肯塔基州：浸信会灾害救援队启用「话匣子」通信车，太阳能充电、卫星网络与网络电话一车齐备
位于美国肯塔基州沃伦县鲍灵格林市（Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky）的南中部浸信会协会（South Central Baptist Association）10月29日为一台名为「话匣子」（Chatterbox）的灾害救援通信车举行启用奉献仪式。当灾害切断电话、短信与电子邮件时，这台车将为灾区居民提供充电、上网与通话服务。
「话匣子」配备太阳能充电站、Starlink卫星互联网、手机信号增强器与网络语音电话（VoIP）系统。协会灾害救援队员罗德·哈奇森（Rod Hutcheson）介绍，即使没有阳光为太阳能板供电，这台车每天也能运行长达八小时；团队两年多前就开始构想这台车，如今的技术条件比当时成熟许多。
协会灾害救援队员汤姆·威修恩（Tom Witthuhn）表示，这台车补上了美南浸信会灾害救援体系中一块尚未有人服务的领域：让与外界失联的受灾居民能给手机充电、上网、与家人取得联系。两人相信，这是美南浸信会灾害救援体系中的第一台同类通信车。
肯塔基浸信会大会灾害救援主任罗恩·克罗（Ron Crow）出席了启用仪式。他说，当居民前来上网或充电时，志愿者也有机会倾听他们的经历，这样的面对面交流本身就是救援的一部分。
这台通信车的经费来自肯塔基州女宣教团契（Kentucky WMU）、伊丽莎·布罗德斯州宣教奉献、鲍灵格林基瓦尼斯俱乐部、南中部浸信会协会、当地教会与个人捐赠。
Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief Dedicates 'Chatterbox,' a Communications Unit With Solar Charging, Satellite Internet and Internet Phones
The South Central Baptist Association (SCBA) in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, dedicated a disaster relief communications unit named 'Chatterbox' on October 29. When a disaster knocks out phone, text and email service, the unit will give survivors a place to charge devices, get online and make calls.
Chatterbox is equipped with solar power charging stations, Starlink satellite internet, a cell phone signal booster and a Voice over IP phone system. SCBA disaster relief team member Rod Hutcheson said the unit can run for up to eight hours a day even if there is no sunlight to power its solar panels, and that the team began dreaming about the unit more than two years ago, when the technology was less capable than it is now.
Fellow team member Tom Witthuhn said the unit serves a niche area of the disaster zone that Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is not currently serving: reconnecting survivors who have been cut off from the outside world so they can charge a phone, get online and reach family. The pair believe Chatterbox is the first of its kind in Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.
Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief Director Ron Crow attended the dedication. He said that when someone comes to get online or charge a phone, volunteers gain an opportunity to listen to their story, and that such one-on-one conversation is itself part of the relief work.
The unit was funded through gifts from Kentucky WMU, the Eliza Broadus State Mission Offering, the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club, the South Central Baptist Association, local churches and individuals.
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图片来源：鲍灵格林市喷泉广场公园（资料图）。经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Fountain Square Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky (file photo). Via Wikimedia Commons.
