Yesterday we made 31 videos to help Indonesians understand how Jesus can make a practical difference in their life. The videos were two to five minutes long and will be posted at hereslife.info/indonesia and other locations.  You can get some idea of what they say by visiting looktojesus.com.

Here is our studio:  the pastor's office in an Arabic church.  I ran the teleprompter (my laptop hooked up to an external 17 inch monitor).  It was a bit tricky knowing when to flip to the next page, but I only make two mistakes all day.  After awhile I got pretty good at following along with what the actor was saying.

Phil was the video expert.  We could not have done this without him.  He took the work lights I bought from the local hardware store and arranged them to give us excellent lighting.    If you look careful you can see all three yellow light cases.

We used a lapel microphone I bought just for doing these shoots -- and Phil's camera. 

Hadi, the Indonesian speaker, did great. He only had two days to become familiar with the script (the person who originally said yes to do the recording pulled out). One of the scripts was particularly difficult and we modified it on my computer just before recording it.

Now we will transfer the files onto DVDs and send to the USA for editing before posting them to our websites.  Right now we are helping almost 1,000 Indonsians a month on the next step of their spiritual journey, and I am looking forward to the impact these videos will have on their lives.  

Bob and Chris spent three weeks encouraging the Lahu in putting faith into action. Here is a video of our time.

We started on the trip knowing that we would speak at the Red Lahu Convention. As the trip progressed we found out about two other conventions that we could speak at. The very first Mekong Region Lahu Youth Consulation was taking place and Lahu from five countries were invited. Only Thailand,Burma and Laos showed up, but it was a time to begin building a network of people who will work together in evangelism, church planting and community development.

The highlight of the trip was working as a family to put on the children's program at the Red Lahu Youth Conference. Imagine being told at 10 pm that you are in charge of three hours of content for the children the next day. We did not have any idea there even WAS a children's program at this conference. We had brought no resources or materials. We did a quick brainstorming session and then began to look around the village to see what we could use. Chris found some firewood, a piece of yellow paper, a dirt clod, a red chair, a paper sack, a bar of soap and a branch with leaves -- all you need to give a "Wordless Book" explanation of the Gospel.

This Easter both Bob and Chris will be speaking at the Red Lahu Convention in Northern Thailand.

Here are the talks we have prepared:

Chris is planning to speak to the women about:

William is an Online Missionary. From his home in Eldoret, Kenya he is having a worldwide impact. William has already helped 178 people this year on the next step of their spiritual journey.He was so committed to one person that he drove six hours so they could meet face to face.

Last year the online missionaries that Bob recruited helped 100,000 people on the next step of their spiritual life . Every day they are answering emails from people around the world. Here are some of the emails they received:

• So good to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. I am not alone because He’s always there to guide me (Jacisse, Philippines).
• I am a Buddhist, but in my life I got only help from Christian people and now I prayed to Christ (Simul, Spain).

Margaret Coote, recently retired Principal of Homebush West Primary School, Sydney, is a firm believer in school chaplaincy. She says...

I believe the school chaplaincy program has been invaluable at Homebush West Public School where the mobility of the population is high and so many members of the school community are new arrivals to Australia. The chaplain has made all new members of the community feel welcome. She has been a wonderful asset in facilitating communication between home and school.

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Ryan and Hailey Mahoney were married on Sept 12, 2009 near Grants Pass, Oregon. Here are photos from that special day.

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Ruth gave this speech at George Fox University in Newburg, Oregon USA today to explain what she did for a leadership project.