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A Missionary’s Life :: Lights, Camera, Action!

Well, it’s Friday again and we’re finally back with our FRIDAY UPDATES! (The once a week blog where we fill you in on the random happenings of our lives). Sorry we’ve missed the past few weeks – we took off for our vacation and since then have been catching up with work and preparing for a trip down South for Training Camp and support raising. (More on that later!)

For now, we wanted to share some of our latest videos with you! As most of you know, Rusty has a very specialized skill set from his time in TV – he is great at shooting, editing, and anchoring video pieces! Over the past few months, he’s been given more and more opportunities to use those skills in his job with The World Race, and his part-time job at our church. He gets almost all the credit for the pieces below, but he is slowly teaching me how to shoot and edit too! It’s been fun to be a part of some of these projects. Check them out!


The World Race Report. This is a new project that Rusty has been working on with Kim Daniels and Katie Rowland. It’s a “News” style report that shares some of the stories from the past month on the World Race. This episode includes stories from Thailand, Haiti, Kenya, and Tanzania. Check it out below!


Tanya Karkanen’s Story. Tanya is one of the women from our church, and she has quite the “God Did” story! Rusty put this together to share her story, and to help promote the “For Their Lives 5k” our church is hosting this weekend. The event is to raise awareness and support for single parents like Tanya, and the money raised will go to SafeHorizons, a shelter for battered and abused women. It aired on Mother’s Day. You can watch this powerful story below!



Channel 9 Cincinnati. This video wasn’t edited by Rusty, but a lot of it was shot by him! An ABC affiliate TV station in Cincinnati, Ohio contacted us about running a story about The World Race. This is the first big media hit for the program, and Rusty was excited about being a part of it! Because of his history in TV, he was able to provide the station with all the World Race video they needed (most of which was shot by Rusty!) One of the shots they decided to use was of me playing with some orphans in Swaziland. There is also a great interview with our friend and WR Alum Andrea Wendel!








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The Fun Referee. We thought we’d save something fun for last! This is a video I helped with a lot (and we both appear in it). Our church has been going through a “Mythbusters” series. The week this ran, the subject was the myth that “God takes the fun out of everything”. We made this as a humorous piece to illustrate how some people view God – as a “referee” who makes rules about everything and blows his whistle on anything fun! If you want a good laugh, check it out!




That’s all we have this week. We hope you have a Happy Friday and a great weekend!

2 Comments

  1. Whoah – that Fun Referee was extremely hilarious! Praise God He’s not really like that! And how awesome that the TV station will support and highlight Daniel’s experience on the WR!!

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