Rich is a media professional who serves with national believers and Muslims to create short films that engage Turkish people, helping audiences see Jesus in refreshing new ways. His latest set of videos, The Messiah in Our Day, sets stories about Jesus’ teaching and miracles in 21st century Turkish cities. Rich identified social, religious, and personal needs of Muslims and addressed them in videos based on stories about Jesus. He has completed five short movies and three more will be finished soon.
After Rich released the first movie about Jesus raising a soldier from the dead, a viewer independently dubbed it into Arabic and distributed it. Hundreds of thousands of people watched it.
Here’s a more recent sample video Rich produced that mixes a contemporary honor killing with the story of Jesus’ mercy on a woman caught in adultery:
The other four videos address:
- Nicodemus visiting Jesus – Impending death, sickness, and shame
- Jesus parties with sinners – The religious vs. sinners
- A paralytic is healed – Shame, punishment, kismet
- A widow’s son is brought back to life – God’s heart for widows
Rich wants field workers throughout the world to freely use his videos for ministry. His team will make the video files and scripts available to anyone desiring to dub/subtitle the films into another language. If you will find local people to make audio recordings of characters’ lines from the scripts, Rich’s team will apply them to the videos.
You can access all these short films (and three more coming soon) at YouTube / TÜM FİLMLER. Turn on English captions with the CC button.
The next three films will use stories about Jesus that address the secular mindset and mortality, thinking for oneself vs. ideas we inherit, and occult danger.
Please send an email here if you have questions, comments, or you wish to start making these films available for your people group.