Category: Faith Based Production
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Empowering Haiti: Let’s Hear it from the Girls
It’s back to Haiti in August. This time, I’ll be shooting footage for Haitian Artisans for Peace International (HAPI). HAPI was founded in March 2007 as a fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The marketing of the resulting art supports women’s economic development and empowerment. HAPI Executive Director, Valerie Mossman-Celestin and my…
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The Bread Shed
The Bread Shed is a grass roots, faith-based, volunteer organization in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, that feeds the hungry, both spiritually and physically while sharing the love of Jesus Christ. My friend Jim Ward asked me to help this growing organization make a video about their work. Big thanks go out to Briana Freeland and Kevin…
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Alianza Church, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Zac and Julie Stutler work with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The Stutler’s and another husband/wife team, Jeff and Deborah Climie, launched a new congregation in this upscale resort community called Alianza. While recording footage for a project with the Alliance Women Ministries, I was able to put this video…
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Cuban churches of Christ Spread Gospel
In the years following the 1956 Cuban Revolution, a hand full of scattered churches of Christ that began in late 1930?s, dwindled to a few hundred members. Today, revival is spreading across the island.
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Hope for Haiti: Blankets+ in Action
In January 2011, Church World Service asked me to go back to Haiti to record stories about their blanket and food coop programs. It was a wonderful trip full of positive stories and hopeful signs. Here is the video the folks in Elkhart, Indiana put together with the footage we recorded.
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Haiti: One Year After
The first days of 2011 find me returning to Haiti, exactly one year after the January 2010 earthquake that killed a reported 230,000 people and left tens of thousands more hurt and homeless. This trip, I will be working with a communications team from Church World Service. Church World Service works with partners in the…
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Moody Radio Testimonial: Carolyn Keith
Here is a story I recorded and produced for Moody Radio. Carolyn Keith’s life forever changed with the accidental death of her son. Through this tragedy Carolyn has learned what faith and hope are really all about. Moody Radio owns and operates 35 radio stations with a Christian perspective on the news, interactive talk, teaching…
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Raise Your Voice
This is a music video in support of CROP Hunger Walks. Music by singer/songwriter K.C. Clifford. Following the January 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, I recorded footage that Church World Service used in this video. I even noticed a shot that Jim Quattrocki and I recorded in Tanzania more than a decade ago. Great to see…
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Story of the ELCA
With the recent, drastic budget shortfalls and staff reductions at my former employer, the ELCA Churchwide office in Chicago, I found myself reviewing a program we did in 2003 titled: The Story of the ELCA. It is difficult to reconcile the enthusiasim illustrated in this documentary with the recent struggles endured by the Evangelical Lutheran…
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Restored to Serve
This is a video I produced for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lafayette, Indiana. Holy Trinity has been around for more than a century. These days they are focused on the future as they plan and implement renovation of their building.