{"id":1000,"date":"2014-02-22T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2014-02-22T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T04:05:21","slug":"electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2014\/02\/22\/electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we began moving into the village we live in nearly 5 years ago, we had talked candidly about the idea of electricity coming our way\u2026way in the future.\u00a0 When we returned to the village this past summer Chuck was out in the bush with a man from here and noticed some concrete markers.\u00a0 He asked what they were and was told that they are for electric poles.\u00a0 We thought wow it might just happen within the next 5 or 10 years.\u00a0 Then early in January we heard of a meeting that happened regarding electricity coming.\u00a0 Again we thought ok maybe within 2-3 years it will come.\u00a0 Often times there is a lot of talk and not much action going on here.\u00a0 But another week later there was another meeting in the village about electricity.\u00a0 Some of the ladies actually came to get Valerie and I to attend it.\u00a0 We went along didn\u2019t understand much as it was in the local trade language.\u00a0 We could follow some of it and were later able to ask questions to the officials from the electric company.\u00a0 When we asked them when the poles would be coming in they couldn\u2019t give an answer.\u00a0 It was all very vague.\u00a0 Again we thought that it would be a lot of talk and little action.\u00a0 Then just 3 days later these were delivered to the village!\u00a0 And there were piles left along the road to the village. \u00a0Amazing to see the poles here already.\u00a0 That was about a month ago.\u00a0 Just this week poles have been moved to the last village on the line.\u00a0 And just today men were in here digging the holes of the poles!\u00a0 The poles are now up and 2 big rolls of wire are in the village waiting to be installed!\u00a0 Just maybe it will get done before the end of dry season!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
This will be a huge blessing and savings for the Easton\u2019s as they build and set up their home in here.\u00a0 If it gets installed sooner rather than later then they will be able to use the electricity to help build their house in the Fall.\u00a0 But even if that doesn\u2019t happen, they will be able to plan to use town electricity to power their home.\u00a0 What a blessing that will be.\u00a0 Electricity in the Philippines is often inconsistent.\u00a0 There are often \u201cbrown out\u2019s\u201d (no power for the day) and times where typhoons cause damage to the lines.\u00a0 But with a back-up system of batteries it will be a wonderful thing to have.<\/div>\n
But we do know that it is going to change the lives of the Ga\u2019dang people.\u00a0 They already have access to generators and use them to power movie players and charge cell phones and flash lights.\u00a0 But we can see it bringing more of the outside world in too.\u00a0 We are praying the karaoke machine doesn\u2019t return! (There was one that was run off a generator a few years back!)<\/div>\n

Please be praying that the progress will continue in this project.<\/p>\n

On a funny note, Chuck asked 2 of the guys today what is\u00a0the first thing they will buy when they get electricity.\u00a0 The first guy said, “a washing machine!”\u00a0 He’s single and doesn’t like washing his clothes by hand.\u00a0 The other guy said, “a robot cook!”\u00a0 He too is single.\u00a0 I think he needs a wife.\u00a0 They sure got a chuckle out of the conversation!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we began moving into the village we live in nearly 5 years ago, we had talked candidly about the idea of electricity coming our way\u2026way in the future.\u00a0 When we returned to the village this past summer Chuck was out in the bush with a man from here and noticed some concrete markers.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}