Richard K. Rowland

Nine days till Mission Sunday 2009. This year’s theme is “Light The Fire In My Heart Again!” Will we have the presentation ready? 2 of 6 videos done. David Lusk is doing the Ghana Video. Which leaves me 3 videos to go. Will have the Guyana video done soon. Costa Rica will get finished next week. And I will be making a Year-in-review slideshow video to the theme song “Light the Fire”.

On Sunday, November 2, 2008, Mesa Church of Christ had their annual Mission Sunday, where they collect funds for mission work planned for the next year. During the service, the congregation gets to watch a video of the past year’s mission trips and reports on the mission works. We have had several great themes since I’ve been involved in the creation and planning of Mission Sunday (“The Touch of Jesus”, “The Whole World in His Hands”, “Everybody Needs Jesus”, “The Time Has Come”). The theme of this year’s Mission Sunday was “Shout To The Lord” For the past 5 years, I have put those videos together. Now we are making a DVD of the Mission Videos to insert into the “New Member Packets”. I have been working in iDVD, and have constantly had problems with the video. This weekend I’ll be making a Raw DVD with just the video, no menus or slideshows. Hopefully next year will be better because we will be using Final Cut Pro for the video editing and DVD Studio Pro to make the DVD. Next Year’s Mission Sunday Theme is: “Light the Fire”.