We’re home! Our trip to New York with the Migrant Leaders Club
and Underground Writing was a big, fat success!
Here’s a short teaser of the documentary film I was tasked to create.
Thank you:
Your support to my role at Tierra Nueva, to outreach and communications, made this trip possible. Every frame of this film exists because of your generosity and commitment.
These kids are incredible. Every last one of them. It was awesome to hang out with them, to hear their stories, and to see them be goofy tourist-high schoolers.
We stayed at an AirBNB townhouse in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is great!
Back to work at the office, many projects (continue) to develop.
- Coordinating the post-production of this film involves working closely with Janice Blackmore of the Migrant Leaders Club, the 15 students that traveled with us, Matt Malyon of Underground Writing, and Quiara Alegria Hudes who wrote the musical and invited us to attend.
- Tierra Nueva’s Volunteer Appreciation Night is this Monday evening. Our staff has been collaborating closely to plan an evening to celebrate our many metaphorical field workers. (I’m especially excited to be distributing tomato and jalapeno starts that we first planted in January of this year. (The office bathroom is a vibrant grow room; I love it.))
- Our jail ministry continues to grow in number and develop in strategy. Kevin and Danielle, two of our Emerging Leaders, are now regularly visiting the Mount Vernon Community Justice Center as chaplains. Both of them have spent time in addiction and incarceration, now bringing the Gospel back to the jail cells.
- The support raising effort continues. I am informed and encouraged by generous donors all around the world–donors like you! Before New York, I spent a week in the Midwest (Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Sioux Center, Des Moines, Iowa City, Minneapolis again!) to meet with current and potential donors. Loved it.