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A lot of things happen all the time, but unless I write them down I don't see what God is doing in my life. Not that is has anything to do with writing it down itself. It is more the fact that I need to reflect on what was been going on in the recent past to appreciate God's goodness.

I have been praying for someone to come and help me in the graphic department concerning the production of some of the media. A few days ago a young lady from my church has shown her interest to be trained by me. She is originally from England and married a South African, who attends the bible study group I go to. It is not clear, yet, but I would be glad if she would help out at Media Village and catch the big picture of training people from Africa to spread the gospel via mass media.

A couple of weeks ago I started helping out in a youth bible study group from chruch. At first I fouod the young men and women most intimidating. They are a very loud bunch, but actually very cool, too. We meet every Thursday and go through a short bible text. The leader of the group will leave us soon and I am thinking about taking over that leadership. Of course I would not be by myself, but I still have to see if it really is my place at the moment.

Next time more pictures.

School of Video Production

There is life back in Media Village. The Descipleship Training School is over. The course went over a period of six months – three months of lectures and an other three months of outreach in either Zambia or Uganda. The twenty students came back to Media Village for one week of debriefing before they headed back home. Now we are into our next course – the "School of Video Production" and the house is full of life again.

Next to the normal work I do at Media Village I lead a small group. Also I am in charge of the work duties. I assigned every student to do a certain job during 2pm and and 3pm so the house keeps tidy and in shape. I will not be teaching much in this course, because I don't have much knowledge to pass on in the area of video (the next course will be in digital photography and I will be teaching Photoshop there).

It's an exciting time. The twenty students are from all over the place. Zimbabwe, Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Zambia, England, Ireland (in Dublin there is a new Media Village and Blathnaid is here to learn from the way we do things). There is also a girl from Germany.

Please pray that it will be a good time. The students will be pumped with information from mornings to evenings for the next three months and it does not give them much air to breathe. Pray also that their passion to share the gospel with the tool of video with rise in this time.