We need your help!
This project is just too big for Viña to carry out on it’s own. We need your help. Consider getting your church involved. There are several ways you can become involved:
Commit financial support
Commit financial support to enable Viña to produce one or more Bible stories of the finger puppet video series, which will be adapted for multiple people groups ready to receive and use this tool. This investment will produce spiritual returns for decades as the video series is repeatedly adapted and reproduced in the languages of the least reached people groups of the Americas.
Commit financial support for the adaptation of anywhere from one to six complete lesson packages into the language of one minority group. The church could send a team down to the language area and present the materials to the indigenous church. Further involvement could be through teams coming and working with indigenous Christians, using the materials at VBS, where your church group could help with activities and games, etc.
Send a team
Send a team to Guatemala and help build the set pieces, costumes and props needed for an episode. Viña averages over 500 man-hours for each episode just on this step. Viña will assist you with logistics and facilitate your work on this trip.
Pray
Pray that God will reveal to you and to the congregation of your church the specific way you can help. Consider initially supporting the production of the video Bible stories, which will be part of the basic corpus of material; and then consider the people group connection to which He is calling your church. Viña will assist you by providing profile information on the people groups of Guatemala and the Americas most in need of this video outreach. This could be the first step in involving your church in a mutually beneficial relationship with indigenous Christians and churches of a minority people group!
The Investment
Each video Bible story and related teaching materials costs approximately $15,000 to produce. This is the investment that will leverage outreach to many people groups in the future by developing the basic product. Any help from funding a complete episode, to the smallest contribution will help move this project forward.
Viña has a production schedule of six complete Finger Puppet Bible story lessons with all the related materials each year, for a yearly budget of $90,000.
The cost for adapting a complete lesson (the video, audio, music and written lesson components) into a minority language is only $2,500 per lesson. All six lessons can be adapted for a total of $15,000.
Further Opportunities
There is so much that a U.S. local church and its people can do to engage an indigenous people group. Many options depend on the unique gifts and talents with which God has endowed the local church body. The church could send a leadership team to visit Viña and develop a ministry plan to match those gifts and talents with the needs and opportunities in the field.
Rationale For Finger Puppet Series PDF