Well I’m back with a tiny little journal entry. I’m still in California, getting antsy to return to Kenya, and working hard to enable that to happen. I’ll catch you up on the developments later.

In the last entry, I mentioned that you were more than welcome to help with the project in whatever way you might want. Some of you since then have asked for suggestions as to what might be the most effective way to do just that. Well, here’s my two cents worth.

For the couple of months before I returned, I was working to produce a DVD for the project.

With Gabe, my godson, who was then in Kenya, at my side a good deal of the time, we edit and reedited and chopped and cut and pasted and inserted and deleted and cursed and prayed and fainted and wept. I brought the nearly completed version back with me and with the generous and invaluable help of Barbara Daly, a videographer in Stockton, put the finishing touches on it…all eleven minutes of it. We left out the chariot race scene so it wouldn’t be mistaken for Ben-Hur, The Sequel. In spite of my shaky film making debut, it manages to some degree to convey the situation, the vision, the plan, and the aching need.

We have made lots of copies, and you can have one if you want. And then you can gather people that you know and love together, show the DVD and give them the opportunity to give to the project. The DVD does most of the work. If you’d like Greg and/or I to be there, you need only ask, and have extra cookies.

This little video tupperware party is one very effective and relatively painless way to be a part of the fundraising effort that is so crucial for the project at this time. The results of small gatherings like this has been amazing. So be the first on your block! And give the kids in Kenya a late Valentine’s present.

If you have any questions at all or want some snack suggestions–don’t hesitate.
My email address is: dwsaunders@gmail.com

See you at the movies,

David

Posted on February 7th, 2007 by david
Filed under: David's Journal