Christian Media &

Film Fellowship

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy

of the gospel of Christ.......with one mind
striving together for the faith of the gospel.
Php 1:27

Jan 4, 2008 InterVarsity National Staff Conference

Christian Film & Media Fellowship Initiative
Pilot at Syracuse University – Newhouse
Expansion via InterVarsity Christian Fellowship national network
Contact: John Decker 315.656.7973 john_decker@ivstaff.org
Two Objectives of Initiative:

(1) Enhance the Christian Media Student’s effectiveness for the Kingdom as they learn & launch
into your media careers.

– Create national/global website to tie together Christian media student and professional resources,
to collaborate on projects and open doors professionally (in-process now)
– Create campus media teams/fellowships at Christian and secular film schools to draw together
Christian media students to share ideas and collaborate on projects in their schools.
– Create foundation for financial resources to enhance the quality of undergrad and graduate film
& media projects so they can be distributed

(2) Use Media Student’s current media interests in a way that connects evangelically to students
on their own campus. Create easy-to-use model for many campuses.

* Most people are drawn to media. It can be used to foster discussion and gospel conversations.
* Strategically use FaceBook, YouTube, and websites. The human connection – tie to testimony,
conversational evangelism.
* Organize regular Christian film forums on campus – and show a combination of quality evangelical or
apologetic films, their own works, other students works from around the country, and follow it up with
testimony and discussion. Provide how-to and menu of films to easily replicate on campuses

Next Steps & Collaboration at SC08 :

Establish more academic and professional connections for database

Discuss and pray about additional ideas

Find some partners on specific campuses and within IV such as 2100 Productions to collaborate with

Enhancing the Christian Media Student’s
effectiveness for the Kingdom as they launch
into their media careers.

– Encourage and draw together SU Christian media

students to share ideas and vision with each other.
– Network with:
• Christian media students (SU, domestic & international)
• Media professionals (Christian and secular)
– Get assistance (financial and other) to enhance the
quality of your undergrad and graduate media projects
• Increase quality of your project to facilitate public distribution
or for student use nationally/globally
• Create foundation to supply financial grants to qualifying
evangelical film & media projects
• Obtain casting support
 Examples of Assistance
• Networking assistance – compile, share, & introduce global
and local contacts for the purpose of advancing Christian media
• Christian students in other media & film schools, etc.
• Christian student media organizations (like IV 2100 Productions)
• Christian professional organizations
• Christian publication possibilities & film festivals
• Secular professional organizations

• Project Assistance – obtain resources to produce higher

quality projects while in school that can be useful in Kingdom
growth and building
• Use above networks to assist
• Create a foundation to award funds to evangelical projects meeting
certain criteria – in order to gain public exposure, Kingdom use,
prepare for profession, and an encouragement for students to
follow.
 Using your media interests in a way that
connects evangelically to SU students
(and providing a model on how this could be done on other campuses)

1. Most people are drawn to media. It can be used to foster discussion

and gospel conversations.
2. Organize a regular Christian film forum – and show a combination of
quality evangelical or apologetic films, your own works, other
students works from around the country, and follow it up with
testimony and discussion.
3. Use the film and media discussion as part of conversational
evangelism
4. Find ways to incorporate your own works and Christian Content into
the web & social networking like FaceBook.
5. The human connection – tie to testimony, evangelism
6. Establish a model that can be replicated on other campuses

Create media works that can be used on
campus now

1. Short videos (discuss examples)

2. Documentaries (short or long) – discuss practical
advantages of documentaries
• Discuss topics and examples of existing works
3. Dramatic videos (short vs. long)
4. Websites
5. Graphic arts for display on campus and
supporting campus kingdom events
6. Printed works
How to use & distribute media on
the campus

Regular Film forum (indoors) followed by
testimony & discussion
– IV has been planning to kick this off shortly, so we
want to collaborate on that.

Outdoor Aug, Sep, April outreach films

Website creation

YouTube & Facebook

Advertise via table events – with previews on
laptops

Local Cable Stations
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….reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
This took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia
heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
Act 19:10