Hey you want a Bedouins shirt? Me too!

Here’s how it works. During the month of February, you buy 5 shirts (from the thrift store or wherever) and we will send you one back with the sweet awesome Bedouins logo screened on by hand and with love.

Just make sure the shirts are your size and send them to the new Bedouins office at 1710 2nd Ave N #501 Birmingham, AL 35203. Make sure you give us your contact/mailing info too so that we can send you one back to the right place.

Yay for sweet awesome shirts!

Well, Stephen is probably just arriving in Meto. I cannot wait to see what he brings back from this trip…

Things in the office are slightly less exciting. I just finished most of our tax paperwork. Boo. Not even remotely fun.

Next on my list is reorganizing the office (well, really just our filing cabinet). And not to sound like a nerd, but we just got some new binders and I am so excited. Binders are my favorite. And dividers. Dividers make binders even more exciting.

Who says you have to go to Kenya to have fun?

That time has come…time for me to embark on the next Bedouins Journey with another amazing organization.  Just like the other projects, this one will be filled with adventure, excitement and amazing stories that we hope to tell in fresh way.

I leave Sunday afternoon from Atlanta bound for Meto, Kenya…although it will be a solid 46 hours before I even step foot in Meto.

The team that I will be traveling with is 14 strong, the core group being from Selma, AL.  Integrity Worldwide is their name, and they will be doing just about every form of outreach and humanitarian work possible, ministering through all of it.

Plans for this trip are a medical clinic (run by the 2 surgeons and 4 nurses going), dedication a library/compounds whose foundation has been laid, digging 1, maybe 2 wells, delivering 4.5 tons of seed, womens ministry, and English classes.

My job, and Bedouins’ aim for the trip is to document the scope of the work that Integrity is doing there, and to bring back footage and photos to build them a video and multi-media presentation that they will use when speaking, and on their website, as well as to provide them with compelling images of the people, the need and the great work going on in Meto for their website and mailers.

We’ll have our work cut out for us…we’ll be camping in tents with the Maasai people for the better part of the trip, no running water or electricity (I have like 3lbs of batteries!)…just us and Africa.  I can’t wait.

Keep us and the trip in your prayers, and stay tuned here and at my blog…I’ll try to update if/when we have the internet.  For now…I bid you good evening and a wonderful 2 weeks…be blessed!

-Stephen

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So I used to be afraid, and maybe even slightly ashamed, to ask for free stuff. But now I am so not ashamed. It is a new year, and we have big dreams for 2009. However, with big dreams come big needs. In any case, working with a non-profit design firm that hopes to help out at least 15 different causes and organizations this year for free (working with a volunteer staff), we are pretty much guaranteed big needs.

So here I shall post our 2009 wish list. Anyone with the capacity to fill one or more of these needs, please feel free to do so.

1) Man would we love a new iMac for the office. It doesn’t even have to be brand new. Just new enough to be compatible and usable with what we have now.

2) Stephen needs Final Cut Express 4 (for Mac) (video editing software) for both his and Paul’s sakes. It is too much to put on Paul’s plate to have him doing every bit of video editing. This way, at least for the photo and multimedia presentations, Stephen could help out.

3) We just moved into a new office space, and some new furniture sure would be pimpin. We have a couch and loveseat, but could really use a couple of nice armchairs, an end table or two and a long wooden table for the entranceway. (Or you could send money for furniture…it’s totally tax deductible and we could make sure we got stuff that matched what we already have.)

4) Ok. For those of you who may not be able to help with any of the above merch, here is something you can certainly help us out with. Dry erase markers. Yes, you read correctly. We have worn ours out. Ooooh and an eraser would be nice too.

5) Every once in  while we like to record some sweet sounds to go along with our tubular visuals (I can say this because I have nothing to do with their creation). Trying to recreate the sounds of Haiti ourselves over the laptop mic just isn’t cutting it. A portable audio recorder (like this one: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/H4/) would make our lives so much easier.

5) $100,000 so we can hire everybody.     Nuff said.

Ok I think that about sums it up. Here’s a cute pic of me that Stephen took. It’s my “Hey, you wanna help me out with something?” face. I thought it would be appropriate.

I hope everyone has a blessed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Holiday!

-Jessi