Movie making

It was "lights, camera, action!" yesterday for us. As you can see, that's our son Taylor under the spotlight in the above picture. Trietsch United Methodist Church in Flower Mound offered to help produce a video for our church highlighting the Honduras mission and the House of Hope. They have an awesome media crew and a very professional studio at their church. Several of us that have been to the House of Hope participated in an interview session on camera for the video. It was rather overwhelming at first. The camera was big and the lights bright. And the room was cold! I was shaking, part from the cold, and part from the nerves. We each had about 10 minutes of "conversation" footage. Once we got to talking with the person conducting the interview, the camera and lights seemed to fade away. For me, once I got to sharing, I felt the renewed "high" that I felt when I was there. All of the children's faces were in my minds eye, and my heart ached more than ever for their needs. The video will weave together our footage from the trip in June, still camera shots from other trips taken, and the interview clips from those that have been there. We are tying this all together to promote our Miracle Christmas Offering at our church. "Christmas is not your birthday" is the theme, and we have accepted the challenge that for every dollar we spend on Christmas this year, we will invest that much in the Christmas Offering for the House of Hope. It's a pretty big challenge. But we're excited about it.