Working | Highlands Team Arrives Soon
Cover page to the PowerPoint I am putting together for the teams briefing
Highlands/FH Rwanda Project
I’ve been working a lot this week! The Highlands team is arriving here in Kigali beginning Saturday morning and I have a few more things to take care of in preparation. I am excited to have them finally arriving. This week will really reveal, at least to some extent, how successful my time hear has been in cultivating the grounds for this project. I have spent most of the week this week in the office, which has been a big change of pace after being in the field for a month.
This week, along with planning out the teams schedule, taking care of logistics (lodging, transport, food etc.), and budgeting the trip, I have also worked on two different tools to help prepare to the team for their time here. One is a PowerPoint that will be used in the briefing of the team prior to our departure to Nygatare and the other is a field guide, with details from all of my meetings as well as goals/objectives for the group. To help mix things up I spent some time working on different covers for the projects and ended up with the two posted here. Playing with pictures and designing them helped to preserve my sanity amidst the presence of nemesis-logistics. Hopefully both of these tools provide to be fruitful for the team.
Cover page to the field guide and project overview I prepared
Film Crew
Another bit of news that I haven’t shared thus far is that PBS is partnering with Food for the Hungry to produce a documentary short on the work FH is doing here in Rwanda. Highlands and this project will be spotlighted in the piece. I have been, to whatever extent I can, assisting a coworker here in making preparations for the film crew as well. I don’t know when the short will air, but it is part of a series called “Heroes of Hope.” You can check out what they’ve done thus far by visiting their website here.
Other
In addition to all of that, things have been really good. Busy, but good. I’m feeling healthy and haven’t had any issues with my stomach since the second hospital visit a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to everyone for their prayers. I do have some more pictures and some interview type conversations I had with some families out in the east that I will try to post soon! I leave you with this quote from Mother Terresa, with everything that’s going on with Food for the Hungry and Love God Love People right now, it resonates with my own thoughts on money:
“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness,
of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the
Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.”
