Trial Run Taking Shape

We met with Buddy (the pastor at Adventure Church) today and put together a plan for a trial shoot after an upcoming church service that will allow us to try out our equipment and see exactly how to photograph large numbers people in rapid succession, printing the 8X10's simultaneously.

A couple months ago I asked Richard (another minister on staff at Adventure) about trying out our process at the church an offering the 8X10's to the families for a suggested donation to raise money for the trip. He was really excited about the idea because the church was trying to decide how to do a directory and this would easily provided the motivation for families to stick around after service for the portraits. The idea was a win-win and confirmed again that God was moving behind us, creating momentum for our work.

So today we hammered through what the shoot would look like and how it would run. We will set up two stations to shoot two families at a time. There are between 300 and 325 people at the church on a given Sunday, so the crowd will be perfect practice for the crowds we will experience in Ghana.

Buddy was very impressed with the work we had done in the weeks since our last meeting. This was really encouraging because it is sometimes hard to chart the daily progress we make given that so many of our tasks are on-going and only get checked off our list after several steps, meetings, and phone calls. So it was nice to update him and remind ourselves of everything we have accomplished thus far, and then, to receive his compliment only made it that much nicer.

Next week most of our equipment will arrive. It will be like Christmas! The camera we were ordering is back-ordered so we are trying hard to line up another option that will not cost us $1500. We are not discouraged by this, but feel that God is at work here and is about to do something that will again confirm his provision over our work. We'll let you know how it turns out...