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Dear Prayer Team,

Two exciting developments are in the making since the last prayer letter.

First of all, the 1 hour-long biblical parenting documentary will be aired in the UK on April 23rd on channel 5. (If you live in UK, check it out because one site said 'next week'). The title of the documentary is "Raised by the Hand of God" and is part of the Hidden Lives series, oftentimes showing things that are not good to watch. We do need prayer for three things.

We have shown the Library a few times in private situations and have received good comments. They think that it is better than it presents itself. They liked seeing that our are children growing up and living out healthy lives in comparison to those in the secular society around us.

Be His Witness

The word that the Lord has given us for doing this documentary was: "The righteous is a guide to his neighbor" (Proverbs 12:26, NASB). We pray that this will happen!

They use a sensational, rather negative trailer, to hook people into watching. We trust that the Lord will significantly help parents to know God has much to say about parenting and that other parents are doing fine following His ways. May God's Spirit draw and build up the people He desires.

Be protected

Pray for the families involved in the series. Just by seeing what people say on their blogs about parenting, it is quite possible that we will face some extremely negative feedback. Parenting is a sensitive issue. People react emotionally rather than consider the presentation and discuss.

Be wise

We have no idea what people might say or ask of us due to this or other showings. Maybe no one will say anything. Or else, we might have people coming and asking for interviews. In any case, we need wisdom to know whether we should talk or not, as well as what to say if we do. Many groups are hostile to God"s ways or anything Christian. We tend to shy away from such situations. We do want what God desires.

Video Podcasting

Secondly, I found a time saver. Since I started Biblical Foundations for Freedom, an onslaught of new technology has allowed me to greatly increase the quality, quantity and distribution of materials.

I just discovered another 'invention' that enables me to record my powerpoint slides along with my voice as I speak. For years I lamented over the great amount of work that would be needed to time a recording and match it with slides. I never got around to doing those things. I would have to do the whole taping again. Fortunately, the quality is good and works on Quicktime or iTunes which are free programs available on both PCs and Macs. It works on with regular web browsers too.

Of course, I have to put in time to learn how it operates and to integrate it into a new kind of webpage that I am not familiar with. RSS feeds are still something I don't quite understand. However, despite the extra work in the beginning, we can speed up our available training for others. I believe this will greatly affect the future of training all around the world.

People can now listen to the training sessions on their computers! Amazingly, if I do not edit, it can be uploaded right after the class. Thanks Profcast.com! Even better, one can immediately stream them down because they are small files compared to movies. If you use iTunes, click on the picture twice and it will blow up to a full screen!