pictures, plans and progress!

Before we find ourselves a month down the road and way behind in posting pictures, here are the few that we have taken! You would think as photographers we would have tons by now, but not yet... just wait, soon we will have so many we won't know what to do with them!

Here is one of the beautiful mountain peaks flying into Bolivia... from our incredibly clean window :)
That's right, Eat Fresh, Bolivia!!!

Here we are deciding to be touristy on our walk back to our apartment.

Ok, enough about that. This week we were able to tour the radio station that SIM has here, called Mosij Choski, which ministers to the Quechua people. This is also going to be our first project here, helping raise awareness of the ministries of the station, and also promoting the projects they have. There is so much that we could do for them, in fact they told us today that they would be able to keep us busy the entire time we are here. But, they are not the only ministry that needs help, so we will do as much as we can.

Next week we are hoping to take a trip up into the mountains and document how the Quechua live, and how this radio is impacting their lives, not just mechanically, but socially, spiritually, and health wise. Please pray for no rain on Tuesday for this trip to be possible. We both feel it would be invaluable information and photographs to help tell the whole story.

On a side note, today we were taking a taxi to the radio station when the taxi driver told us "I was told all the beautiful women were in the heavens, what are you two doing here?" and then as we got out, "If you two come out at night, you will make the starts jealous." Oh dear....

When I, (Joni) was in Africa, Tbone came to visit me in Ghana. While she was there we both photographed the SIM Pastors Conference, where the guest speaker was Joe Holmon, from the States. Well since then, Joe, his wife Denise, and their ten children, (yes, ten!) obeyed God's call and moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia! (the world just keeps getting smaller) So we have both been able to reconnect with Joe and look forward to meeting the rest of his clan!

The next few days for us will be filled with more meetings with different ministries and brainstorming how we can effectively help them. One of the challenges is considering the different generations in our audience. Our age group tends to see things only 2 years at a time, when our parents see things in a long term vision. So our challenge is to present the needs in ministering to the Quechua, which may take 6-7 years before they are effective (b/c of language) to a generation that sees only short term. Please pray us as we brainstorm different medias for different generations and needs.