In Search of A New Venue: Please Pray...

Well after a little over a month of recording alongside the classes here at Lebone I have been asked by Davar Partners Intl.(The overseeing ministry for the Tswana Bible Project) to locate a new venue for the recordings. In large part it is due to the continued interruptions and distractions that we have been enduring with the classes that run in the rooms next door to the studio. Unfortunately the studio was not designed to be totally sound proof and this has caused us to be greatly hindered in our daily production. While the individual narrators have done well in spite of the interruptions, there have been many days where we could have easily finished significantly more chapters. Moreover we might be getting even less time to record as the school has a number of recording projects of their own that they have informed me may start taking sessions away from us.

All that said I will be looking into other potential venues this weekend and next week, hopefully we will be able to find and secure a new venue by the end of next week. This will allow us to get back to doing two sessions per day Monday-Friday or rather doubling our daily recording schedule from what we have now. The goal is that we would be able to finish no later than end of Oct beginning of November at the latest. This should allow for the mastering process to be completed by the end of the year.

Please be praying for me, that the Lord would direct me to the right place and that I will be able to organize a new venue in a timely fashion. Please pray also for grace for the narrators and listeners that they would be able to persevere to the end that we would at last be able to bring this project to conclusion!


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