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Face to face with genocide- final


Posted in General Posts by Tyson Payne on 8/18/2010


Thailand- Face to Face with Genocide- Final!


Posted in Burma- Genocide by Sean Smith on 5/16/2010


"We don't need another Christian video! We need Christian's producing quality film!  We don't need Christian music!  We need Christians producing quality music on the earth!  We don't need Christian Arts- we need Christians operating in the Arts!" Andrew Shearman  
 
What's interesting is during the past few years I have been networked with an interesting array of people:  Two friends of mine are composers on a very excellent and rare level, one friend who is a professional cinematographer and has worked for many of the big name TV Networks, I met a Hollywood producer while in Thailand, I personally know the director of the biggest TV station in Holland who produces documentaries from all over the world.  Additionally, I have many contacts on the ground in Thailand that are eager to help!  I'm not a "lone wolf" on this!  The list goes on and on- it's kind of odd and crazy!  I 'm eager to maximize potential!- The connections I have could mean nothing or everything!!  I'm done with small and colorless dreams!- these children disserve for me to think big!  This will take a lot of work-! But I will see it through!!!

Questions you maybe asking;
1) What's the story- or the focus?  I'm compelled to share the story of Hope! "Light in the Darkness" Within the realm of murder, rape, and genocide- exists something more powerful and beautiful then anything I've ever seen!  Children walking in the substance of what the church preaches!  The Gospel- the tangible relationship with God that defies circumstances!- The hope of Christ and the supernatural that exists in their lives. To share the intimate story of the people; a child, a mother, a family and etc!-  A camera is a window- I strive to pull back the blinds! 
            a)I'm not attached to how big or small this becomes or doesn't become! However, I am attached to seeing this through and doing this with excellence!  I feel responsible for what I know and the relationships that have begun!
            b) This is NOT about guilting viewers with another world issue with no way to get involved!.  Viewers will be moved with hope- and provided ways to get involved!  Whoever watches this will be effected! My intent is to promote change with the situation in Burma but also with the viewers watching! 
 
2) Are you done, when can we expect the final result?  I have hours and hours of footage but it's not enough.  Simply, I need to go back!  I believe I could achieve my goal within 2- 3 more visits.  I have an open invitation from "David" to go back at any point!  I hope to make many visits over the years! The earliest I could return is early fall.  Many locations aren't accessible at the moment due to it being rainy season! I desire to go back for 5 or 6 weeks.  Gathering footage is important- but my greatest desire is to further my relationships! Does it make sense I just want to be with the children??!  If my focus was only the film- I wouldn't be able to tell their story! I want to further the bond I have with the people, live with them, love one them.  I will work and shoot film from this heart posture!!  From my relationships will be the potential to capture the real story! Relationships take time, honor, love, trust and patience!  Simply I love these children and want to honor them if I am to tell their story!
 
3)Am I the right guy for the job!? Would the people be better served if someone else did this that has more experience?!  I don't know... ! My heart was moved to act- so..... I did! If I hadn't I wouldn't have met those children!  I aim to finish what I began!  It seems I have found myself in the right place at the right time- with the right people! I believe I'm positioned in a way that professional cinematographers spend years trying to achieve. I feel responsible for the relationships I have!  Without arrogance, something in me "says"- I have the ability to catch something and tell a story that only I could.
 
4) So Sean... if someone asked you today- "what do you need?" What you say??
I ticket to Thailand would be a start but an investor! $15,000!  The amount is not reserved nor overboard!!! I have been researching for the past 3 years the right equipment necessary for a project just like this! Oddly enough I had this list prior to ever going to Thailand! I can share line by line of how the money will be allocated and used. It's cost efficient, compact, and will produce the best results that money can buy while being realistic! Cost covers equipment, and the basics of travel and food.
 
I'm a man of excellence- and believe stories like this are the reason why the nicest cameras on the earth exist!  This will not be your typical "Christian video." I believe it will be raw and real but also anointed... telling the story of the people!
 
Currently, I have a broken SLR camera that only shoots on Automatic, a borrowed HD camera from The-WorldRace, and a shotgun mic!  Maybe now you understand why I feel like I'm throwing stones at a giant! However if all I have to go in with is a broken camera and a borrowed Video-camera I will!  I'm thankful for what I've been given up to this point!
 
At this point I'm not sure what the result will be!.  On this side of the table, all I can do is give it my best shot, see it through, and let the chips fall where they may!- But there's potential!
 
** My intent in sharing all this was not to ask for money!  These are practical questions I've been asked, and I may be the right guy- that the right person has been looking for!!- you never know **
 
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog and for following me!!  Please remember the faces and the situation in Burma!
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A movement...?


Posted in General Posts by Tyson Payne on 8/18/2010


A Movement...?


Posted in hope by Sean Smith on 8/13/2010


In the past two weeks I've flown through three countries and have been to three states in the US and am now back in Spain.

I ended my last blog with this:
"You maybe asking, "a movement of what?" Please stay with me in my next few blogs as I continue to share. I will up date you on N. Thailand and my exciting progress, my time in Spain since I've returned from the leading a Wordrace squad, and specifically what coming on staff with the WR will look like."
 
To continue where I left off, this is my take on the "movement" of the World Race...and what I see forming!  A dream that is coming to fruition!

ER Nurses, teachers, husbands, wives, business owners, cops, home owners, college grads, nobodies and everybodies, musicians, artists, chefs, the highly educated, and the somewhat motivated have been coming! They have admitted to hearing a rumor, a whisper, that there is more! With honor for all those who stay in their occupation or vocation they heard the call to leave theirs.  With love-ones and past lives behind them, they have chosen to heed to the beckoning call!  They have said- "The cries of the nations have reached my ears! I will go, send me!"
 
There is a message... and this message is catching momentum....
 
It's not some new message, but rather one of old. This message is alive and will always remain current-! It's centered on the simple truth of Christ and that God the Father will do exactly what He said He would do.
 
The Worldrace has formed out of this message and we are taking it literally around the world time and time again! 
 
There is a heart cry from my generation that say's "I know there is more!"
 
And so they keep coming, and we keep sending!
 
They infiltrate the dank dark rooms of bars where prostitutes take their post- and guide them to another and better way!  They deliver babies in the back of vans from HIV positive mothers.  They're not turned off by the pungent stench of the poor, or the urine socked orphan!  Bad breath, BO, or unattractiveness won't keep them from hugging and kissing those who are destitute and need love. They hold the sick, heal the sick, comfort the dieing and on occasion even raise the dead!
 
They can camp in a tent in the middle of the African bush during the peek of summer or stay in a comfortable hotel in London- it doesn't matter to them!
 
They understand that stewardship isn't limited to money... but encompasses grace, faith, forgiveness, hope, love, joy, and then money.
 
11 countries around the world isn't a big deal to them, they don't need it!  It just happens to be a part of the deal!.
 
They have gifting but more importantly they have character.
 
Honor, integrity, faith, hope, and love are in each step they take! And with every new place they venture into a legacy continues to grow!
 
They are a people who walk in the mystery of Grace- and extend it to others. They have been bathed in forgiveness and in turn can't help but give it away!  They have decided to be outrageous givers and amazing lovers! 
 
With everything they receive they give God all the Glory and hold nothing as their own!
 
They keep saying we won't give up, for He didn't give up on us!

They know they aren't perfect or have it all figured out..but they live as if they are being guided by the one who does!

They don't identify who they are based on what the world saysbut rather by what HE says!
 
They know how to point to the Father and say, "not by us but by Christ- for He is everything!"
 
This message refuses to be franchised, diluted, bought, detoured or lured away! 
 
They are people with rough knee's and colorful dreams!
 
Out of this message is being birthed a movement!
 
What was once just a message is becoming a real and tangible reality.
 
We are the movement!! A body of people who are moving from where they have been to where they are going!  As we move forward... they keep coming!  They hear the same rumor and whisper within their soul as we did. One by one they take this message around the world:    Christ!
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Just a little bit


Posted in General Posts by Tyson Payne on 8/18/2010


from my awesome team leader Kelsi Dawe!!

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Update 2: Only $906 NEEDED!
Thank you to all my monthly supporters. Y'all are AWESOME and reflect God's faithfulness during this season. Also thanks to The Belkot Fam!

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UPDATE 1: ONLY $982 NEEDED!
THANKS MOM AND DAD. LOVE Y'ALL AND SEE Y'ALL SOON!

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Howdy!
 
My Time Left On The Race: 24 days
Support Still Needed: $1,132.00
 
Just a little blog to tell you...
There's just a little time left,
And I need just a little more support.
And if you give a little you can help in a big way.
 
Can you give $25 today?
Please ask God if He wants you to support what He has done through me this year. 

THANKS!
Love y'all!
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# of times I used little: 5 (counting title)
# of times I used just: just 4 (now 5)
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Moldova part 2


Posted in Moldova by Tyson Payne on 8/10/2010




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Moldova part 1


Posted in Moldova by Tyson Payne on 8/10/2010




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Nigeria... better late than never


Posted in Nigeria by Tyson Payne on 6/24/2010




nigeria from Annie Walker on Vimeo.

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Romania


Posted in Romania by Tyson Payne on 6/18/2010


Another look at our time here in Romania by Annie Walker.


Untitled from Annie Walker on Vimeo.

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Jesus wont walk 100 yards for you


Posted in Romania by Tyson Payne on 6/18/2010


Posted in Romania by Jordan McGuffin on 6/17/2010


jesus won't walk 100 yards for YOU, not even for this girl pictured!!!

This is the message being preached to the small gypsy community I visited today.  This is the message the Romanian church down the street screams with their actions and words.  The village we went to today consists mostly of Romanians, except for one street of Gypsies who are looked down upon, ignored, and avoided.  They are supposed to keep to themselves, and are not to interact or come into the Romanian part of the village.

The people who profess to be Christ followers from this village, seem to fit into the second group mentioned in Matthew 25.

"Then he will say unto those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer him saying, 'Lord when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.'"
Matthew 25:41-46

They are HUNGRY (physically and spiritually) yet go unfed...
They are thirsty (spiritually) yet go unquenched...
They are naked and go unclothed...
They are the least of these and NO ONE comes...

People from across the world have come to visit these Gypsies, but the "jesus" in the "church" down the street will have nothing to do with this community that live 100 yards down the road.  

When the children followed us to our car, some Romanians told them to go back to their homes and get away.  Honestly, the Romanians and gypsies don't look that much different from each other.  YET, the hate the Romanians have towards the gypsies could be comparable to how the blacks probably felt in America years ago.

It is sad  that the Romanians in this area claim to be Christ followers, but when it comes to his word they pick and choose what they want to follow and obey.  They obviously have marked out the verse that commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves.  I bet the people that attend the church down the road will be real surprised who makes it to Heaven and who doesn't on judgment day, because I know God loves these gypsies with all His heart.  And eternal life is available to them just as much it is available to the Romanians.  

I know my JESUS would and does walk 100 yards to meet these gypsies where they are at.

**All pictures taken by Kelsi Dawediv>
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A guitar, frisbee, and bag of candy


Posted in Romania by Tyson Payne on 6/18/2010


Posted in Romania by Jordan McGuffin on 6/16/2010


Five of us and a translator set out for ministry this afternoon (with short notice), and headed to a very, very small gypsy village.  Our translator had mentioned something about music, so I grabbed the guitar on my way out the door.  In the car, we realized we had a guitar, a Frisbee, and a bag of candy to work with.

This gypsy village wasn't very large, but fifteen to twenty kids came outside to hang out with us.  We played on the single street going through this gypsy community.  The first woman we talked to had two children, but her husband had left her for another woman.  The house we played outside of was owned by a few women, who prostituted themselves for an income.  The children of this village are very poor, and lack many needs and definitely wants.  

We didn't come to this street to change their living conditions, we didn't come to preach at them, or even feed them, but what we did bring was love.  Our LOVE today came in the form of a guitar.  I played a song that I wrote, and worshipped from my heart on the side of the rode. A couple kids stood near, and said they liked the music, little did they know I was trying to bring Heaven closer to Earth. Our LOVE today also came in the form of a frisbee.  A couple people from team "Second Mile" spent quality time with some of the older kids, by teaching them how to throw a frisbee.  For all we know, that was the first frisbee they have every thrown.  Our LOVE today was tasty, as well.  Each child got a few pieces of candy, which we were told is a real treat.  These families do not have money, they have their farm crops and that's it.  There is no buying of treats for kids.


We ended the day with an old fashioned game of "RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT." These kids had a blast, and I know God is still replaying the track of their laughter over and over again.  Lifestyle Christianity is just loving God and loving others.  It doesn't take a plan and lots of money.  It just takes your heartbeat and Gods' heartbeat colliding, and for us-- a guitar, a frisbee, and a bag of candy!    

**All Pictures Taken by Kelsie Dawe**
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First steps in Romania


Posted in Romania by Tyson Payne on 6/12/2010




First Days in Romania from sydnee mela on Vimeo.

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