Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

Here’s the article. 

I hope this doesn’t materialize and especially doesn’t catch on to be the norm for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the country.  Internet access in Tanzania is operated like this and it hurts, I tell ya.  Once we get back to TZ, we’ll have that kind of set up where we buy internet ‘credit’ to use by paying Tsh. 95 per MB.  At today’s exchange rate, that’s a little over 8 cents per megabyte.

To put it into perspective, while in TZ if we want to download one of John Piper’s free sermon podcasts which average around 12MB each, we’ll spend about $1USD.  When sermon podcasts are an intricate part of your spiritual nourishment while on the mission field, those little dollars add up quickly.  On top of that, it’s not a dollar going to a ministry, it’s going to Time Warner.

Unlimited true high speed internet, anything equivalent to dial-up in the USA and faster (trust me, I’ve surfed while in foreign countries), is a beautiful thing.  Cherish it. A lot.