Starting Again!
“Weaving the Blanket:
Stories of Faith, Sacrifice, Martyrdom and the Emancipation
of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia“
A Reboot, Updated and Streamlined version
Link to Season #1: “500 Years of Violent Evangelism” (10 Episodes)
Conquistadors -Genocide -Most Important Mine in World History -Hacienda form of Indentured Slavery -Early U.S. Methodist Missionaries
First broadcast September – December 2020
Restart: All Episodes available on May 6th, 2023
Edited – Shortened – additonal pics – improved accuracy
Link to Season #2: “Turning Towards the Indigenous” (11 Episodes) (live: 5/13/23)
The Macabre Parade -The Becks -El Redentor Church -Tata Cipriano Titirico -Feliciano -Night of Terror -Murder of Grandpa Torres -Seige of Ancoraimes -Murray Dickson (including one episide on new evidence he was murdered/martyred)
First broadcast April – May 2022
Restart: All Episodes available on May 13th, 2023
Edited – Shortened – additonal pics – improved accuracy
Link to Season #3: “The Aymara Revolution Within the IEMB” (7 Episodes: 5/13)
Historical Context -Felilpe Saucedo -Autonomy -Bishop Mortimer Arias -Manfesto to the Nation -Bolivian Thesis on Wholestic Evangelism -The Aymara ERUPTION -Repercussions of the Aymara Eruption
A new episode will “drop” each Saturday at 6:00pm (subject to change).
7 Episodes released: May 13, 2023 – June 24, 2023
Link to Season #4: “The Making of Saints and Martyrs of the IEMB” (9 Episodes)(Link not ‘live’ until July 1)
Life Stories of key persons who faced death threats, arrest, torture and martyrdom during the 1980 rightwing military coup: Ken & Sarah Corson; Benjamin Peredes; Eugenio Poma & German Crespo. (I hope to add others on my next trip to Bolivia.)
A new episode will “drop” each Saturday at 6:00pm (subject to change).
9 Episodes released: July 1, 2023 – August 26, 2023
Link to Season #5: “July 17th, 1980” (7 Episodes)(Link not ‘live’ until Sept. 2, 2023)
Midnight attack by neo-Nazis on an American pastor in Sapecho, German Crespo tortured but saved by his calculator, Eugenio Poma manages to escape, an amazing communion of forgiveness in prison, and more.
A new episode will “drop” each Saturday at 6:00pm (subject to change).
7 Episodes released: Sept 2, 2023 – Oct. 21, 2023
Link to Season #6: “Where Are They Now?” (~7 Episodes)(Link not ‘live’ until Oct. 28, 2023)
Midnight attack by neo-Nazis on an American pastor in Sapecho, German Crespo tortured but saved by his calculator, Eugenio Poma manages to escape, an amazing communion of forgiveness in prison, and more.
A new episode will “drop” each Saturday at 6:00pm (subject to change).
~7 Episodes released: Oct. 28, 2023 – Dec. 9, 2023