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Hello my friends, family, pastors, China-outreach ohana, and loved-ones in
Christ.

Most of you should remember me from New Hope or the China outreach we took
together, or know me otherwise as a friend and Christian. If you find my
name unfamiliar, perhaps the attached photo will help jog your memory.

For the past few months I have been taking classes at Olelo Community
television to obtain my "Producer", "MiniCam","Studio", and "iMovie"
certifications. It has taken a lot of personal time and even time-off from
my job to get these certifications, but I feel they will be well worth the
eternal rewards to come.

I have been inspired, among other things, to bring to television a play,
written by a University of Hawaii student, that deals with the issues of
abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and suicide. It is a powerful drama
and has a redemptive message at the end using the song "Free" by Kirk
Franklin.

I am writing you today to ask for your prayers and support for this project
called "Chains".

Not long ago I was inspired by an evangelist named Winkie Pratney
(www.moh.org) as he taught about Inductive Preaching (a text used at my
Bible college 17 years ago, still sitting on my bookshelf) and the use of
drama and storytelling to preach a message. He asked the simple question of
his audience, "what is the 8th beatitude of the sermon on the mount?" As
the audience sat trying to count down from memory what it might be, he then
asked another question. "Tell me the story of the prodigal son, starting at
the point where the son is feeding corn to the swine, and do a flash-back to
the begining of the story and then finish the story."

Everyone got the message, and so did I. It was easy to recall the story of
the Prodigal son, but hard to recall a linear fact from the sermon on the
mount. An analysis of the sermon on the mount shows a different way of
preaching and communicating a message, that goes beyond point 1,2,3 type
sermons.

The audience of the church, the unreached, is an MTV-style generation, with
video clips on the screen flipping images measured in quarter of second
increments. Try to sit that generation down and listen to a 3 point sermon,
and you lose them after the first 5 seconds.

I don't know where the Lord is leading me fully, but I am trying to follow
Him and this project "Chains" is one of my first baby steps in that
endeavor. It's not going to be a Billy Graham presentation of the Gospel.
Nor is it going to be a Franklin Graham or Greg Lauire presentation. In
fact, "Chains" didn't start out to present the Gospel. But in the pain and
hurt and suffering and evil that it portrays it resounds with 'reality' to a
hurting world that can identify with those pains. All that is needed is a
faithful gospel presentation to be complete, to heal the broken-hearted and
set the captives free.

Please pray with me and for my crew and cast that their would be an
anointing on this project, and that there would be resources for more like
it.

I put together a short streaming video promo to do my crew-call, which has
some pictures from the UH performances in it. You can see this at
http://www.officehiway.com/chains/

I have felt like this is something the Lord may be calling me to do with a
calling into full-time ministry. I have postponed leaving my job at my
families request since seeing on the other side of the looking glass is
difficult for them and me to do at this time.

My often listened to mentor at a distance Winkie Pratney speaks of how Abram
was called by God to leave the Ur of the Chaldees to go to a land that he
was to be shown. Answering such a call nowadays yields irate family members
saying "God said what?!"

Please lift up this project and my future ministry in your prayers.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

Blessings!
Ronald Jones
azusastreet@hotmail.com
ron@behealedhawaii.com

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