Politics at Grace

Last Sunday was very interesting. Pastor Kaya took me over to Grace FM, the local Christian Radio station that e3 is involved with. We were there to look at the power system they have to run the station because Seed Effect’s biggest hurdle right now is getting a working power system implemented. Our solar only gets us a few hours each day and we have to run an expensive gas generator the rest of the time.

But the power setup was not the cool part of our trip to Grace FM. Kaya and Steven got into a serious convo about Southern Sudan politics [Steven is the station manager who interviewed me on the radio in November]. Given that the South will probably secede in about a year and war is looming, a political discussion carries a little more weight here. Neither Kaya or Steven seem to be super political, but they were just concerned that the officials running for election, the governor of the province I think, would actually make an appearance in town. They even talked about how Steven would love to host a forum with the candidates on Grace FM and they’d love to do an in person event if only there was a suitable venue.