About the Fiji Suva Mission Alumni Website
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Publishing your name and other information on a web page such as the FSM directory entails certain privacy risks, since it becomes available to anyone with internet access. Beyond those obvious risks, I promise that I will not sell or give the mailing list to anyone for anything other than official alumni business - announcing mission reunions, etc. I also take reasonable steps to protect your information from automated "harvester" programs which scan the web searching for email addresses. Of course, this doesn't prevent someone from taking the information manually and spamming our list. For this reason, I post the copyright notice on the directory listing. The directory is for the non-commercial use of our alumni only.
I have just taken over as the web page editor and any suggestions on appropriate links, original ideas or people to contact for these items would be greatly appreciated. I plan to make this web page as informative and exciting as possible, in order to do so I will need some input, please feel free to contact me at any time. Also, as the Fiji Suva Mission covers several different island nations, any suggestions for inclusion of these islands in special way or links to separate sites would be considered.
This site is a member site of mission.net, and its sister site LDSMissions.net.
Mission.net, founded in 1996, is an association of
volunteers who maintain alumni web sites for nearly every mission of the church.
In addition to the web sites themselves, there are two web servers that offer
free hosting to mission alumni sites. There are several individuals who
volunteer their time and talents to maintain these servers. We are embarking on
a project to upgrade the physical server, re-design mission.net and incorporate
some wonderful new features. All this stuff costs money. If you enjoy the alumni
database and other features provided without commercialism of any kind by the
FSM Alumni web site and mission.net, please consider contributing. If you are
able to comfortably do so, even as little as $5 or so would be helpful. Please
send all donations to: Mission.net c/o Chris Hardy P.O. Box 2053 Cheyenne, WY
82003-2053 USA Make all checks out to Mission.net. There is a bank account for
mission.net.
Note: Recently, there have appeared a number of mission.net "knock-off's",
or other sites that are copying, and in some case stealing the work of mission.net
and LDSMissions.net to support commercial ventures.
It is my opinion and the strong consensus of the mission.net
community that these sites are counterproductive. There is plenty of opportunity to
add value to what we do, but trying to create additional databases of RM alumni
will result in confusion and fragmentation, when our purpose should be to unify.
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This was when I visited in '97 (in Nadi). To see the golden arches in a country that a few short years ago a hamburger was a fried egg between two slices of bread was quite amusing. Kere na Big Mac!! I saw a few Elders here too! |
Hi, my name is Quinn Risdon, and I am the host of the Fiji Suva Mission Alumni web page.
Steve Welling (the originator of the web page) was gracious enough to pass the reins to another Fiji RM and
let me steer for a while. I served in Fiji from 1990 - 1992 and was privileged
to spend some time in the office, but most of my time in places like
Rakiraki, Nausori, Nasinu, Lautoka and Taveuni. I served under President and Sister Goble for a short month then
President Clyde Harper and his wife Vonda for the remainder of my
time there. I have been back since I left in '92, and found that
although things have changed quite a bit, things in Fiji never really
change too much.
I love Fiji and there are still many times I find myself thinking about the people and the island I love...Isa lei Fiji! |
