Ministry in Need of Equipment

August 06, 2004

Category: Mission Trips

As some of you know, we are going to Guatemala this month to train some of the staff of Liderazgo Juvenil in computer design programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. This ministry is seeing some amazing things happen in the way of developing curriculum, videos, and other materials that are used to help youth grow in their expertise in media. Youth leaders are grabbing up currriculum from this ministry left and right because there is so little youth curriculum in the Spanish language.

I have talked to Joel Van Dyke and Howard Andruejol from the ministry enough to know where they are short or limping along in the area of equipment and software to be able to do their work well. Recently, their video camera died and they have to borrow a personal one from one of the missionaries. They have one Macintosh computer and that in itself is not equipped to do video editing well.

Would you be able to help give to this ministry? We would love to bring some much needed equipment down with us from the following list which they provided. Can you help in any way?

Leadership Training

ultraportable projector: brightness 2500 lumens or more

Multimedia Studio—Video

512 MB of RAM (one 512 MB Dimm or two 256 MB Dimms) *
external hard drive, USB, 120 MB (around $200) *
2 NP-F550 batteries, for our video camera *
video camera, Sony DCR-TRV900 NTSC *
Digital Juice animated backgrounds (video edition software for Mac)
Final Cut IV (video edition software for Mac)
USB thumb drive, 256 MB
lapel microphone for interviews
video switch and monitors
analog to digital cable converter with software for the Mac
TV output card (Mac or PC)

Multimedia Studio—Audio

sweepers and sound effects *
DVD-CD duplicator and color printer (like the Elite 2 DVD+R version from Disc Makers, $4,990) *
2 studio headphones (like the Sony MDR-V150 or MDR-V600) *
PowerPrint thermal DVD-CD printer (from Disc Makers, $2,990)
studio microphone (like the Shure KSM27)
digital voice recorder
wireless lapel microphones for live radio programs
ambient microphone for live radio programs and training conferences
portable CD player
backgound instrumental music or loops

Items with * are highest priority.

Thanks! I’d love to hear from you! -Paul

Posted by pablohart on August 06, 2004 04:48 PM