Serving at Faith Academy in the Philippines with EFCCM
As a family we get used to sharing almost anything. Desserts are cut as precise as possible to keep a notion of fair. "I was there first" is the law of sharing the couch. And "'dib's shower" starts the que. But there is little generational wisdom and tradition to guide the sharing of the new precious commodity: down load and upload speed. One teacher, five high schoolers, three home schoolers, and a mom who networks the whole city to find food all sharing speeds that start with "k" not "M" for bytes per second. We've decided to sell one of our children, it will be worth it, to pay for an upgrade in internet speed.
A faux-haiku about my dream:
Imagine……..a zoom call……….the whole thing……...without cutting out.
Because they could not get home with such short notice, we have taken in three students who could not make it back to their home country. "It has been great getting to know you" as we all say signing a yearbook. Last night I was up past 3:00 am with two guys writing the AP exams that now must be simultaneous around the world. We have thought for some years that we would be dorm parents someday, but it never worked out, until now, in the strangest of times.
Did you see the prayer request there? Lets summarize: pray for our sanity as we feed and house 8 growing boys in a house that now is never less than 30C during waking hours, with internet speeds that are useless, in a country that has one of the strictest lock downs. And pray the guys can get home in June.
