The Bible Story Family

 Before CapCut, iMovie, and VN Video Editor, there was 16mm film. Editing wasn’t done on computer. Physical tape was cut with a knife and spliced with tape. My father loved it. As a church planter in Montana and Wyoming he prepared films to advertise the progress of new churches, camps they supported, and locations in need of the gospel. Filmmaking demanded creativity. For one movie he laid the title out in our yard with a long rope. Then he filmed just the rope as someone out of sight pulled it straight. Next, he had the film developed and then sliced it in the right places and reversed it before re-taping. When the film played, it looked as if the rope formed itself into the words for the title. For another title he pasted words onto the window of our car. He started filming with the window down and the title magically appeared as someone out of sight rolled up the window. Dad helped with the founding of thirty-four churches during his time as Field Director for the Inter-Mountai...

Fifty-seven years working for one ministry deserves to be honored. Word of Life is now eighty-five years old, and Rick Brooks has been serving on staff for fifty-seven of those years. That is a dedicated record. When Rick began his ministry with Word of Life they were just expanding into the west from their base in Schroon Lake, New York. He took on the responsibility of training a team to serve in the Rocky Mountain states and stayed with that project for twenty years. As the ministry expanded overseas, he served in England for three years, training a team to do that work. Word of Life now operates in eighty-eight countries. Next, the ministry asked him to become the assistant to the Overseas Director . In that role he became a missionary to missionaries. He helps missionaries raise funds for building projects, recruits doctors and dentists for healthcare trips, and provides encouragement and care for those who serve the Lord around the world. This has been a ministry for both Ric...

  Serious question! Where do you find a script that includes twenty-nine actors ages 4-18 and presents a gospel message? Serious answer! You write your own. That is exactly what Marjean Moffitt did recently in South Carolina. She turned the story of P.P. Bliss into a play which was presented entirely by homeschoolers. They performed the drama twice, at Agnew Road Baptist Church in South Carolina, and again at Grace Baptist Church in East Flat Rock, North Carolina. Mrs. Rebekah Hawkey directed the play, assisted by many mothers who helped with costumes, props, lights and staging. One mother served as the accompanist and arranged the music for two of the songs. A sophomore, David Hawkey, wrote a new tune for the Bliss song “My Prayer.” Marjean worked with the fifth and sixth grade boys on their lines and lyrics. “It was a challenge at first,” she says, “but I was so proud of them by the end.” Practices were held once a week for two months with parents driving many miles t...

  One of the first articles I ever had published was a short story called “God Believes in Nurseries.” Based on a true incident while Dwight Turbett and I served in a summer ministry in Little Rock, Arkansas, it celebrated the oft-overlooked Nursery workers in our churches. One of their greatest contributions involves making it possible for parents to focus on the worship service of the church. A team from our church recently fulfilled that role in a unique fashion. They traveled to Freiburg, Germany, for a Baptist Mid Missions Conference. Their purpose in going was to oversee a children’s meeting so that missionary parents could concentrate on the teaching and worship taking place in the conference. Missionaries from both Germany and France participated. The eight team members from Fourth Baptist Church worked with children of a variety of ages. They took them hiking in the Black Forest. They played disc golf and other games. They read books and sang songs. They conducted a se...