Getting Ready: The Days Before
"I want to know if you are available to assist me with a small project in Cuba in 1996. Yes, it has to do with computers. I need to know your availability for say one week in early 96. Hope to hear from you."Needless to say, I replied, thinking David was asking me for information about Cuban parishes online, etc.
I had no idea he was about to ask me to go to Cuba! But sure enough, just days later, I was scurrying about Vancouver, waiting in endless lineups in the Passport Office, and checking my innoculations.
The plan, though, was not a hasty one. Drawn up more than a year ago, the Anglican Church of Canada's world mission department had sensed a need in Cuba. It asked for, and received, grants from various organizations to buy computers and pay for travel for some people to set up the network and train local Cuban Anglicans.
There's not much to report in this diary entry; actually, I don't know much about the project at all except for what you've already read on the main Project Cuba page.
I can report, though, that I'm filled with an incredible sense of excitement -- both at the work itself and in being able to bring you the story. I hope you'll come back on the weekend of January 27th, when I hope to have completed a photographic record of our journeys.
This web site is maintained privately. Though not an official organ of the Episcopal Diocese of Cuba, the Anglican Church of Canada, the Church of England, the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., or any church body, it does offer links to official news releases and other documents such as Constitutions and Canons, links to official parish/diocesan pages, and other such documents.