Internet Evangelism in Romblon Adventist Mission Trip Report

Internet Evangelism in Romblon Adventist Mission Trip Report
Hello friends,
The Romblon Adventist Mission trip was fun for the following reasons:
-free airplane ride. SSD spent 19,790 pesos on tickets for Pastor Jonathan Catolico, SSD Communication director, Sir Pagaduan, and me.
-free parking in SSD, 1 week
-free hotel accomodation, monday to friday
-free vegetarian food paid for by SSD, Romblon Adventist Mission, Pastor Zabala's family, and others
-free touring around the island before the seminars, and after
-free 1 day seminar on newswriting from SSD Communications Director, Pastor Jonathan Catolico
-free 1 day seminar on computer graphics, photoshop, layouting, etc, from Chair of TradigitalFineArts Departmen t of AUP
-opportunity to promote and give away Discoveries08 and GYC08 DVDs
-opportunity to advertise AUP Compsci and Tradigital FineArts, and almost all other courses: Business, Education, Dentistry, Nursing, Theology, Medtech, ECE, CompTech, IT, ETEAP.
-opportunity to do oral-raise-your-hand surveys. 2% have internet at home. 2% have computers at home. 95% have friendster account, 1% have myspace, 0% don't know hi5, 98% don't know they have their own website already (in friendster). 5% check email weekly.
-4,500 pesos given to me for being resource speaker. from SSD. of course it just adds up to God's infinite budget for evangelism. that translates to 562.5 more DVDs for giveaways of either Discoveries08, GYC08, or tagalog video sermons!
-nice ride on new innova to airport, nice ride in new SSD hiace from airport.
-lots of buko
-free big tabletop with my name and role. traditional gift from romblon. no guest leaves romblon without it, they say.
-free plane baggage overloading pay coming back, courtesy of ssd.
-got to know many stories about the missionfield, miracles, deliverances, small group enthusiasm, possibilities, donated schools, churches, pastors styles, wage factors, working attitude, language efficiency, AdventSIM, radio stations, TV stations, other internet efforts
-idea of AdventLinux, to cater to software needs of people who don't want to pirate software. livecd with OO, gimp, scribus, audacity, bibles(kjv,tagalog,etc), sda-fundamental-beliefs, hymnal, great controversy, some discoveries08, extremefaith, mission pilot, egw free books & mp3s, tagalog sermons, church manual, dictionary/thesaurus
-got to use the SM2003 AUP pictures in the laptop, for showing students. i finished 3 lectures in about 2 hours and while .waiting for the certificates to be all printed, i just told them of the courses of in aup, the advantages and other nice things, while showing them the pictures.
-experienced administering aolis remotely over GPRS. editing classtimes and classroom names.
-got to taste "magic fruit"
We're back at aup at about 5pm Jan 31, 2009, we left aup 8am monday jan 26, 2009.