God Answered Our Prayers For Wireless Internet

So folks, here is the abridged scenario........Ready to cry or pull my hair our or throw my computer against a wall.......after 2 weeks of no internet service, 30-40 dial-ups at a time just to connect and maybe have a 5 minute window before thrown off....I drove to the phone office.

In the assistant manager's office I spoke to two men and tried to be calm and hospitable and coherent. I explained the problem.

Please understand, in the African culture/context, no matter what the issue, the response is: "No problem." HUH!

I nicely stated that I did not want to be told to be patient, the small problem would be fixed shortly, or that it was someone else' problem, etc. I was there to expose the problem, the impossibility of leading an international ministry without contacting ministry partners, and I asked their counsel.

One of the men suggested a 'Telephone Memory Stick' ( which I had just purchased and found no one in the office that knew how to program it!!) but the assistant director said the phone sticks DO NOT WORK in Diebougou!!! ( I stayed quiet at this juncture, rather than let them know I had purchased one from a departing missy and never thought to inquire if it would work in our region!)

The assistant director then said...." Well, we could connect you up with wireless, if that would interest you."

WIRELESS!
IF IT WOULD INTEREST ME!!!!

Although fairly new...it HAS NOT been publicized here because they thought no one would be interested in paying for it!

YIKES!!!!

Now, in theory, I now have wireless for 24/7 at a cost of $67.00 a month. I am writing to each of you from my computer hooked to my wireless!!!!!

Now... many of our Board members have been praying about this issue for a while. A few of them have done research on systems that can be bought from the U.S. Patrice had done research on a satellite system here that would have been $5000-6000 the first year!

And now... what happens... for a hook up of $178.00 I have the antenna, modem, phone and am set to go!

A GOD STORY indeed!
Love,
Lynn