Christmas Computers!

Amano Christian School is dependent on many sources of supply for the wide range of books and equipment a modern school needs. Some things have to be purchased but the kindness and generosity of people in different parts of the world has supported the work here. It would take too long to list all the many things that have been sent to us that are in daily use and are greatly appreciated by students and staff.
Among the donated items have been computers, printers and various other accessories. Without them the administration of the school and the place of computers in the education of the students the Lord has sent to us would have been greatly diminished. However, computers are subject more than most items to the fact of built-in obsolescence and the reality is that sometimes the machines available for education and administration have been less than ideal.
Earlier in the year a very generous gift was received for the work at Amano that has allowed us to make the school’s first-ever purchase of new computers. They were ordered in August from Novatech in the UK (www.novatech.co.uk) who were very helpful in many ways, not least in giving a useful discount! Shipping the pallet of twenty-two computers and LCD screens took until December, but the Lord’s timing was evident in that their arrival was exactly right for them to be installed over the Christmas break.
The new computers will be used mainly in the computer laboratory for use by all the school. Seven will be used specifically by the Sixth Form students who have a special need for them in their course work.
Our picture shows the very first of the new computers up and running. Those who are really interested in technical details will notice that the computer is not running Microsoft Windows. We are planning to use Ubuntu Linux as our Operating System where possible.
Maybe your eyes glazed over at the mention of Operating Systems. Possibly you are not really keen on computers at all! Don’t let that feeling close your eyes to the fact that these new machines are very much the provision of our gracious Lord who watches over us in every way. We never forget our main aim of pointing the students in our care to the Lord Jesus Christ as their only hope and always our main concern is their eternal destiny over and above their possible careers. That approach is quite biblical - the Scripture tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God and that then everything else we need will be added. The arrival of our first new computers is evidence yet again that the Lord always keeps his Word.
Please continue to remember all the aspects of Amano in prayer and, when you are able, in your giving.