| Khesed News #77 Nov 2008 |
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Page 7 of 8 During the last five months, I have done more travelling and ministry than ever before. It has meant that two printed editions of Khesed News have been cancelled this year, and has delayed work on projects that we now want to complete over the summer months. New Khesed Website We began rebuilding Khesed's website to make it more user-friendly in May, but since then it has been on the back burner. The aim is to able to add articles and photos more often, and include links to other useful sites, with less use of PDF files that take too long to download. A new on-line shop-front will be incorporated, as the old website ordering was not working well.After we return from teaching in Tweed Heads at the end of November, I hope to complete the job. Check it out sometime in December or the New Year. God's Story Down Under Translation and editing of the simple English version of the 80-minute DVD God's Story [from Creation to Revelation] was completed early this year.Some of us have been working together on the narration for this project, and we hope to have the final audio track sent off for adding to the visuals so that a master DVD can be produced early in 2009. We believe God will use this DVD in powerful ways in Australia and other lands, but there are still a number of significant issues needing to be sorted out. New Revival DVD Project: Outback Fire Over the last year or so, a lot of government and media attention has been given to issues among remote indigenous communities, which indicate a serious sense of powerlessness, lack of hope for future quality of life among the people, and deep problems with spiritual and moral standards. Government and welfare organisations are not able to address the deeper issues behind the problems.However, we saw a significant movement among indigenous people in 1979, which began at Elcho Island and spread through Arnhem Land to Warburton Ranges, Central Australia and many other parts of the nation. This brought significant changes in health, employment, education and family and community life. I was involved with that movement among the people, and went back in the 1990s to research and write it up into a book called Fire in the Outback. This has been widely read, but it has not impacted many indigenous Australians who are non-readers. Last year an older Goldfields Aboriginal elder asked me for a CD version of the book, as his eyesight is failing. John is in the middle of narrating the book onto MP3/CD, and we plan on releasing it before Christmas. Cost will be $10 posted to an Australian address. It may be available on-line next year. A number of indigenous leaders have encouraged me to make an updated version of the story from Fire in the Outback on DVD, to encourage the younger generation as well as older indigenous people, to seek a new movement that will go even deeper, to bring change in the very spirit of the nation through its original people. We were greatly encouraged earlier this year when God provided one major sponsor for the project. This made it possible to purchase a new Sony High Definition camcorder and microphones. I have been able to interview people and film places and events in Arnhem Land, Kimberley and Perth for the project during the last 5 months, and we are hoping to get film from TV coverage of events in 1982. If you know of any photos or film that might be relevant, please let us know. This will be my major project in first part of 2009, and i hope it will be completed by Easter 2009. We are praying for additional sponsors to help with additional costs including the production of the DVD. Total costs for equipment, travel and production are expected to total around $15,000. We are also praying for the right people to assist with scriptwriting and editing.
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