“It’s a tiny Island just north of Australia” is a phrase I’ve said many times in the last couple of months when I told people that I’m going to East Timor. My Sister, my mom, Arlene, and I are joining a delegation to investigate the fair trade coffee industry there and to make a documentary film about the work of the Gardeners of Eden Seed Project.

Civil war and hostile occupation has contributed greatly to East Timor’s state of being one of the world’s poorest nations. In late 1999 the economic infrastructure was mostly destroyed and with the UN’s assistance only recently has been substantially reconstructed. But still today much of the island’s people are looking to international aid for needed food supply, many are not getting it.

So I’ve packed up my camera, we’re going to film the beauty and the poverty, we’ll hopefully document the lack and the hope being sown by the Gardener’s of Eden Seed Project. I’ll bring the footage back in hopes to produce an informative film that will motivate people in the U.S. and elsewhere to send seeds and financial support to these people so they can restore their food supply.

When my daughter, Zion and I say grace before our meal we ask God to help get food to all of the kids in the world who don’t have any. Maybe we can be an a little part of the answer to that prayer.