Local church equips youths for evangelism through filmmaking seminar

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Date Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:39:14 +0800

3128 Edition

February 6-12, 2012

Church Ministry News

Local church equips youths for evangelism through filmmaking seminar

Reported by Lin Yi-ying

Written by Lydia Ma

Since so many churches in Taiwan have been actively training their youths in 
sharing the gospel via multimedia and film, Taichung Presbytery’s Chung-Lun 
Church Youth Zone decided to enlist the help of Taiwan Theological College and 
Seminary (TTCS) in equipping its youths in this discipline.

A camp on evangelistic filmmaking was held from January 31 to February 4, 2012 
with the help of Hong Ying-chuan, a TTCS seminarian currently doing an 
internship at the church, and 21 youths attended the camp. The church invited 2 
renowned film directors as guest speakers and New Eyes Television (NETV) 
producer Chen Yi-pin was also invited to teach about screenwriting. 

“This is the first time that a local PCT church has organized a camp on 
filmmaking,” said Hong. He added that a similar camp was held in 2011 but 
participants then were already mass-media students or professionals, not church 
youths. In contrast, the purpose of this camp is to equip church youths who 
haven’t had any prior experience.

During the camp, participants were divided into two groups for the purpose of 
friendly competition and producing two films by the end of the camp. One film’s 
storyline revolved around two brothers who fell in love with the same woman and 
turned against each other before reconciling. The other film’s plot revolved 
around a car accident where both parties learned to let go of their anger, 
forgive, and reconcile. 

Both films were produced in 2 days and they are currently being edited. They 
are slated to be released on Youtube, with subtitles, before the end of March 
2012.

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