• We returned last week from our mission’s biennial conference in Switzerland. We enjoyed great teaching from speaker Charles Price and his wife Hilary, and times of fellowship with the other Avant missionaries serving in various European fields. Switzerland is a beautiful place, even though it rained just about every other day. The rain and greenery was a welcome change from the dry climate of southern Spain. Tim led a “discussion group” on internet security for one of the sessions; he is really good at explaining technical things!
• On Friday, our first full day back at the office, Tim ran into all sorts of computer problems! (At least the computers waited until he got back before breaking!) All day Friday and through the weekend, he worked on completely reinstalling the network phone system, along with fixing some problems on his own computer. He is also working on finding a way to more efficiently back up the phone system, in the case of another incompatibility issue.
• Tim came across a possible solution for a much-needed networked video storage system, and is now setting up test computers and trying it out. If his tests prove the system workable, it will enable us to set up a server almost equivalent to Apple’s servers, using open source software and non-proprietary hardware. (Translation: it will do the same thing for cheaper, built and programmed by our own IT personnel.)
• Here in the video studio, we’re preparing for another Arabic video shoot. We’ll be finishing shooting several more programs for the Sermon of Jesus series (the one we were working on in May).  The set we built is still in the studio, but will need to be cleaned up and have some of the props put back in to make it ready for shooting.

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