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Vision for Ministry
Here is my VISION STATEMENT for DigitalMission:
Media Mission:
“To serve front-line Christian missionaries in SE Asia by providing professional media services, thus enabling them to concentrate full energy on their life-changing ministries.”
DigitalMission helps with candid and action photography, formal portraits, video productions, website consulting, brochure and newsletter design, in all of the above!
Ministry Mission:
“To apply and demonstrate God’s Love to individuals and groups that the Spirit leads me to by building relationships and helping with educational, spiritual, and practical needs.”
EXAMPLES:
In addition to the individuals I already help, I am now helping a student DORMITORY for grade-school aged Hmong (a tribal group here) students that is three hours from Chiang Mai in the mountain country. They are from a non-Christian village, but during the week they live in a Christian dorm/home, go to a Thai school just 300 yards away, and get great support and spiritual teaching from Pastor Sanchai, his wife, and their daughter.
BUT THIS FACILITY IS QUITE RUN DOWN! Many windows are boarded up, kitchen/dining is a bamboo hut with a dirt floor, and the 23 kids have NO bed or mat to sleep on! I am looking to do an “Extreme DORM Makeover” and help them! Can you send extra funds for this? Or maybe you can come over and help with some projects!
NEWS FLASH: We have begun! The kids now have mattresses, and the dining hall is looking GREAT! Check out latest pictures, click “HELP the kids’ DORM”!!!
I have also helped, AHOO, 37, who is a winning long distance runner. He lives and works in the mountains and is a new believer, getting stronger every month. He has a profound hearing loss and resulting slurred-speech problems. I helped him go to the gov’t hospital in Chiang Rai to get his one old hearing aid fixed, and then get another, newer one, too! He is also signed up for speech therapy, which he needs badly according to my Thai-speaking friends who have difficulty understanding him.
Ahoo faces persecution in his non-Christian village, so he is waiting a while to actually be baptised… he MIGHT get kicked out of his village for officially and publicly becoming a Christian. He visits me every month or so, especially if there is a running event in the Chiang Mai area! I can’t visit him in rainy season (4×4 truck needed), but now it has become dry season, so I hope to go to his village soon. (Written Nov. 20.)
Also, Supasorn (Sorn), 20, lives with me while attending North Chiang Mai University to study engineering. He had a motorcy crash last December and has had four operations on his femur (upper leg), the last one just this week, 11/20. He is helping me with Thai, and I help him with English. We study Bible together and pray together. We are hoping the new house in Hang Dong can be of some use in MINISTRY, maybe with Univ. students, but that is still to be developed as we just moved in four weeks ago.
I also gave $60 to Rawang pastor Aken here in Chiang Mai to help him toward buying a used motorbike, which he just got last week!
THESE ARE SOME OF THE “SPIRITUAL AND PRACTICAL NEEDS” THAT I WANT TO DO MORE OF TO BLESS PEOPLE regarding the second “vision” of DM, above.
When I first took trips to Thailand (avg. 6-8 weeks) I did photo and video projects for Frontier Labourers for Christ mission group — first in 1990, and then in 2003, ’05, ’07, and ’09. Then in November 2009 I moved here and became their Media Director. I did that for two years and trained locals to do the media work, from planning to shooting to editing. I then left FLC to branch out to do freelance projects, all for free as a Media Missionary, to help other Christian groups and individuals. (And as you can see from Camp 99, I also wanted to do some ‘direct mission’ to help people here and God led me into that, too!) At some point I’ll put photos of the three years I spent helping a very poor dorm for Hmong tribal kids, three hours drive from Chiang Mai. Some of YOU helped with that improvement project and helped sponsor the three camps we did for Hmong and Akha youth.
But this DigitalMission section is all about MEDIA, with three sample videos, a page of portraits for missionaries, some of my favorite portraits of Thai and tribal people, an assortment of still photos I’ve taken in ministry settings, and also some pictures of me being “on the go” around northern Thailand. Any questions? Please contact me at the link below!
Contact me if I can help you with media!
