Ethan shows off his pro wrestling skills.
At least he didn’t hit me with a folding metal chair.
From the top rope!
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Christmas Concerts
Tis the season!
For the first time all three kids were involved in the church’s Christmas concert. Thespian Ethan always wants to be up front with the other kids, so this was his chance. He did very well, trying to do all the actions. Adelaine was a bit shy..
Waiting for their turn.
Nice hat, buddy.
Ellie was also asked to help with the play. She got to play a kid belonging to a poor family.
Reading in bed
Adelaine takes a stack of books with her for her afternoon rest. She usually doesn’t nap, but she does go for a rest. The other day I heard Ethan go in her room after he woke up from his nap. I heard the two of them in there talking so I took a peek, and this is what I saw.
Ministry Update :: December 16, 2011
As the year comes to a close, we wanted to share with you a few stories we’ve heard over the past year. We hope your hearts will be encouraged as ours have been as we hear of those who are coming to a clear understanding of God’s Word for themselves.
The first couple stories we want to share with you take place overseas:
Belarus, using our children’s book, “The Lamb“:
“I am back from Belarus. “The Lamb” was amazing!!! We used it with about 100 Russian-speaking Belarusians ages 5-18 and they loved it!! God was so amazing during our trip and so many children finally understand what Jesus did for them and received the gift of salvation that God intends for His children.”
Thailand, using “By This Name“:
“Hi, I am currently working [with] a ministry to women in prostitution… a friend of mine referred me to “By This Name.” It is perfect for what I need–concise, clear, simple, and fitted for this culture–exactly what I want… except that it’s in English! I have two 19-year-old girls right now who have been requesting a Bible study… It’s a WIDE open opportunity and I want to make use of it… but the time also seems so short. So I thought I’d be audacious enough to ask you if there’s ANY way possible that I could have the completed chapters of the book so I could at least begin studying with them?”
[Happily, we were able to send her a full-draft edition of the Thai “By This Name.”]
Germany, using “The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus“:
“A young man from Germany was given a German copy of “The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus.” The book had such an impact on his life, he went home to Germany and invited some unsaved friends over for a weekly study. Twelve are now believers!”
Ministry Update :: November 29, 2011
Being equipped with the right tools is very important to us here at GoodSeed. After all, we are making evangelism and discipleship tools to equip people to reach others for Christ. We do our best to make these tools high quality, be it the quality of the paper or binding of a book or the production value of a video. We do this so that they will last and not be rejected out-of-hand as cheap junk by someone investigating Christianity. I have personally seen a number of videos that have good content, but you have to be really interested to bear watching it because it is so poorly done.
A couple weeks ago we started video production for the By This Name interactive book. The first day was really just testing our ideas and equipment.
We did a morning of filming and then I started to edit it together to see how it was working. After reviewing it, we decided to purchase a shotgun mic just to test and determine if it provided better sound than our (really good) Lavalier mic. It is a big investment, but if we didn’t like the new mic we could always send it back. Here are the results of our testing:
After doing these comparison tests we decided to go with the shotgun mic as it seems to provide clearer audio. This will mean more work for us as one of our crew members must now become a boom mic operator (Steve’s arms will be tired!), but we think it will give us clearer audio for the rest of of the project.
Now that we are equipped with the right tools, we are diving back into our production schedule and are going to be doing more shooting this week. Please pray for our crew as we set aside our regular jobs and pick up cameras, slates, mics and other equipment.