Lahash Media Retreat held in Portland

Facebook, Twitter, iPads, Smartphones, Blogs... It's becoming a complicated and digitalized world for us living in 2010. Lahash has focused on creating professional and intimate media from day one, and we hope to continue this focus in the future.

To gather our team and discuss the past, present, and future of Lahash's media involvment, this past Saturday we held a media retreat in Portland.
We talked about Discipleship, Relationship, our strategies and core values, and spent time in prayer for the next year.

We had a great turnout, and it's so exciting to be a part of a thoughtful and engaged creative team. We also had Jon Warren share a couple sessions as a guest speaker. Jon is the photo director for World Vision, and gave us tips and stories from his service experiences around the world.

From Lahash Portland Events

Rex Putnam Presentation
Last week Lahash was invited to share at a Social Justice fair at a school in Portland. We focused on HIV/AIDS and showed the video of Eliya Alloyce to the kids.

The kids were challenged and inspired to reach out and care for people around the world who are suffering.


In Other News
Karin Rosain has been living and enjoying life at our partner location in Adjumani, Uganda. She's spending time with the kids and staff at Amazing Grace Children's home. You can follow her blog over at Project 34.8

Erin Weiss is heading out to Dodoma, Tanzania this summer. As part of her prepartion, she is putting on creative dating events to help raise awareness about her trip and the partners in East Africa. Check out her Journey blog and Progressive Dating blogs for more details.

Make sure your check out the Grace & Healing Ministry blog with news and photos from Tanzania. And Dax continues to update the Tenderfeet blog with stories from Kibera and Nairobi.

Dan & Eliya - New Video of the Tanzania partnership

Last year I (Dan Holcomb) stayed overnight with a Tanzanian family in the nation's capital (Dodoma). I was there to learn more about Eliya and his family. Eliya is one of the kids in our sponsorship program there.

Dan & Eliya from Lahash International on Vimeo.

The video above is of my experiences with Eliya and his family. Check out the video, and if you'd like to sponsor one of the kids in Tanzania, send an email to sponsor@lahash.net. The video was edited by Casey Schilperoort.

It was a Month worth for!

Its lunch time and everyone is out for lunch i look my way to get something to eat and fortunately my mama has prepared Ugali (stiffed porridge),cabbage and fried fish.I sit down and relax as i get to enjoy my lunch.

Alot of questions ponders in my mind and i ask my self some questions which for sure i was to reply to by my self i get to enjoy the lunch but many people in some parts especially here in Africa are languishing and dying due to hunger.

In Dodoma,Tanzania i have come to meet face to face with hunger and how people are trying to make end meet-This is why a lot of people are infected with HIV/aids and it is all about "selling their bodies to get to put food on their tables"

I just want to salute each one of you who came up with this unique and extra ordinary idea of rice and beans month for going that extra mile using their time,materials and burning their mid-night oil to ensure that the month was a success.

I am going through a book titled THE SHARK and it has encouraged me so much on how what ordinary people will term as "small thing or idea" how it can be used to change someones life and reach out and touch many lives of children around East Africa.

The book talks of ...."Two roads diverged in the middle of my life, i heard a wise man say i took the road less traveled by And that's made the difference every night and every day"-The rice and beans month could be one of the last option a person can use yet it has reached out,touched and changed a child's life.What each one of you did will make a difference every night and every day of that child since he/she could get to enjoy food and be happy once more!

This is and should be an encouragement to you and me that we can change the world around us by what people can term as vague or small ideas.I am quite sure this cause will reach out to many people and impact the world with the love of Christ Jesus.