I have a Nokia 5000 and a Twitter account. Sometimes, I like to send a tweet while on the run but for some reason recent changes un-verified my phone number here in Tanzania. Took me about half an hour to track down how to verify it again, because the ‘Mobile’ [formerly 'Devices'] section in the [...]
Beginning January 3, 2010, our language project will broadcast a weekly pre-recorded mother tongue radio program. The Christian station with whom we have a contract has a fairly new tower which reaches up to 100km radius. That means these radio programs can be heard in at least part of every one of the 10 languages [...]
I had been wanting to see him since nearly 6 months had passed since we were face-to-face. Since my mother’s remarriage and our subsequent move to Charleston, SC, I now had about a 4 hour drive between me and my dad. If I can just hold out for a couple of weeks, I’ll see him [...]
Another interesting moth we found on our back doorstep.
http://www.scripture-engagement.org/content/advice-scripture-and-drama-recording
This is a great (very short) article with a downloadable .pdf with advice for recording drama-styled Scripture. Even though you may not be doing this time of work, it gives you a glimpse of the kinds of things we need to consider as we go into the studio to record mother tongue materials.
To arrive at our house it is advised to have 4WD. After driving about 0.5 mi into the neighborhood (all rough dirt road) you descend into a small valley. From there, the short, steep climb up to our house is about a 300 ft increase in altitude. Remember… all dirt. And what time of the [...]
‘Bustani’ is Swahili for garden. Now that rain time is here, we had our gardener load the ground with our favorite vegetable seeds. The following are pictures of our garden area. Everything except trees, strawberries and pumpkins are at 5 days in the ground with nothing sprouting as of yet (UPDATE: looked at garden [...]
The rainy season has fueled our plants to start showing off how God made them.
The full moon coming up over Mbeya from the east.
This post has nothing to do with my mission work. Just to let you know.
I’ve had a problem in trying to change notifications in the Skype Preferences pane (I’m using OS X, by the way). But, every time I clicked on the red flag (Notifications), Skype would freeze for up to a minute, then crash. [...]
