Macbook – check
iPod – check
iPhone – check
Flip Video – check
Canon Powershot – check
Video camera – check
Mic for video camera – check
Hard drive for video – check
Kindle – check
Assorted cables & batteries – check
Tech gear for trip about poverty: $6000
Wrestling the tension and irony: Priceless
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9 responses to “‘Twas the Night Before India”
Praying for all of you. Think of how many children will be sponsored through this…without your gear you couldn’t communicate and those children won’t have a voice. Have fun, be safe.
don’t forget to pack your clothes! praying for ya!
I’m so excited to see how this trip impacts your life and the heart of Cross Point! Travel safely, soak it all in, and bring back stories of life and love!
Godspeed!
Josh DeVine
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It is a wrestling match. Myself, I would be thinking about how much bait I would be providing for the more larcenous and less scrupulous elements of India. While I can get all emotional about the plight of the poor with the best of them, bringing $4000 worth of portable, easily-absconded-with tech into a densely populated nation with oceans of people for whom any one of these peices could probably feed 10 people for a month seems a trifle unwise…
Then again, this is from a guy who got his truck full of my family’s gear for a vacation stolen in Calgary, and came to the conclusion it was because God wanted the theives to hear the Gospel from my Christian music CDs that they had obviously played when I picked it up a month later.
I think I missed my own point.
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I don’t know what half of that stuff is. But have a great time!
Anne, thank you for writing about the tension. keep writing for us who can’t. I feel it almost everyday living in South Africa.
blessings to you and you compadres – praying for a smooth trip, health, and of course the great movement of the Sprirt – may you, your team, and all those near you be blessed in a great way!
Yep. That’s where we live.
i live in that tension too. trying to make a go of working in communications for NGOs – lots of writing stories and taking photographs. always feels ironic when i’m charing up all my camera kit, laptop, iphone, etc, for a trip to a developing country.
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