Most of my work so far has been done at a desk and involved monitoring, tuning and updating servers and network equipment. It's a complex environment that I really enjoy.
Today was a little different.
The center often has national (ie, Papua New Guinea) translators, pastors, teachers, literacy workers, etc come to Ukarumpa from all over the country in order to train together. These people leave their families and work behind for weeks at a time in order to be better equipped for God's work among their own people.
In the past couple of years, the center has been building a training center in an open area. So far they've built the training building (several offices and 3 large classrooms) and a multi-storied dormitory. Currently they're building a dining facility to further meet the needs of those being trained.
A connection to the computer network had been installed in the training center but it used old technology and was pretty slow. Before we arrived, the computer department had already buried fiber optic cable in the ground between our offices and the training center and time had come to complete putting connectors on both ends of the cable and hook the training center onto the network.
One of the classrooms I was working in was being used today to teach literacy workers how to teach a Bible story and how to teach people how to read. I didn't hear much for very long but I enjoyed watching one of the students practice teaching the other students using a visual aid posted on the wall.
I'd never done any work with fiber optics before and it was fascinating to work with the computer manager (my boss) and the head of the Help Desk as they finished this project. In addition, I helped my boss configure two new wireless access points and install them in both ends of the training center so that both instructors and students would be able to connect their laptop computers to the network, getting their email and browsing the internet. I understand that the fiber optic cable we hooked up today will provide 10 times the speed of the one we replaced.
That speed improvement is helping translators work better and faster.
Praise God!
Today was a little different.
The center often has national (ie, Papua New Guinea) translators, pastors, teachers, literacy workers, etc come to Ukarumpa from all over the country in order to train together. These people leave their families and work behind for weeks at a time in order to be better equipped for God's work among their own people.
In the past couple of years, the center has been building a training center in an open area. So far they've built the training building (several offices and 3 large classrooms) and a multi-storied dormitory. Currently they're building a dining facility to further meet the needs of those being trained.
A connection to the computer network had been installed in the training center but it used old technology and was pretty slow. Before we arrived, the computer department had already buried fiber optic cable in the ground between our offices and the training center and time had come to complete putting connectors on both ends of the cable and hook the training center onto the network.
One of the classrooms I was working in was being used today to teach literacy workers how to teach a Bible story and how to teach people how to read. I didn't hear much for very long but I enjoyed watching one of the students practice teaching the other students using a visual aid posted on the wall.
I'd never done any work with fiber optics before and it was fascinating to work with the computer manager (my boss) and the head of the Help Desk as they finished this project. In addition, I helped my boss configure two new wireless access points and install them in both ends of the training center so that both instructors and students would be able to connect their laptop computers to the network, getting their email and browsing the internet. I understand that the fiber optic cable we hooked up today will provide 10 times the speed of the one we replaced.
That speed improvement is helping translators work better and faster.
Praise God!
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