Not many pictures today, sorry... the internet is very slow tonight.
Thursday we had a bit of shock and awe as we visited and attempted to work on the tech at another nearby church, Belle Vista. This is another rural church where we planned to do some improvements. Our plan was to install ProPresenter (a presentation program) and try to wire up some audio in their church. We were so excited for work at Belle Vista because when we visited it seemed to be the place with the most to gain from our visit.
We were a little frustrated because none of the computers on site were capable of running the program (which is a low bar) and on the sound board, only 4 of the 16 channels worked! It’s amazing they actually use that board.. also very sad because it’s a poor church and there is no money to buy a new one. This is a church that had 140 children attend our children’s programming earlier in they day... these people deserve something that works.
I felt bad for their worship leader, Oscar, who was so excited for us to help.. but we just were not able to do much. We did jimmy-rig 3 extra inputs for microphones but they need to raise ~ $500 to purchase a new board. Pretty unlikely for such a poor church. Hopefully what we did will last until we visit again in a couple years.
The rest of the day was semi-successful as we succeeded in installing ProPresenter at the higher-tech church in Obligado!
Also, we heard a story about an effort to raise money for a growing school to build on a new piece of property. It’s the only area school that accepts special needs children... they’ve grown so large that they no longer can stay in their current building. They have absolutely no money but are positive that God will provide what they need to build the school.
Joe and I feel strongly that God tonight is asking us to tell this story.. so tomorrow we’ve changed our plans to shoot video on our last work day! Pray for us and Timothy School!