I Am Second

We did a sermon series partnering with the I Am Second website this fall, and so I shot eight or nine interviews with church members before I left for India this summer. Since I was out of town - and out of hemisphere - the laborious editing process fell to others (some of the interviews took two to three hours). But the day before we showed one, I was asked to do an eleventh-hour re-edit to shorten and streamline one of my favorite interviews, a very friendly former drug addict named Aaron Best. I quite liked the finished product: 

We combined the "I Am Second" movement with a missions and local outreach push we called "We Are Second." We had a large display promoting the movement in our church lobby, and I pulled in my good friend Matt Robison for an interview about a local mission he does called "Mission At The Park." The video lacks all the strum und drang of the other I Am Second videos - but that's what I like about it. 

New Videos Up

I haven't updated the Works page in a while, but I finally found the time to weed out some of the older stuff and put in some more recent work.

There's a link to the "Building a Legacy" video I did with Brian when he left, some of the sermon bumpers that I've done, the most recent Reach video, the most recent UM Army video, highlights from a wedding that I did recently (if you're in to that sort of thing), and one of the I Am Second videos we did. 

Also, this, which I'm not sure if I ever posted or not. It's the Rules video from Edge Camp this year, and it came out fantastic.

Mission: India

Mission: India

Our missions pastor asked me to do a quick edit of the video we shot in India for a board meeting, so I spent a couple days putting this together. I'll get to spend a lot of time on it in January (I hope), so this is just a preview, but this'll give you an idea of what we're gonna be pitching to our church in the coming years. 

The Peace-Child.

The Peace-Child.

Let me tell you a story that has nothing to do with India. At least on face value.

In 1962, Don Richardson took his wife Carol and their newborn baby to New Guinea to work as medical missionaries with a cannibalistic tribe known as the Sawis. There was certainly a great deal of need for them there – the Sawi tribe was constantly suffering from malaria, hepatitis, and outbreaks of dysentery.

Like many missionaries, the Richardsons’ goal was to use medicine as an inroad to spread the gospel, but getting the message out turned out to be more difficult than they could have expected.

"Just... everything."

"Just... everything."

We’re lounging in a swanky hotel restaurant in the Delhi airport, trying to wave down a waiter who can give us the WiFi password. Mike has chased after wireless internet on this trip with a voraciousness that Ishmael might feel a need to document, and his dedication has led us to this exceedingly comfortable room, overlooking the lights of the city, drinking $4 Diet Cokes.