VIDEO.

So I'm here partly with the intent to make a video about our Juarez experience. It has been an awesome time and I've got to shoot in many different arena's. If my mom reads this she needs to know I was being very careful and was completely safe the whole time.

Favorites have been... Hanging out a bus door to put the camera next to the front wheels of a bus (actually a very cool shot,) riding in the back of a truck with a 8 other people standing up (because that is what they do in Mexico,) and passing Mexican soldiers riding very similarly to us, only in a bigger truck, and with guns instead of cameras (contrary to our request's Dale refused to put his camera down. He's got about 1,000,000 pictures now.)

Today we climbed a mountain, which was not super easy to do with a camera and tripod, running on rugged terrain to find good shots.

But the hardest part is shooting at the home. The kids will do everything they can to get a look through the viewfinder. It is very cool to them. And I have been very concerned a couple of times about the potential for someone dropping it, making me drop it, or the fun game of "I'll grab your camera, run, and you can catch me."

Also today, while I was walking around shooting footage of "the area" I started talking to a guy in terrible Spanish. I had noticed him earlier in the day hammering through a huge pile of concrete, and dirt (located behind the home, next to a regular "dump".) I asked him what he was doing and he told me/motioned/signed that he goes through the concrete pieces, breaks them apart and takes any rebar that he finds within the pieces and uses them in building his home. Talk about a culture shock. I was truly stunned.

All this being said. Tonight I did our first round of on-camera interviews and talked individually with about half of the members of our team. One of the priveleges of being a cameraman is hearing peoples stories. And it's hard to explain how moving it is to hear people talk so passionately about this trip, and the things that are happening this week here in Juarez. What an awesome testimony to God's will. I feel very honored to be part of this team and am extremely proud of the work everyone has done within it. But it is very clear, that it is only God working through us.

I hope the kids feel half the love from us as we feel from them.

Signed: Travis.

p.s. I have been apprehended for my posts...