the Management Team Office, but along the left wall,
3.while Bradley is in the Bursar's office across the hall;
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4. John & Fredy are in the computer lab down the hall,
4. John & Fredy are in the computer lab down the hall,
5. and Fredy remained there
6. while John check in with Bradley.
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John and Salome are Mwangaza's Program Directors, and our Teammates in seminars for the last 3 years. Emmanuel, Boniface, and Fredy are 3 of the Tanzanian teachers who attendd those seminars, and will be Mentors for the teachers attending next week's seminar. Michael, the 4th Mentor, is not pictured here b/c he was at the local clinic/dispensary needed medicine for a reoccurrence of malaria.
Have you guessed why everyone is smiling ?
Each is facing one of the refurbished Dells about which we wrote in the last blog. The smiles came as all were sharing in their first ever Skype conference call.
Thanks
to Kurt, Randy, and Chuck sharing their conference calling experiences;
to Salome's I T knowledge and skills;
to Bradley's troubleshooting and problem solving abilities;
to John's innovative thinking and encouragement; and ....
Imagine, or even sketch, a short line -- say 2 inches long -- with a small dot at each end and another where the center of the line is located (guessing is permitted when one is imagining). Now connect the end dots by drawing a circle that passes through them -- doesn't have to be a perfect circle when imagining. So the distance between the end points is 2 inches, the shortest possible distance between the beginning and end of that line. If God's work were to be done by the fewest people and fastest method, perhaps it would look like this, and only take 2. But perhaps God intended that His work would involve more people, and more time, resulting in the half-circle it takes to reach from the beginning to the end, and another half to connect the end back to the beginning. That's more people and more time to reach the same end -- or perhaps the end is only the beginning, as more people and more time takes us back to where we started. In other words, Thanks to many of you who have sent prayers and donations, for the first sounds from the laptops brought many smiles -- Pastor Seth would say "They were showing all their teeth !"
If you can imagine Mwangaza as the center of an expanding circle, then you will certainly be able to see the circle, and even the line, grow as 32 teachers from 8 schools gather here for next week's seminar. When the seminar ends, radii (lines from the center to the outside of the circle) will soon be reaching many kilometers in different directions, into different dioceses and regions of Tanzania, representing the routes the teachers, and one laptop for each school, will take back to their schools.
John & Salome, the 4 Mentors, and the 8 Teacher-Teams will then use Skype conference calls each month, sending signals along those same routes to stay connected, and growing professionally, for the next 12 months.
And, if they will sometimes wait until afternoon to make their calls, perhaps we will get up a bit early (8 hours difference, so 2 PM for them is 6 AM for us) and join in the conversations.
John and Salome are Mwangaza's Program Directors, and our Teammates in seminars for the last 3 years. Emmanuel, Boniface, and Fredy are 3 of the Tanzanian teachers who attendd those seminars, and will be Mentors for the teachers attending next week's seminar. Michael, the 4th Mentor, is not pictured here b/c he was at the local clinic/dispensary needed medicine for a reoccurrence of malaria.
Have you guessed why everyone is smiling ?
Each is facing one of the refurbished Dells about which we wrote in the last blog. The smiles came as all were sharing in their first ever Skype conference call.
Thanks
to Kurt, Randy, and Chuck sharing their conference calling experiences;
to Salome's I T knowledge and skills;
to Bradley's troubleshooting and problem solving abilities;
to John's innovative thinking and encouragement; and ....
Imagine, or even sketch, a short line -- say 2 inches long -- with a small dot at each end and another where the center of the line is located (guessing is permitted when one is imagining). Now connect the end dots by drawing a circle that passes through them -- doesn't have to be a perfect circle when imagining. So the distance between the end points is 2 inches, the shortest possible distance between the beginning and end of that line. If God's work were to be done by the fewest people and fastest method, perhaps it would look like this, and only take 2. But perhaps God intended that His work would involve more people, and more time, resulting in the half-circle it takes to reach from the beginning to the end, and another half to connect the end back to the beginning. That's more people and more time to reach the same end -- or perhaps the end is only the beginning, as more people and more time takes us back to where we started. In other words, Thanks to many of you who have sent prayers and donations, for the first sounds from the laptops brought many smiles -- Pastor Seth would say "They were showing all their teeth !"
If you can imagine Mwangaza as the center of an expanding circle, then you will certainly be able to see the circle, and even the line, grow as 32 teachers from 8 schools gather here for next week's seminar. When the seminar ends, radii (lines from the center to the outside of the circle) will soon be reaching many kilometers in different directions, into different dioceses and regions of Tanzania, representing the routes the teachers, and one laptop for each school, will take back to their schools.
John & Salome, the 4 Mentors, and the 8 Teacher-Teams will then use Skype conference calls each month, sending signals along those same routes to stay connected, and growing professionally, for the next 12 months.
And, if they will sometimes wait until afternoon to make their calls, perhaps we will get up a bit early (8 hours difference, so 2 PM for them is 6 AM for us) and join in the conversations.
Peace and blessings, Mike and Sharon
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