long time.

too long. wow since i began the world of blogging i don't think i've gone four weeks without posting. everyday for the past two weeks i have the thought, "i should blog today" and somehow i don't. so it's 11:05pm Ghana time and i should be in the bed becuase i'm tired, but it's just about to get crazier around here and i won't have too much time if i don't just carve it out.

so many things have happened this month, hence the reason i haven't updated my blog. if you are an avid margaret blog reader...which i'm SURE you all are :) you'll remember when i first moved here i didn't have any 'work' persay to do in the video side of ministry. which was good. it was a stretching and breaking time for me realizing what we 'do' doesn't define us. fast forward 8 months and i've had four videos to finish in the past two weeks. however, being i've never been so thankful to be busy and i've never saught the Holy Spirit to fill me as i do now. i've really enjoyed this past year of getting more in depth in the production of videos and it's been such a blessing for me to see missionaries watch a piece of their world come together in five minutes. however, that's just it...it's five minutes of highlighting day in and day out life. i'm finding how difficult it is to capture reality in five minutes and not put too much subjective spin on it that i'm merely making a commercial to buy something instead of seeing a truth that one might want to wrestle with and possibly believe and support. I have had an intern working with me for about two months now, Ari. She's really quick and has a heart for videography and learning. It's funny for me to say i have an intern since i'm pounding away at learning Final Cut Pro, but i'm seeing how God lined up my degree in broadcasting even before i really lived my life for him and how those skills He's now glorifying!

The other really exciting tidbit... there is a short term team coming from my home church, The Orchard, this Wednesday. We are developing a realtionship with a couple villages in the North West part of Ghana called Bole and Tinga. Joel, Jackie and Jackson arrive on Wednesday so pray for their travel and their time here. I firmly believe God does a huge work in people's hearts during short term trips and that is transported and transferred in so many ways back in people's home culture. While Jackie, Joel and Jackson are here we're going to do some fun stuff and they're going to get a glimpse into my life and then we're headed up north but I'm praying this will be a stretching/breaking/filling time for all of them!

I've also posted some new pics. One thing I did this month was head up north to get some footage a video I finished for Mary Kay Jackson, one of our missionaries. During this trip I had we'll say....'a really bad tummy'. I had gotten food posioning the Sunday before we left that Wednesday and by Friday we were pulling over in the bush so i could 'go' J Did i really just share that with the whole world?