I’m sorry, I haven’t the foggiest. But, in fog is how the story process was starting for Liz Ortiz. Liz’s thoughts were clouded by a thick fog early in capturing her story as a workshop participant in the Storytellers Abroad Missions Multimedia Workshop in Bucharest, Romania.

Many things were contributing to the fog.

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I could tell Liz’s questions during her interview with the subject that she was stuck. The subject didn’t answer the question the way she was anticipating, and it appeared as if the subject didn’t answer the question.

After a few times, Liz just moved on. Liz’s question assumed that her subject, Nicolette, understood how a story about her could help not just her but bring more workers and resources to satisfy all of Romania.

Liz was learning to move beyond her preconceived ideas of what she thought the story would be and understanding to help explore the subject through observation and questions.

The missionaries are working to help the Romanians think about more than just their church. For example, Liz grew up as a Baptist and assumed that all Christians believe in evangelizing worldwide. However, this is not how most Romanians think about their faith.

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So due to this, Nicolette never discussed the need to evangelize other communities or Romania. Instead, she saw she could use more workers for her classes at her church.

The missing part of Nicolette’s story was why the audience should care and how they could get involved. Liz initially produced the package to help a missionary raise awareness to the audience and ask them for support for children’s ministry in Romania.

After talking it through with Liz, she decided to add the missionaries to the package to help complete the storyline. Watch Liz’s first package that she did all by herself on Romania Discipleship.

Liz also had some other fun experiences while in Romania. One of them was getting licked by this cow walking down the street in the village of Herăști, Giurgiu, Romania.

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Liz Ortiz just graduated from Liberty University and is doing an internship with ABWE this year in addition to the workshop. Maybe you are in a similar position, just graduated this coming year you are a Junior or Senior in a communication program.

If you do not have a multimedia package you produced solely by yourself in your portfolio, then you might be the perfect candidate for a workshop like this. If you are interested, then send me an email so I can put you on the list for the announcement of next year’s workshops that I am doing. Here is my email address [email protected].