Sunday morning we briefly spoke at Capitol City Church of Christ in Dover, DE. They were already quite familiar with Bible Translation and PBT since they are Brian Paris’ home church (in fact, it was through Brian that we first learned about PBT). We are very grateful for their hospitality and support!
Take a look at this video that Adam Shreve (from the PBT media team) put together to be played at this year’s CIY events. Good stuff!
Last Sunday we presented at Dagsboro Church of Christ in the morning, and then Countryside Christian Church (in Cambridge, MD) in the evening. Both presentations went well. Both of the time slots for these presentations were a little shorter than we have had in the past, so we are learning to trim things down, which is good because it helps us focus on what is important.
We used the small screen plea at Countryside to try to convince them to move forward in the auditorim, and just as it did at Ocean View it worked perfectly here also, so we will definitely be using that trick from now on. Having everyone together and close to us really helps us to communicate effectively.
We are the mission this year for the Seaford Christian Church VBS program. Tomorrow night we are going to be speaking briefly for the opening program. Seaford was where we did our first presentation back in May and we are looking forward to catching up with everyone there again.
Sunday night we had the opportunity to give our presentation at the Ocean View Church of Christ. We really appreciated their generosity and support and are looking forward to seeing the great partnerships and relationships that will develop between us! It was a great night.
During the beginning of the service (songs, communion, etc…) everyone was sitting all the way in the back, which is apparently the normal custom there. The first 10 or so rows on both sides of the auditorium were completely empty! I was just going to take my microphone and head towards the back of the auditorium when it was time for me to speak, but thankfully, just before that time the song leader explained to everyone that we inteded to use our own projection screen, which is small, and that they would need to move up so that they could see it.
Apparently this was a good motivation, because the entire group moved all the way to the front and completely filled those 10 empy rows! This lent itself to the intimate and personal atmospere that I feel more comfortable with, so I definitely appreaciated it. I later found out that this was a very special treat, and that they never are able to get everyone to come the front.
Thank you OVCC for giving us the opportunity to express to you our passion for the bibleless people of the world, and thank you for moving to the front of the auditorium!
Sunday night we had the opportunity to do our PD presentation at the Milford Church of Christ. We are very appreciative of them for hosting us. We feel like we established some new relationships as well as strengthened some already existing ones.
This was the first time we used our own screen. It’s a really old Da-Lite screen that my mom bought at a thrift store like 15 years ago. I have no idea why she bought it, but Da-Lite is a great brand, and the screen seemed to work really well for us!
Speaking of old equipment, we also brought along my 10 year old Ghetto Blaster™ for sound for the DVD clip. It’s an old Magnavox CD player – the first one I ever owned and the only one we have. I remember saving up for months to buy it ($98.99!!) If you ignored the hissing and the sharp tone, I guess you could say it worked OK, but it’s definitely not going to cut it for larger venues, so I’m keeping my eye out for some kind of portable speaker/amplifier to connect to the computer for audio.
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