Skype meeting, May 23

Check out our new website with info about the trip! It should be fully developed by the end of this weekend.

To Do

• Put a paypal donate/loan link on facebook/blog/site
• Need to request donations/loans for internet cafe
• Sayler: talk to Riann about website
• Susan: create list of materials, outline of what we'll be doing
• Need to get ethernet crimper
  

Prayer

• Kieran: hasn't heard from prof yet, not sure if he's in the office Monday; might get an extra day if he's in tuesday; has to finish thesis quickly
• Matt: moving into his new house this weekend
  
• Susan: switched jobs; pray that taking time off will go smoothly; praise - got inheritance money!
  
• Liz (all): funding
  
• Sayler: needs to sell a house
• Jer: same old; busy/stressed at work
  
• General
• Protection/safety
• Funding

Skype meeting, May 16

Update

• Kieran might have to take his final test after June 20, which would mean he couldn't go to Burundi; has to finish up his final revision by Friday

Planning update:

• Internet cafe: got numbers, need to plan budget
• Nyanzalac - care packages, evangelism

To do

• Liz: bring chalk/dry erase markers, paper
• Equipment list by Wednesday
• Plan for VBS: how many kids max, how many helpers, etc
• Need to create budget for while we're there - transportation, care packages, etc
• Will create tentative budget then pass it by everyone
• Need to figure out how long it takes to get to Nyanzalac
• Plan for management, contract, something that makes sense to them
• Bubblewrap, FedEx boxes for shipping laptops

Prayer

• Kieran: thesis, beuracracy and exam date (which might be during Burundi trip), visa
• Susan: changing jobs! (praise - no more getting beat up by troubled youth)
• Liz: just finished work! (praise)
• Sayler: finals through this monday
• Jer: still not sure about insurance, finishing planning
• Finances

Skype Meeting, May 3

Update

• Visas: Matt, Chris, Susan have visas; Jeremie mailing his today; Liz sending hers out soon; Kieran will be getting his in Burundi
  
• Projects: Matt is pming the website (mahoromf.org), internet cafe is moving forward, VBS and English teaching are slowly moving (not urgent, though)
  
• Fund raising: Kieran has 200-300 to go
  

To Do

• Jer: list expenses, intra-team contract
  
• Talk to Skyler - will be in Denver next week
• Malaria/cyproflaxen - get at travel clinic
• Sayler: buy Kieran a collapsible bucket
  

Prayer

• Jer: continued prayer for potential lawsuit
• General preparation for trip - know what we're doing and getting things done
• Protection while in Burundi
• Praise: Matt owns a house now
• Matt: ability to pm website well
• Matt: hurt his knee
• Kieran: thesis - needs lots of prayer, lots and lots; meets w/ prof at 11am on Tuesday morning (2am LA, 3am in CO); very stressed, spiritual stuff going on; needs one week extention to go from rough draft to finished project
• Liz: tavel protection - will be in Texas this week, has 7 days of work left
• Sayler: spiritual attacks, confusion, discouragement, frustration - pray for focus and clarity
• Susan: moving to a new department at work soon (no more getting beat up, gets to work days)