Three Video Crews Here in One Day!

Even though the Creation Museum has been open more than five years, film crews from around the world continue to visit and film. On some days it can be a TV news team that has flown here from Japan to do a feature piece on the role of religion in America, to an article for a newspaper in Switzerland. Even Al Jazeera, the Arabic news network, has been here twice (and its reporting about us was fair).

It was a particularly busy day last Wednesday when we had three different video crews visiting and filming the museum. One represented a live-action video for teens that will be produced primarily for Christian families, another is producing a pro-life documentary (I was interviewed, along with Dr. Georgia Purdom), and the third represented a major TV outlet (which we’ll keep quiet for the moment). The documentary film, to be released in 2014, will be on the creation vs. evolution issue and done in a balanced way, on a network with a viewership of several million people in America and England. In a few months, I’ll let you know more about this creation vs. evolution documentary. Because the crew was here for four days filming in the museum and interviewing me and other staff, AiG and our Creation Museum should have a prominent place in this major film.

Yes, the media are still fascinated by the museum and also the Ark Encounter.

Outreach to the Middle East

One of my personal passions, shared by many of our staff members who have spent time in the Middle East, is to reach Arabic and Persian Muslims (and other Muslims) with the message of the gospel. That takes the form of many things, including a major speaking tour of Egypt by AiG’s Terry Mortenson when much of the uprising was occurring in Cairo last year. We are also “behind the scenes” in a major way for an Arabic-language website that uses apologetics to present the gospel.

On Thursday, I was glad to welcome ministry friends Monir and Samya. At our chapel service, they shared something about their ministry to Muslims. Through radio programs, literature, DVDs, website, and music ministry, this delightful couple (he is from Egypt originally, and she from Lebanon) are on-fire Christians who reach out to Muslims primarily in the Middle East (and here in the United States).

Find out more about their ministry (by the way, I have not given their real last name for obvious reasons, as they travel to the Middle East constantly and into areas that can be very resistant to the gospel) at www.calloflove.org.

Monir is a well-known Christian singer among the millions of Arabic-speaking Christians around the world. As a musician, he goes under the name of Monir Habib—watch him sing and play the lute below:

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It was also good to see my friend Faris Sahawneh during our chapel. Faris was here at the museum with his family and to meet with Monir and Samya. Faris is on the staff of Mid-Continent University in western Kentucky. Originally from Jordan, Faris played a part in getting me an honorary doctorate from MCU earlier this year. He “conspired” with my wife and some of the AiG staff to bring me to the MCU campus under the pretext of speaking in chapel and getting to know the faculty of this fine university. Just a few minutes before I was to speak in chapel, the university president and Faris dropped the news that they would be giving me an honorary doctorate! And then my “conspiring” wife whipped out the special robe that I was to wear. Sneaky. But somehow I made it through the chapel service.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken