Oh my goodness…. It is hard to put into words how it felt to being standing in the middle of absolutely sweeping, cinematic landscape. To be looking into the camera and picturing Chinese university students, Cambodian children, Arabic families… to understand the depths of the magnitude and weight of the words we were speaking and the potential of the LIGHT and LIFE they carried….. To be explaining how the Lamb was examined by the high priest to guarantee that it was indeed perfect and without defect and blemish, to describe that innocent lamb taking the penalty of death in the place of the guilty sinner that he might live….. to think that in the next episode in a few weeks, as we get into the New Testament, we are going to be teaching that JESUS IS THE LAMB, the promised Messiah who came to lay down His life to pay our sin debt and rescue us from death and give us life!!

Three words come to mind in describing how one feels on location as we film: Solemn Adrenaline Rush.

We just implore you to please battle for us in prayer. We long for your prayers that we as a team would continue to be completely united (it has been incredible! How we praise God for our team) that we would be abiding in Christ’s life, renouncing any and all attempts at fleshly striving or vain glory. That we would know God’s perfect balance in all areas of our life. That we would press on!

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Check out the photos below or see all of the production photos on our flickr.

And something so great about Brazil is people’s openness and willingness to have their placed used to be filmed. I guess if you have these white foreigners come in, saying they are doing a film project and loved the view from their place, wouldn’t you want to see what they were filming? We even had some cows wanting to try out to be our Egyptian cows. They didn’t make the cut, but they tried. It was nice though the cars actually respected the cones we placed out. Check out the video and when you watch Deliverance remember you saw the reality behind the opening scene!

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Here’s a little preview of a couple shots we did at a small coastal lake about an hour from our house! All locations we shot this episode at were under an hour and a half from our office. How cool is that? This day Joel, Ana Cassia, Cynthia and I were the film crew.

It’s wonderful to work together with people whose dependance is on the LORD and whose focus is explaining and getting God’s message out to the world. And to be a part of a team where our hearts are daily being molded to serve and be obedient not to our egos or personal dreams but to our Creator and Savior who has a special purpose and place for each one of us. Imagine years of college studies, having a degree bio-chemistry, yet you’re the one who clacks the “clacker” with a smile and becomes a make-up artist the next instance! For His Glory.

We are pushing forward to focus more on filming the base teaching of all the episodes since a series is most beneficial if you can watch the entire series! AND, my beautiful wife Cynthia is now pregnant with our sweet baby number three! So, we needed to film this episode before our little one started growing too big!

Again, our alarm clocks were set for 3:30 a.m. to be on site for sunrise. Here was one morning doing the river shot. Actually God had better plans than we did for these shots. The sun really never shone bright that morning, which was perfect, because these shots are going to become “night shots” as the blood of the passover lamb is being placed on the doorways!

Here’s some more stills of our adventures.

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So what would you do while you wait for sunshine in order to film? All of our shots are done in sunlight. So we can’t shoot unless we have sun. Brian, Jocelyn, Cynthia, Ana and Joel were waiting around one morning for sun and here’s what they decided to do.

Now that this episode is all filmed the video is going to be set aside for a bit (maybe a trailer might sneak out sometime). Now comes the process of gathering actors and props to make the truths of the Bible even more vivid and the reality of these historical events more so.

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THE SCOUT: Checking out places, sun angles and ideas. Here’s “kinda” the Light in Action process of doing that! Dependent on HIM and having fun in the process. You’ll see us taking pictures and getting an idea of the scene through the eye of the camera and seeing how the different locations work out.

THE HIKES: It was fun, hard and a work out and soo worth it! Some of the shots we even had to carry the equipment up the location the afternoon before, then hike back up the next morning in the dark! Then, go back down with all the same equipment. Our trail guide Brian, decided also that we should go down another way… it was shorter but you’ll have to watch the end part of this video to see how fun it was!

It’s a privilege to be able to explain God’s eternal plan of rescuing mankind from their sin in such wonderful surroundings that also cry out “Eternal and Divine Creator”.

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Before the teaching segment of each episode there is days of brainstorming to figure out the general feeling for that episode. Then it’s off to wonderful google earth and all the cool pictures people post from all over the state of Rio Grande do Norte.  Finally, you find some spots… so you have to go in person to check them out. After 5 days of scouting different areas you have to come back home to the studio and re-evaluate the hundreds of photos and videos taken. That’s when we finally decideded on the location for Provision: PEDRA DA BOCA “Rock of the Face” in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil!

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