My Last Day gospel presentation out of 'R&D'

Research and development is a funny thing.  Sometimes you get a group of people together and they have a great idea but the timing is not right.  That is my perspective on this meeting that we had two years ago.  The meeting was for the purpose of following up on the 'My Last Day' anime film that we had completed the previous year with Brethern Entertainment and Studio 4C in Tokyo.  This 9-minute film on the crucifixion of Jesus had been a test, a 'pilot film' for the idea of combining JESUS film dialog with new visuals and new story telling (in Japanese anime) to tell the story.

The group had been excited about My Last Day and felt more of the life of Jesus needed to be done in this form.  Their key conclusion though, was that the next step was that it needed to be combined  with a gospel presentation on a mobile device that would be simple enough that anyone could use.  The immediate idea was to develop an app - but as it turned out the timing was not right.

I did have the option to start working with Karl, our campus R&D guy in Hong Kong.  Karl and I came up with a way to do the gospel presentation in a series of Photoshop files and 2 clips from My Last Day.  I feel like it was the Lord's provision when I found the iSpring plugin for Powerpoint.  Now we could export each screen as an image out of Photoshop and combine these with the videos in Powerpoint.  Their plugin allows you to produce an HTML5 website that can also be downloaded into their free iSpring app (on iPad and now Android).  You can see the result in English here

While it is not an app per se - it has some of the elements of what Karl was envisioning, combining video, images and some animation - viewable on a mobile device.  It also is easily translated because of the use of My Last Day (now in 117 languages) and Knowing God Personally (or the Four Spiritual Laws) which is also translated in something like 100+ languages.  One of our projects this year is to work with field people and make this available in 20 more languages.  Please pray for John and me as we work on this.

For His fame and glory!  Under His grace!

Irv

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