Let’s play catch-up
June 29th, 2008 | 
Author: Yes, I deserve to be fined for blog neglect. After all, it is the work I’m doing that brought us to Tanzania! Time to get y’all out of the dark and let you know what’s going on.
I’ll start out by showing you a (not so very attractive) map of the Mbeya area languages with whom we’re working.
There are four current projects on which I’m working. Here they are…
1 – Mark 6:34 on a language specific poster with this as the background:
Read the verse and you’ll see why this photo suits so well. It was the favorite in a survey of my fellow Tanzanian SIL colleagues in the office. It is a shot I took last November on the way back from our first safari in Ruaha National Park.
I’ve kinda hit a standstill with the progress of the poster because the cost to produce a decent number for each language group is going to be substantial. I’m even exploring purchasing them from an online printer in the states and having them shipped over. The quality will be better while the cost will be about the same or less. The only issue we have with that is that we’d prefer to contribute to the Tanzanian economy by doing our business in-country. Please pray for direction on this.
I’ll post about projects 2, 3, & 4 over each of the next three days. I’ve gotta pace myself getting back into this blogging thing!!!
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Thank you for the blog. This is interesting stuff and letting us participate by looking up the verse ourselves and interacting with you is great! Keep up the good work and I look forward to more blogs. Thanks, Dale
Dana is the only person I have ever known who kept blogging daily after the birth of a child (not to mention while adjusting to a whole new life in Africa). That is a tough act to follow.
The project is very interesting. I worked for HP for 33 years until I retired last year. Snapfish is the online photo printing service that they bought. HP/Snapfish is making a special effort to cash in on exactly this sort of print business. There are inkjet technologies and an LEP technology (liquid electrophoretic printing) that are well suited to doing poster size prints. LEP has the added advantage that you can put something unique on each poster (names, dates, whatever you would like to have) at no extra cost. A laser writes on a drum for each print, so they can be unique. LEP was designed in Israel and the ink is made in South Africa. That is about as close to an African source as I can think of. Let me know if you are having trouble finding a good supplier, I may be able to contact some former colleagues.