Shaun Groves
Our hotel is holding faster internet access hostage. They want $1000 to speed it up and even then there’s no guarantee. So, it takes me five hours, at least, to post anything to my blog (My site’s server “times out” constantly at this slow speed, no one else is having that problem. I’m lucky like that.) It takes about seven hours to upload video to Youtube!
I asked last week if you guys believe in a personal Devil. I’m starting to. OK, I definitely do now.
Children are being released from poverty! Lots of children! The Church worldwide is being rallied daily through our blogs to defeat disease, hunger and despair through our family in Uganda. If Evil is capable of thwarting such good work, why wouldn’t it? Why wouldn’t hell try to stop the miraculous?
Please, sponsor a child today so another miracle can be worked in a child’s life.
Then, please pray for us, our technology, health, families, hotel, and readers.
Fran says:
Hey Shaun….
Bless your heart for taking the time to post the video. I hope you don’t mind me sharing it tomorrow (Friday) as I post all about this week and what I have read through my 3 daily stops at Boomama, Rocks in my Dryer, and you.
I’m a first timer to sponsor a precious girl named, Sophia, in Uganda and my heart couldn’t be more thrilled to help this child out. We CAN make a difference and we will.
Blessings and prayers~
Fran
TN
Texas in Africa says:
We’ll of course keep praying that things will go more smoothly. But you should know that the hotel is probably not lying to you (much) about the cost of higher bandwith. Internet connections in Africa are mostly via satellite, which makes them insanely expensive. Home access where I work in Congo, for example, is about $300-500/month – for speeds so slow you can’t upload pictures at all. I know that doesn’t make it better, but it’s just one of those things about this corner of the world.
Chris says:
I don’t mean for this to sound crass so please don’t hear it that way – but with the budget that Compassion must have to be taking all you guys over there, is there not a way to come up with an extra grand to make it easier for you guys to tell the stories to those of us back here who are eating up every word??
(I’m assuming – and maybe this is incorrect – that Compassion is footing the bill with the idea that the new sponsors will more than make up for the cost of the trip.)
Either way, video or no video, youtube or no youtube, flickr or no flickr, these stories are breaking our hearts and calling people to action. Thank you!
Sherry says:
I’m a visitor from Shannon’s blog RockInMyDryer, and I have been following all of you guys on this trip. Your video above was the kicker, the clencher, the deal-maker. It just pushed me over the edge to sponsoring a child. Thank you for doing the Lord’s work. Gotta discuss it with the family now.