Southern Thai Muslim Film Production In the past three years, Steve has contributed to three different Create International movie productions: Buddhists (Shan 2009), Hindus (Marwari 2010) and now Muslims. We are pleased to report that principal photography is now complete on our most recent production. Through many daunting difficulties and uncertainties, our Father enabled us to produce the first-ever evangelistic film in the Southern Thai dialect, contextualized for muslims in Southern Thailand living on the Malaysian border. As a ministry this may have been the first time we ever auditioned an Imam (Muslim religious leader), or that we were invited to a village by an Imam to shoot a film about the teachings of Isa Al Masih (Jesus the Messiah). Steve was really proud of the contributions of everyone on this production, and especially the SFM students who were on our film team. The film is now in post-production where it will be edited over several months, so you will hear more about it in future. In the meantime, Steve will be publishing one photo per day on Facebook with more details about the production. Thank you again for your prayers and financial support that has enabled us to create this evangelistic film for Muslims to hear the gospel for the first time. Your support will have a direct, lasting impact on muslims in this area.
Flood of the Century
You may have seen in the news that Thailand is suffering from what is being called “The Flood of the Century.” It is certainly the worst flood in recent history, and has had very serious consequences for the whole country. Bangkok’s 12 million residents are under the imminent threat of more flood water, and many places are already below six feet of water that will likely take a month or more to recede. Supermarkets all over the country are growing bare as supply lines have been cut off due to washed out roadways. Please pray for the people of Thailand and especially relief and rescue workers and those making some very hard decisions in the days ahead.
Call2All Global Conference
In our last newsletter we wrote about the upcoming Call2All Global Congress in Los Angeles (call2all.org). Of the $10,000 we require to cover the event and travel expenses, we are pleased to report we have already received sufficient funding for our biggest expense: our roundtrip airfare from Bangkok to Los Angeles. We are now hoping for the other half of our need to cover the roundtrip tickets from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, and for Los Angeles to Boston―as well as the hotel, rental car and meal costs. Thank you for your contributions that have brought us to the halfway point and for those of you who are already contributing to the rest of our need at this time. We depart on November 21st and will need all the funding to come in before then to be credited to our account in time. Your partnership with us will allow us to reach out to many other members of international organizations prepared to use media to share the Good News to more Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims worldwide. In the new few weeks, we are editing a behind-the-scenes video that we’ll share with film professionals in Hollywood to demonstrate how we create cross-culturally relevant evangelistic films. We are also preparing our presentation to train other media missionaries to use our techniques to effectively create evangelistic films. Your prayers and financial contributions are giving us a great shot at multiplying the effectiveness of our ministry a hundredfold. Maybe more. Only God knows, yet we are excited to think about the possibility of many others joining our effort to see more of these films made in the next ten years. Thank you for joining us in this exciting time of growth and expansion for our ministry. "
Meet Wole, an SFM Student from Nigeria:
Weeks ago while Steve was teaching scriptwriting to many international students, Wole from Nigeria really blessed him by turning in this assignment during a creative exercise. We have his permission to share it with you. Wole writes: “Larry Airington was iCool's best salesman. So, when iCool ( a budding air-conditioning company) got an opening among the Yupik (Alaskan Eskimos), they did not think twice before handing it over to Airington. It was up to Airington to figure out how to sell Eskimos on air-conditioners! That is much like what Steve had to do this week. . . . teaching Scriptwriting to students who'd rather be out in the sun all day shooting video than to spend twenty minutes writing non-stop. However, by the end of the week, Steve's preparation, masterful teaching skills, and fun-pragmatic approach paid-off―every student had 3 or 4 “air-conditioners” all purchased from Steve! Thanks Steve for making authors out of budding directors, actors, gaffers, etc. I learned something new about giving careful attention to your herds this week as I watched our Speaker Steve teach us, interact with us during lunch and dinner, listen to us, go with us to karaoke, do the dishes, etc. I think that is a powerful demonstration of Proverbs 27:23: Be sure to know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds.” Thanks again, Wole.
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