Last week a trip I had abandoned became a reality again, and I’m really happy about it. Since January coworker, Rich, and I have been planning a trip to Central Asia to help our ministry leaders there get a version of EveryStudent.com going. About two months ago I concluded Rich could do the trip by himself and that I needed to focus the majority of my attention on fund raising. But last week I realized that I really did need to go and that my technical background will be necessary to navigate some of the issues related to what we are trying to do there.

Best of all, I was able to schedule a detour to Budapest over the weekend after our meetings! Woo hoo! The only bad part of this is that I can’t take Cathy and the kids. They’re green with envy.

So later this month I’ll be in Muslim, Russian speaking Central Asia for the first time.

One of the cooler things we plan to do is give our staff members and volunteers USB flash drives with computer programs pre-loaded that will allow them to respond to website visitors securely, without compromising their identity or location.

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