Tag: Lutheran
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Colorado Zip Line
Went on my first zip line at Lutheran Valley Retreat near Divide, Colorado last week while on a shoot with Bethesda Lutheran Communities. The campers were zipping down the mountain, so I needed a shot from their perspective. It’s like a ski lift in wild reverse!
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Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided
This is a preview of a 2015 documentary about a divide in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in the 1970’s. Order a DVD of the full, 42 minute SEMINEX documentary today for $19. Our Indigogo campaign to raise funds for our next documentary, God’s Glory, Neighbor’s Good: The Story of Pietism ended on March 10,…
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John H. Tietjen on Lutheran Identity
While working a new documentary about Concordia Seminary in Exile (later Christ Seminary-Seminex), I ran across this sound bite which I recorded in 2002 for an earlier program about the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. John H. Tietjen (1928 -2004) was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and church leader best known for his…
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Bethesda Lutheran Communities, Boy Family
My friend and colleague from our days together at the ELCA Lutheran Center, Sue Edison-Swift, asked me to help her new employer, Bethesda Lutheran Communities, tell stories about their work. The mission of Bethesda Lutheran Communities is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that share the good news…
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St. Stephen Martyr Lutheran, Canton, Ohio
Where Love Lives, Love Grows is a capital campaign video I produced for St. Stephen Martyr Lutheran Church in Canton, Ohio. St. Stephen is a healthy, growing congregation in the Northeastern Ohio Synod, ELCA. St. Stephen is working with Kairos and Associates on a campus development campaign.
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Building Men for Christ: Lutheran Men in Mission
This is a video I produced for Lutheran Men in Mission. Lutheran Men in Mission builds men’s faith, relationships and ministry through men’s events, the resources they produce and ongoing leadership development. We recorded stories for this video in Chicago and Denver, Colorado.
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Together in Mission 2010
This is a video I produced for the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA for their 2010 Synod Assembly through Kairos and Associates. The family and I (minus Emily who is away at college) toured Florida for a week; Naples to Fort Lauderdale, Port St. Lucie to Clearwater. They played while I recorded stories of mission…
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Faith in Action: Salem Lutheran, Glendale, CA
This is a video I produced as part of a capital campaign to renovate and redesign the church and school campus at Salem Lutheran in Glendale, California. Kairos, a national Christian resource development firm recommended me for the job. During production I stayed at the home of Salem members Bob and Chris Watson. Their daughter…
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Clearing Rubble, Redemption Lutheran, Carrefour, Haiti
Members of Redemption Lutheran Church in Carrefour, Haiti gather to clear rubble from their destroyed church building. The structure collapsed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti. Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
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Sylvia Raula, LWF Haiti
Sylvia Raulo, Country Representative for the Lutheran World Federation Haiti Program reflects on the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.