Oh boy!!!

When we first arrived, we were shown a video they had done with pictures from the ministry and video of the church dedication.  I was told one of the projects I would be working on during my time here was to write up an English version of the narration for the promotional DVD.  Today was the day we went to Vijayawada to record and finalize the DVD with me narrating!!! 

This weekend we had a gentleman from Germany visiting for the first time and so our first stop was dropping him off at a church in the city.  He is friends with some of the people that had come from Germany a few weeks ago, but was in India working with other pastors.  He wanted to meet Prabhudas and check out New Hope Ministries while he was so close and was only here for the weekend.  I really enjoyed meeting him and it was nice to have English preaching in church again yesterday. 

This picture is of the street outside the church where we dropped him off.  I had never been to this area of town before.  The road was so narrow and the community went up the hillside from the road so there were a lot of steep stairways leading up to homes. 

The next stop was at a photographer's studio.  Prabhudas was needing some updated pictures for the events he is a part of.  In India, the speakers' pictures are posted on all the banners and flyers used to advertise special events and he'd been using the same picture for a long time.  It was fun to watch and the pictures turned out really good.  At the end, they insisted I sit for a couple of shots, but I'd put my own camera away already so don't have any pictures of me.

Before lunch, we went to this little office to record the narration for the promotional DVD.  They kept telling me to talk faster and if I paused too long they deleted the break so it is a very fast paced video.  They told me to do little sections at a time which was a good thing since my throat was sore and I needed the frequent breaks to drink a little water.  But it went much more smoothly than I had thought and we were off to lunch before I knew it!  Not something I would have expected to be doing when I first planned to stay in India, but I guess that's just how it goes on the mission field!