Wired RAD on the SAT Phone

Hello everyone:

Once again I got a message from PAMA, this time it was from RAD. He called right around the time I was on the lake this afternoon, baptizing some dear friends, as we enjoyed a great celebration with people from our church.

If you are like me, I am sure you have appreciated RAD's style of writing in his blog entries. He writes the way he talks and that is what is so good about the stuff he's been writing. It is also heartfelt and I appreciate that a lot. Many of you have remarked on how these blog entries have moved you to tears. Me too...

Well, this phone call is "RAD vintage," as the thoughts move freely in his head and he just goes from one to another in just one long breath. And it doesn't help that the whole time you have this "sheeeeeee" sound going on in the background, like that of a loud CPU on a computer.

I did find it funny, though, that RAD, who is perhaps the most "wired" guy on our staff, always up with the latest computer gadgets that make some of us feel like we belong to the Flintstones' age, had a little trouble hanging up the satellite phone. Right at the end of the call, after he said bye, you can hear his faint voice going: "And to hang up I just push the phone button?”

Please, remember to pray for the team as they travel back to Bangui tomorrow and be much in prayer for the electricity to be working in Bangui, at least long enough for RAD to negotiate the cyber cafe and get his stuff sent to me. It may be Tuesday by the time I am able to upload the stuff to the blog, but you may try tomorrow. Who knows?

Pastor Ivanildo Trindade

Here is the message from RAD for Sunday, August 12, 2007.

“Ivanildo, hey, it’s RAD calling, bro, Africa. Quick phone call, man, it’s time for us to turn in, it’s 10:00 at night here, but sorry we missed you. Tonight was a good night, we had a chance to show the Jesus film and another film on spirit animism. Had really a great crowd, good time, just praying along with people as they were watching and good morning in church. Looking forward to catch up with you guys tomorrow, as we’re heading back to Bangui. I’ve been writing the blog every day we’ve been here and so I will upload all those tomorrow when I get back to Bangui, so you will have quite a bit of editing to do and to get that up, but thanks for having people praying along with us, man, we miss talking to you, bro and look forward to seeing you pretty soon, all right? Take care, bye."