Greetings!

Happy Independence Day to our partners in the U.S! We certainly appreciate freedom this year, having dealt first-hand with the regime in Venezuela over the past months.

First off this week, please lift up our partners in Venezuela today. Despite the government's verbal commitments to allow Mision Padamo to remain in the jungle to serve the Yanomamö, and despite the desire of the Yanomamö themselves to have the missionaries remain, we have heard in the past week that new orders may soon be given to remove Mision Padamo staff from Coshelewateli village. Please pray for peace, for wisdom, and for God's grace on the Yanomamö and the missionaries as they deal once again with these issues.

We are still committed to telling their story and to their participation in as significant a way as possible. However, these developments keep us on our knees, asking the Lord what His plans are for our partnership with the Yanomamö in this film project.

Below, you'll read about our trip last week to Belize. And you'll find some more specific prayer requests.

Thank you for joining with us,

Tom Khazoyan –– Executive Producer, The Enemy God (Yai Wana Naba Laywa) film

[Note: If this is the first time you have received this update, you can read all of our past reports on our web site, www.TheEnemyGod.com under the "News" section.]

In the photo here, Christopher is explaining his thoughts to Matt Castagna (Producer, left) and Larry Smith (Location Manager, right). They are standing in the deeper jungle where workers were clearing out the underbrush to clear an area for the shabano, which will be about 100 feet in diameter.

We are also working on many other logistical details for moving the production to Belize. There is housing and meals to be set up, transportation, construction crew and actors from local villages, and government agreements to settle. Belize is still a developing country so things don't move as predictably as in the U.S. but we are very encouraged by the progress we are making and the relationships we are building.

Our next plans include a trip back down to Punta Gorda in September to begin casting and to look at set construction progress. In the meantime, we are working on the many other pieces of a motion picture that we work on in much less glamorous surroundings: special effects development, equipment purchasing and rentals, crew assignments, post-production planning, and legal arrangments.

? Pray for new relationships and partners in Belize. We need many Keckchi and Maya Indians and their communities to come along side us and the Yanomamö in order to tell this story well.

? Pray for the long-term impact for this project: for the Yanomamö, for other indigenous people groups who still remain untouched by the freedom of the gospel, and for many Christians who will be envisioned and equipped to serve the unreached.