Thursday, June 16, 2011

Sacrifice and Sharing, A Handwritten Blog

  Two Riverboat Backpacker teams are serving among the Waray-Waray people, literally meaning the "absolutely nothings."  They eat, sleep, and live with the villagers among whom they minister, and as a result, they are likewise isolated from modern comforts such as cell phone reception, constant electricity, washing machines, running water, beds, and an internet connection.
  So we've invented handwritten blogs, which are scribbled on pieces of paper in the middle of the jungle, handed to their field supervisor, hand-carried onto a boat headed to town, driven four hours through the mountains to the city, and uploaded for the world to see.  And that's how the riverboat teams do it!