I hope you have enjoyed the holiday season, with family and the Lord. It was so nice to be with my parents, and also meet our neighbors from Puerto Rico. My parents have been down here in Florida for a whole year now!
85 new stories in production
This fall has been busy, with a digital photography class at Daytona State, and writing new radio stories. It is challenging to write a whole story that is about 50 seconds long when it’s read aloud. In the past few months, I’ve recorded about 40 new stories, read by various staff at the home office. Now I have a big pile of editing to do! The other 45 scripts or so have been sent back to the revising stage, because they are too long, need to be re-focused or need to be written more descriptively. =) It is tough, but fun to write a story in one minute that is simple, interesting and impactful.
New Listeners
In November, we mailed about 600 sample CD’s to radio stations and chains. Praise that we have heard back from several that they will be playing the stories. Pray that the stories will touch the hearts of the listeners to get involved with missions on a deeper level. We hope to share our program through itunes as well.
Odds & Ends
In the midst of working on radio stories, I’m also helping a little with our new website with forms and data entry (like videos and creating the NTM@work archive pages). Programmers and designers have put it all together, and are moving most data from the currant site. It’s exciting to see it come together.
We are also finshing a video about training with New Tribes Mission, and hope to record the voiceover this week. A local company is finalizing the video and developing the background music. This will be a tool for people already interested in missions, to see if they want to train with New Tribes.
To Seek God Wholeheartedly…
I’ve been reading the Kings lately, and see that many good kings did not seek the Lord their whole life and turned away to idols or became proud. That gives me reason to stop and think! Only two other kings were “like David.” What about me? What does it look like in a normal week to seek God with my whole heart? As I enter 2011, I trust God will continue to teach me more of Himself.