Yesterday, Dad, Benjamin, and I, went to the MAF "grand welcoming" in Nampa. The MAF headquarters of the US just moved from California to this area and I must say, it was so much bigger then I had expected to see. The operations they have going are giant. The facilities are very well designed and accomidating. Computer systems are very impressive, and the people were amazing. There were Missionaries that served in so many different countries. We talked to Judy Olenik who shared some of her stories about living in the D. R. of Congo. She served 17 years altogether in Africa, countries including Madagasscar and Kenya. We talked to Jim Manley who served in Ecuador, South America for 17 years. He was really interested in some of our ideas including the Solar Radio that we can build into a book cover for around $1. Carolyn Bailey, who works in Learning Technologies. She was very up to par in Linux. They use Linux with Windows emulators, which is really cool. They gave us the whole study course on CD which we will be able to upload and make available for download. (I will let you know so you can get it!) If I remember correctly, the course has 20 different versions of the bible within 16 different languages. I would consider it highly usable for somone wishing to study languages, because of the familiarity you would have with the Bible. We also met Operation ACCESS! which is a really really neat program they use to see where work is more needed and evaluate what is being accomplished.

The Air Planes were very neat too. We got to look in some of them and some people got a ride, but there were thousands of people there and we were there later in the day so we didn't get a chance to fly.

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