Many irons in the fire

It's been nearly a month since our last post. The snow is gone, the grass is greening and the flowers are starting to pop up. Last Saturday we went to the indoor swimming pool in the town of Liestal with Ruth, a volunteer at Kilchzimmer. We had a blast, playing in the kiddie pool, swimming in the children's pool, going down the water slide and going outside in the heated pool where there's fountains and whirlpools. Unknown to me, I somehow tore a tendon in my right forearm. It didn't start hurting until Sunday, when I thought it was just muscle pain. By Wednesday, the pain was pretty bad, so we made an appointment with the doctor. Since it's a torn tendon, I'm supposed to be off work for a week. Unfortunately, there's too many irons in the fire right now for me to leave.

One project I've had is for the new program, "Church to Children" (C2C). It seeks to help churches get more involved in the evangelism of children through distributing Meet the King books and starting a Bible correspondence course. I was given the task of designing a logo for C2C. Talk about difficult. After pages of thumbnails and several different ideas, it wasn't going anywhere. It's tough making a logo for a single language. It's another thing to make a logo that looks correct in multiple languages for different cultures. In instances like this, imagery might not work. What kind of church do you use since the architecture of churches vary greatly from country to country. I had to use the typeface "Impact" to match with the other materials in the pack, so instead I stuck with just the words, but I wanted to show movement. Here's the result in four languages. Can you guess what they are?

I'm also swamped with materials for the European Conference such as the conference guide, music slides, nametags and multimedia templates.

The Kilchzimmer Echo is another project, which has turned out to be quite a challenge as my role as designer has been expanded somewhat to editor and co-writer. These new roles are not my forte, so I would really appreciate your prayers.

The largest project by far is the Good News Club® Resource Pack. I'll write more later about this large and important project.

Thanks for praying!