April 25, 2006- Email sent to supervisors, tr workers.
Hello! We met with pastor Moses today because he said he had two people who could possibly help us. (Pastor Moses is one of the local pastors we talked to about finding a story crafter before we left).
We met "Anne" and "Sam". Sam is a believer and attends Pastor Moses’ church. He wants to be involved with some sort of ministry and is currently traveling to different villages to preach there. He speaks English, Hindi and some Kahani and is free to work with us any time. Anne is not a believer. Right now, she is attending sewing classes that are held at Pastor Moses’ church. She lives in a village 5-6 km away (1 hour) but comes every day (Mon-Sat) for classes, which are from 11am-2pm. She speaks Kahani, and Hindi. During our conversation with them, Sam said that Anita’s Kahani was better than his. They also said that they speak the same dialect of Kahani. We kind-of explained what the crafting process will look like. They are both willing to work with us, without pay.
We hope that Sam will act more as a translator and since Anne's Kahani is better, she would take on more of the crafting role.
We have set a time to craft our first story, Creation, on Saturday morning before the sewing class. Pastor Moses offered the use of the church as a meeting place, so we’ll meet there.
We’re planning on asking two other friends to record Genesis 1-2 in Hindi. We will play this for Sam and Anne on Saturday, thus keeping the crafting process as oral as possible.
On Saturday, we’ll see how the crafting session goes and how often they can meet with us.
We also asked Anne today if there was someone else from her village who could come teach us language- possibly while Anne is in her sewing class. She said she would try to think of someone.
We never expected something to happen this quickly. We are both encouraged by meeting Sam and Anne and look forward to Saturday! Thanks again so much for your help and support.
~ Elizabeth and Robin
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