Month: June 2013

Katrina 2013 Final Presentation Video

Was it a dream? Were you really experiencing the presentation? or were you just taking a nap? Or maybe you weren’t able to join us…

Relive the Full Presentation in this video, featuring sharing from team members Craig Kakihara, Heang Chov, and Steve Ogata and a multimedia presentation by Gary Murakami, this presentation reflected on God’s goodness, favor, and blessing on this year’s team and the homeowners we encountered.

The Katrina Gulf Coast Relief
Team for 2013 gave a final presentation to family, friends, and
supporters on June 9, 2013 

By the way, it’s kind of an Easter Egg/ hidden treasure (of sorts), but there’s a segment in the video that Gary made for the presentation that features some worship/singing during the photo/video montage. When listening to it, it sounded like a normal recording, but oddly familiar.

Gary had taken a recording of our team’s worship time (our own singing) and mixed it with an instrumental-track of the same song. This meant matching keys, pitch, and even splicing our voices so it matched the timing of the original professional track. 

I have to applaud Gary’s technical, artistic and creative efforts. I’m sure he would say it is a labor of love, (some would say obsession), but all kidding aside, I’m both impressed and touched by the effort…

Katrina 2013 Final Presentation from SGV Habitat on Vimeo.

Thanks again to Gary for another fantastic video for our presentation

Enjoy!

If you want the direct link… http://vimeo.com/68009249

Katrina 2013 Slideshow from SGV Habitat on Vimeo.

Our Presentation
This weekend, we’re having our Mission presentation at church, of which you’re all welcome. We know we’ll have plenty of video and posts in the next few days for those of you that are unable to attend.

It’s Sunday (June 9th) at 1230 at the church..

Ron
Unfortunately, it’s also the weekend that we lay to rest our friend and brother, Ron Nakamura

A man with a big voice, big laugh and big heart, he is singing with Jesus at this moment. Of the many things in his life, including his marriage to Janis and raising two daughters, Ron also joined our team to work in Pascagoula, MS

After his trip, he continued correspondence with our site supervisors Brad and Denise, stretching the friendship over the years and miles. In fact, when we’ve met up with either of them, Ron’s name would come up in the first few minutes.

Over the life of our mission, we’ve lost two brothers and team members, first our leader from our very first trip, Dennis, and this week, Ron. It was an honor to serve with such good men.

There’s much that has and will be said about Ron, but we want to thank God for allowing him to travel to Mississippi with us and experience His Grace by working and greeting people in Christ’s name.

And we thank God for the opportunity to spend that special week with him, Blessed to be a blessing.

Here’s a post that Ron wrote upon returning from Mississippi
http://sgvhabitat.blogspot.com/2011/06/notes-from-ron-n-blessed-to-be-blessing.html