The office is buzzing a bit today as we get ourselves ready for a new video shoot starting tomorrow. We will be working on the video portion of an interactive version of By This Name. I’m pretty excited about this project! By This Name is one of our three main evangelism books for adults, but we currently only have a workbook for it. By comparison, our older book, The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus, has quite a few derivative books and resources: an audio book (either CD or a free MP3 version), a full 12 hour video version, an interactive version, large print,  workbook, and soon will have a teachers guide.

By This Name is the book we now use in all our evangelism seminars and is the book we recommend most, so I am quite happy to get started on adding new resources built around it for people to use in their evangelism and discipleship Bible studies.

An interactive version of the book will feature a DVD in the back that can be viewed to help explain more difficult parts of the book.

A sample from The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus Interactive book.

When someone comes to one of the video sections in the book, an icon informs them that there is a video segment they can watch to help explain that section or provide supplemental information. Having an interactive version of By This Name will open up new opportunities for teachers and individuals using this book, and is also a vital component to eventually creating a Teachers Guide.

As we ramp up for the video shoot, we will be pulling staff from around our office out of their regular duties to help. We will be having camera operators, people recording time codes, someone operating the teleprompter, audio person, etc. This project could take a couple months as we shoot a bit of video each week. Please pray for our staff, and especially John Cross (who we will be taping), as we start this video project and move it forward to completion.

Thank you,

Troy & Naomi