{"id":84,"date":"2007-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-13T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:07:53","slug":"defective-screens-cause-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2007\/09\/13\/defective-screens-cause-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Defective screens cause delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2007\/09\/297_22768.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2007\/09\/297_22768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Over 10,000 LCD screens shipped to computer companies were defective. This caused a huge backlog in orders. Missionaries are among those having to wait for computers.<\/p>\n<p>For those who serve overseas, this has created a significant problem. Several have already gone to the field without their computer; and more are waiting and praying that their computers will arrive before they are scheduled to fly out.<\/p>\n<p>Having to ship the computers overseas adds a huge cost &#8211; between shipping and customs. And there is the very real danger that the computers will be stolen in transit.<\/p>\n<p>Because Dave orders most of the computers NTM missionaries use, he has to explain about the delay.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray that the computer companies will be able to catch up with their back orders.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that the missionaries will order their computers months in advance so there is a stronger possibility of getting them before they leave for the field.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for Dave to have a gracious spirit as he deals with the computer companies and with the missionaries.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for couriers (other missionaries or visitors) who can hand carry computers to missionaries who have already gone overseas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers for missionaries headed back to the field are on back-order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}