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Browns in Africa update – October 2010

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Reading emails from us is boring, we know, so we kicked it up a notch and made a video update for you. Please take a (few) minutes to watch this, and please pass on to other missions/Africa minded friends and churches.

In summary, we do have some significant and immediate prayer requests:

  • We have been $450/month short on support for long enough that we have exhausted our work funds and are in danger of not having enough to live on next month. Click here for specifics and to get involved.
  • Tomorrow Andy is heading to Tanzania, to the islands in Lake Victoria. Pray for safe travel and for Lesa and the kids at home.
  • A lot is happening with Lesa and our kids and school: broken arms, field trips, drama production at the end of this month. Click here for specifics.
  • We are actively pursuing a medical project vehicle for Olepishet. Click here to read more about Olepishet and how to get involved.
  • Andy is potentially going to be installed as an elder at our church, International Christian Fellowship.

Lastly, if you haven’t checked out Andy’s latest video, AIM Identity, watch it here!

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Last December, OFM was commissioned by AIM’s international office to produce a video for worldwide use about AIM’s vision to see Christ-centred churches among all african peoples. Up until this point AIM had no video that spoke on an organization-wide, and world-wide basis. OFM had already identified the need for such a piece, and the commission from the international office was all the encouragement we needed to go do it.

The challenge was both broad and comprehensive. To create a video under 5 minutes in length, that could be used cross-culturally in every AIM context (from US to Brazil to Hong Kong and everywhere in between!) and would show AIM’s history, depth, and breadth of mission work, and especially that AIM is all about partnership with the African church.

We started an international brainstorming process in January, involving AIM regional media personnel from around the world. We started writing script treatments in February, by March we were storyboarding. In April we went to Northern Kenya to film the beginning and ending sequences. A few weeks later we went to Rwanda to film Bruce Rossington’s sequence and VO. We spent May and June editing, and pulling footage from the past 3 years of OFM’s archives for the montage sequences.

After taking a month off to attend my sister’s wedding in the US, I hit the deck running with developing the motion sequences throughout the film, then scored it at least 4 different ways before settling in on the current score, then colored it for about a week.

It’s the biggest collaborative effort OFM has ever pulled off, and I was privileged to get to be the producer on this project. May God be glorified in Africa and around the world by what he is doing through AIM and other organizations here in Africa.