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The 10/40 Window

The 10/40 Window is a term used to refer to the rectangular area of the world from 10 degrees to 40 degrees latitude, with the world's…

There is a story war. Call it a competition if you will. In our message-rich and market-driven world we are saturated with story lines that call for our embrace.  We all live from one, or at most two grand narratives. Most of us would be hard-pressed to express or explain what that story is. It is intuitive. Somehow an idea has captured us and we live out of that story to the best of our ability.

The story we choose determines everything. Our vision, values, relationships, and…

Here is a very inspiring video biography of an outstanding Christian college basketball coach John Wooden and the teaching tool he used to instill character development in his athletes. 

Video biography

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Pyramid of Success…

Clyde,

As I read through your March 13 newsletter, I was struck again by your ministry title – Visual Story Network – and the world of the Deaf.  To them, it’s all visual.  While “interactive” methods ask and offer a lot for their world, literal visual Bible storying (based on Chronological Bible Storying) is having an immense one-on-one impact as Deaf storytellers(read: evangelists/church-planters) are going out into the mainstream Deaf public with the sign…

I attended my first Q Ideas conference (Los Angeles, 4/15-4/17).  Great venue!  Loved the breadth of ideas and inspiring stories.  

Great People Encounters: Ken Fong, Aaron Thomson, Charmaine Lillestrand, Scott Shuford, Erik…

Thought I'd re-post a blog I wrote for the World Vision site.

http://blog.worldvision.org/stories/rwandan-genocide-anniversary-a-thursday-at-the-pool-in-kigali/

March 31, 2013

Dear Friends

On this Easter Sunday we are in the process of preparing for my trip to India tomorrow (on April Fools Day - SMILE!)

I wanted to ask you to put my schedule in your Bible where you can look and pray for specific items:

April 1-2 – Depart Albany 1:50pm and arrive in Chennai at midnight on the 2^nd. PRAY for no problems with the delicate equipment I am taking in baggage and for no…

I read books and websites.

I have been doing this for decades.

I desire to learn and understand.

I do my best to pay attention.

Yet most of what I have read is forgotten soon after that.

I must have retained some.

When I read a book again that I marked up I recall parts.

But most is fuzzy or gone from my memory.

How can this inform me as a writer?

I spend much time editing while making many…

Every story that gets filmed has one or more producers who bring the story to a screen.  Ralph Winter has produced movies that have grossed $2.4 billion dollars worldwide.  In this webinar Ralph reviews the producer's job description and gives his insights on the role of a successful producer in part 3 of our…

I will be teaching a Two Week Video Production Workshop April 8-20th in Chennai and would ask that you forward this information to those who might be interested in attending. The registration fee is only Rs 5,000 (about 72 Euros or $92.00). A student would have to pay for his food and lodging at any of the low cost venues nearby.



In this two week period I will cover:

• Scriptwriting and story…

AS I'VE WRITTEN elsewhere, there is a HUGE difference between mere fleeting "tales" and actual enduring "stories." Yet far too many writers, producers and even released films end up demonstrating a frustrating ignorance (or careless nonchalance) toward this difference — with much money and talent wasted on passing projects almost certain to be only "here…

Theme: By failing to keep at least one law we are guilty of all.

The videos will show that people can never keep the laws of God and earn righteousness by themselves, whatever energy, passion, work they apply. "… For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts of lust,…

 A BIG thanks to our presenter David Nixon. It was so inspiring to hear all that God had done on David's movies in order to make them as successful as they have become.  We had a VSN record with 23 people listening and participating within this webinar.

 Here are the links to the recorded webinar (57 minutes).

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Hello Dear all my friends .

How are you ?

I would like to share you about my new Media projects.

New projects –

1) "God's Creation"  in this project you can watch Flowers, Birds flying, Rivers, Animals, (Tiger) Waterfalls, Lakes, Oceans/beaches, Water Ripples, Sunrises/sunsets, Moon, Plants- Trees, leaves, Clouds, Mountains, Etc .. Natural things.

I did shoot all HDV – 1920- 1080 i,  videos in my beautiful country INDIA, God loves India, blessed…

Thank you for visiting this blog post. Here after is a plan for setting up a gospel multimedia exhibition on June 2013, in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. I would appreciate your comments and support in any way. Blessings!

THE 10 COMMANDEMENTS MULTIMEDIA EXIBITION

The…

Veteran media-maker and VSN member Tom Nash already has up some terrific video at this site (especially "Script Success Factors 2 – Identification" and "Script Success Factors 4 - Conflict…

Shirin and I have been at Saddleback Church in for a year and a half.  Saddleback just finished a 40 day campaign on "What on Earth Am I Here For?"  This is based on a re-release of Rick Warren's book, "40 Days of Purpose."  I read the book when it came out 10 years ago, or rather, I power-read it. This time I've been reading it devotionally.  This is my #2 "must-read" book for anyone. 

So, I'm a little behind the rest of crowd. I'm on Day 33. Today's chapter is "How Real…

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