Once again I have to apologize for not keeping you fine hard working people informed about my adventures in Switzerland. There are reasons (or excuses) for this, but I'll get to those in a minute. Also if you've tried to email me and haven't been able to get through; that is my fault. Apparently you have to log in every 120 days or your account is deleted, who knew. In anycase I fixed the problem and info@stevenvredenburgh.com is now working again.

The last time I updated I was talking about my trip to Ukraine and some of the projects I was working on while I was there. It is all a bit of a blur right now, but the week I got back from Kiev I spent a majority of my time putting together a video based on the interviews I taped regarding the rehab centers. This was a particularly difficult task since all of the interviews were in Russian and I now know 5 phrases in Russian (ask me some time, I might still remember them). This meant that we had to have the videos translated, which I knew going into this, but the guy at our office who speaks Russian was on vacation and wouldn't be back until the day the video was due.

Frantically we got on the phone with one of the Missionaries in Ukraine and arranged to have his son translate them for us. After several days of technical difficulties he was able to translate the project for us and I was able to finish the video and turn it in at the last minute. If you attend a Nazarene Church ask your NMI president to show the videos to you. If you don't go to a Nazarene Church, one of the videos is on YouTube here. The other I'll post when I get permission from the boss.

This week has been simultaneously less eventful and busier than it has been for a while. As far as office work goes I have had very little to do. All our big projects for this quarter are done and we have yet to start talking about what we'll be doing next. On the other hand all three of the people in communications department have been in the process of moving.

For reasons I'm still unclear of I had to move out of my apartment so that the regions new finance director could move in. I wanted to stay on campus and Simone and Amy were happy to move off campus so they both found rooms elsewhere and I moved into their old place. The last few days have been spent climbing many many stairs, packing boxes, and cleaning. The good news is that all my things are in my new place and most of Simone and Amy's is out. I just have to find a place to put everything.

I would show you pictures, but somewhere before I got to Kiev my camera decided it had had a long and fulfilling life and it was time to go home to be with Ca'non the great protector who watches over digital cameras with his 3 million mm telephoto lens from heaven. It broke. I have decided that this is really a blessing in disguise as it provides me with an excuse to invest in a decent SLR camera. Someday, when I have money.

One last thing. On the third floor of the communications center is in the process of being turned into a TV studio. There has already been a lot of work put into it, but we could really use some help finnishing it up. If you attend a church that is looking for a Work and Whitness project, or know of a church looking for a Work and Whitness project we'd love to have you.