Who I am
STORYTELLER
As long as I can remember I’ve loved a good story. Stories help us understand the world around us, communicate complex topics, and learn truths that we may not have seen. There is power to a great story.
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THERE IS POWER TO A GREAT STORY
WHAT IS MY “WHY”?
As a teenager my life was radically transformed by the love of Jesus Christ. I felt God calling me to some kind of ministry, but at the time all I knew of ministry was teaching and preaching. I fell in love with the art form of spoken word poetry and the ways it could be used creatively to share my faith, thoughts and ideas. Wanting to learn how to create videos on my own to share these poems, I took an Introduction to Video Production course my freshman year of college and was hooked. Creating videos, telling stories that resonated with people, and having fun doing it was now all I could think about. I saved up my money and bought myself my first camera and began teaching myself photography as I continued to dive deeper, learning anything and everything I could about video storytelling.
I was obsessed. I was creating content left and right, and getting paid to do it, but I began to wonder if I had lost sight of God’s calling. I began meeting with mentors and trusted advisors seeking answers to this. But as I wrestled with if I was supposed to give up photography and videography, the Parable of the Talents (as sometimes translated) out of Matthew 25 and Luke 19 began to resonate with me. The story is about the master of a group of servants investing an allotment of money to his servants while he goes away, and what they do with it. And as I would pray and seek wisdom about what to do, I couldn’t shake the message and theme of this story. “What are you going to do with what you’ve been given?”
It wasn’t an either-or. My love for creating and telling stories, and my passion for Jesus and people were not mutually exclusive. My calling is, and has been, to create and tell stories, and to use these stories to tell others about the God who loves them.