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Please read the ­official statement of YWAM Latvia of the loss of our national director, Maris Dzelzs. Your prayers are highly desired.

Thank you,

~Chris

Please pray for our family of YWAMers at YWAM Denver in this terrible time...

read the ­CNN article here...

It seems that we keep getting undesirable comment spam on this site & it seems that it happens because there is no secure way of signing up as a new user. Is there a way we could add a captcha image system to the new user registration form to avoid any kind of automated user registration?

Thanks,

~Chris Bischoff

Alex wrote an interesting comment in the discussion about outsourcing vs. interaction & training & I thought that this was an excellent topic to spin off into a new discussion.

That's what my friend in Holland thought who is on staff with YWAM there. Although I never thought that myself, I have always struggled with the concept that programming isn't really a ministry... it's just my "day job". It seems that it's not the truth & that God is calling us who are programmers to use that skill for His kingdom. Computers in God's kingdom? What? I don't know... but it seems there may be something to that. When I was at CRIT in Harpenden, England back in May, Chong Ho spoke about his passion to see God raise up IT Missionaries... & just like the jet airplane was the revolution for missions back in the 60's, so IT is going to revolutionize missions even further now in the 21st century.

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone might have a creative solution to something. My situation is that my YWAM location has DSL internet that allows 4 dynamic IP's. We have a switch connected to our DSL modem that will grab onto an IP per one of its 4 ports. My understanding is that each of those 4 ports (or IP's) should be able to get the published speed of 768Kbps download/128 Kbps upload. Is this correct/possible? If so, here's my question... is there a way to bridge those 4 IP's & combine their summed speeds (specifically on the upload)? My reasoning for this is that our current 128 Kbps upload on one IP address is just too slow to run a GENESIS link over IP. So, I'm looking for a creative way to increase that upload speed without much or any cost increase.

Here's the review for the 2nd & final week of the seminar in Sweden at YWAM Dalarna. Over the weekend, we had some downtime where we all just spent time together & had fun playing cards, calling folks back home via Skype, as well as the occasional IP connection with YWAMers over GENESIS. We went to a church in Borlänge & then went for lunch. Some of us then walked around a local mall, while the rest of us went to Aquanova, an indoor water park with slides, pools & the very important sauna.

Hi all. I thought I'd give you a little report on how this first week has ended up.

We started off the week on Monday with Sindre putting into us the fear of God, literally. I know at least I was squirming in my seat, as I sat nearly dumbfounded with the realization of the incredible importance that this tool of GENESIS is lending to YWAM ministry, not to mention how God uses this tool, & how I, as a potential GENESIS coordinator, must act as a spiritual gatekeeper. I came to this seminar merely to become an effective "hand lender" to the GENESIS coordinator at our YWAM center in Latvia. I had no idea that I was possibly stepping into a greater role with this. I'll let you know how this pans out.