Yes, we are still here! Isn't it interesting that in the age of quick communications, we seem to have
trouble finding time to communicate! Perhaps Saint Paul had the right idea to just have a scribe
wandering along with him to jot down his words and thoughts.
We had hoped to be in New Mexico very soon after we wrote our last letter to you at the first of this
year, BUT that did not happen because the promised shipping of the radio transmitter from the factory
in Costa Rica was delayed. So, we took some short trips instead...one to South Carolina investigating
some radio towers and then, on to North Carolina, purchasing and dropping off materials at SIM
headquarters for a future antenna that is to be built in Liberia this fall.
In April, we decided to go to Costa Rica to see about "our" transmitters...not only the one for New
Mexico, but one for Liberia. It was an extreme month...lots of emotional ups and downs, but at the end
both transmitters were crated up and out the door just a few short hours before we were.
May saw us in Ohio (a big radio meeting) Indiana (picking up components for the project in New
Mexico) and Michigan (saying hey to a few dear people and supporters) as well as Florida (dropping
off a load of used computers for a mission organization) with a couple of interesting vehicle break
downs and rescuing angels. We also learned that two people CAN drive a car at the same time when
the accelerator cable breaks if you tie a wire to the end of the broken cable and snake it up under the
hood into the passenger window....one person works the accelerator by pulling on the wire and the
other person steers and works the brake. Easy!
In June we packed our van with many, many heavy things and drove to Vado, New Mexico to install
the new transmitter (see front photo) and to build and put up a new antenna (too big to put in a photo).
As most of you have also experienced, it was a VERY HOT summer and working outside in the desert
to get the antenna up required a bit of gumption! The other photos show some of the heavy muscle we
had to put into it. There were, fortunately, some extra, willing, helping hands besides ours or we would
be there yet. We finally came back on August 18.
We now are planning and packing for a trip to Liberia to do the same thing all over again with their
new transmitter and their new antenna. If we thought New Mexico was hot, wait until we get to
Africa:-) Final details for the trip are still being planned, but we are thinking early October through
early December. Please put your prayer knees to work in our behalf.
And we thank you that many of you also continue to put your prayer dollars in our ministry pocket.
What a blessed team the Lord collects unto himself.
