One thing that has really changed for missionaries over the last few years is the ability to stay in contact with the people at home. With email, blogs, facebook and myspace we can stay in almost daily contact with family, friends and churches (Well, except for sometimes when we are away from Guam and out in FSM or Palau - there is still no affordable broadband out there and internet access is sometimes unreliable, although we have video and audio skyped from Chuuk a couple times) It has been a lot of fun to reconnect with some people that we have not seen or talked to in a long time with these networking programs. It also is a great help with missions meetings, church communication and keeping in contact with PIBC personnel spread around the world. We now have our executive board meetings by Skype with one member in Germany, one on the US mainland and me on Guam. We are also developing our on-line distance education capacity and have offered our first fully DE course this semester.
Of course the best thing about this kind of communication is staying in touch with our grandchildren and being able to be part of their lives even though we are so far away. Last weekend we got to video conference with Michael, Samantha and the kids. Titus' 2nd birthday is today so we will send him an audio birthday card.
We did get to see him sing songs, dunk the basketall in his hoop, read his books and perform we are not sure what it was. Titus and I even bump fists on the camera. We got to see how much Courage has grown and how active she has become. And, as good grandparents we click away on the camera taking pictures. (Here are some of the pics we took) It is not quite the same as being there, but we thank God that we can spend time with them through the internet.
One thing that has really changed for missionaries over the last few years is the ability to stay in contact with the people at home. With email, blogs, facebook and myspace we can stay in almost daily contact with family, friends and churches (Well, except for sometimes when we are away from Guam and out in FSM or Palau - there is still no affordable broadband out there and internet access is sometimes unreliable, although we have video and audio skyped from Chuuk a couple times) It has been a lot of fun to reconnect with some people that we have not seen or talked to in a long time with these networking programs. It also is a great help with missions meetings, church communication and keeping in contact with PIBC personnel spread around the world. We now have our executive board meetings by Skype with one member in Germany, one on the US mainland and me on Guam. We are also developing our on-line distance education capacity and have offered our first fully DE course this semester.
Of course the best thing about this kind of communication is staying in touch with our grandchildren and being able to be part of their lives even though we are so far away. Last weekend we got to video conference with Michael, Samantha and the kids. Titus' 2nd birthday is today so we will send him an audio birthday card. 
We did get to see him sing songs, dunk the basketall in his hoop, read his books and perform we are not sure what it was. Titus and I even bump fists on the camera. We got to see how much Courage has grown and how active she has become. And, as good grandparents we click away on the camera taking pictures. (Here are some of the pics we took) It is not quite the same as being there, but we thank God that we can spend time with them through the internet.
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