George Etheredge and a team went to Mulungwishi, DR Congo, Africa around the first of Semptember. They went to the same place I went to on my mission trip. Here are links to the pictures he took.
Trip to Mulungwishi from Lubumbashi
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Here is a photo of our mission trip team that went to Mulungwishi, DR Congo, Africa.
This is a picture of me and my new friend Cedrick. Notice the Connection Church shirt he is wearing! Cedrick is the seminary’s IT guru. The room we are in is the computer lab. The computer lab was not operational while we were there because we had no electricity.
I got most of the pictures up on my Google album. I still have pictures that I need to take off my iPhone and upload. My Google album has the pictures from most of the team that went on the mission trip. I am still waiting on two of the other team members that I am getting pictures from.
I made it back home yesterday evening safe and sound. It is so good to be back home. I actually got to take a hot shower…it felt so wonderful. Melanie and I went to Whataburger for supper and let me tell you, a hamburger never tasted so wonderful! I was so happy to see the kids again, I thought my heart was going to explode when they ran up to me. I will be posting a lot more about the mission trip. There is so much to tell. I took around 1000 pictures, plus with the pictures I got from the team, we have around 2000 total. Plus we got some digital video. It will take some time to upload everything, but I will start to post pictures in a couple of days. I have so many emotions going on in me right now. I am so happy to be home, but yet my heart is broken because I could not do more.
God Bless Your Day!
Well, I am heading off tomorrow for Africa. Please be praying for me, and our Mission Team, excpecially during my fights. My back does not do too well when I travel and am on long flights. Here is my flight schedule:
Leave Austin 6:19am to Chicago 9:00am (06-19)
Leave Chicago 3:46pm (06-19) to London 5:55am (06-20)
Leave London 8:00pm (06-20) to Nairobi 6:30am (06-21)
Leave Nairobi 8:05am to Lubumbashi 12:20pm (06-21)
Leave Lumbumbashi ??? to Mulungwishi ??? all I can tell you is this will be around 120 mile drive on a dirt road. (I might be off on this, it might be around 84 miles) I get car sick if I’m not in front or driving…so hopefully this goes well.
I don’t know how often I will be able to post while I am gone, but I will try. God Bless!
10 more days until I leave. I am excited and nervous all at the same time. There is so much to do and so little time to do it in. I was looking at the weather conditions where I will be and found this website. It doesn’t look too bad, but take this into consideration: there is no air conditioning or heating in the buildings, and from what I found out today, no running hot water. I was told I needed to try and get some type of heating bag, 2 gallons, to take so I can at least take a warm “shower”. All I have to say is I will be having flash backs from when I was in the Marine Corps!!! Yikes!!!
Melanie came home the other day and told me that I got another check for $100 for the mission trip. To the donor, I want to say thank you so much. You are a very special lady!
So, here is an update. I have purchased 4 wireless access points off of eBay. Yeah for eBay! Now I have to get the antennas for these, that is going to cost around $300 - $400, yikes! I have also purchased a used Dell laptop from eBay. Yeah for eBay…again!!! I really need a computer to use while I am there, plus, I am going to leave it there so they can get some good use from it.
I started doing some really heavy thinking last night and realized that the power in DR Congo is 220. The access points that I got are 110. The power supply cannot handle the 220. So now I have to buy some converters….it never ends!!! I found a website that has the converters for around $13 each. If anyone knows where I can get them cheaper, email me.
Magic Jack…this thing is really cool. I wrote a small post about it the other day. It has been working great. So what does the Magic Jack have to do with the mission trip? By the way, the Magic Jack is a VOIP phone service that cost $50 the first year and like $20 each year after. So, what does it have to do with the mission trip? Well, I am going to buy another one and take it with me. I bought cheap telephone from Wal-Mart today, one that does not require external power, to see if it worked on my Magic Jack…it did. That was great news. So I am going to take the phone and Magic Jack with me so the mission team will be able to call back home for free! Including me! My plan is to keep the Magic Jack there this way the communication from DR Congo to the USA is free. Isn’t technology wonderful…isn’t GOD wonderful!!!! I just hope that the government over there isn’t blocking certain Internet traffic, so please be praying that this works. This technology is going to be HUGE for them if it all works. Anyways, that’s all for now.
God Bless Your Day!
I got a really awesome view of the area I will be in while in Africa. I asked some of the staff at the seminary if they had a drawing or map of the area, this way I know what I am dealing with for the wireless I’m going to install. This is the google map they gave me. Mulungwishi
Seeing this really pumps me up. It makes it more real.
If anyone has an extra Linksys wireless access point I could use it on my mission trip to Africa. I need around 3 - 4 of these. The model number I am looking at is WAP54G. I am specifically looking at this because I have to order different antennas for these and the connectors are specific. Here is a link to NewEgg if someone were looking at buying it new. They are cheap!
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