Good Morning Chicago
Good morning, Chicago! Welcome WMBI Morning Show listeners. It’s been a fun time this morning with Jon Gauger, guest host of Friday’s Morning Show. He invited me to join him and talk about photography. Specifically, photography in a cross-cultural and ministry context. You see, we just spent ten days together traveling through South Asia reporting [...]
The Best Camera
“Can you recommend a good camera for me to take on my next missions trip?” As the Awana International photographer, I’m often asked this question, or some variation of it. And I try to dodge them all. I wish I could tell everyone what that camera would be, but because of the almost daily [...]
The Trust Factor
Shooting photos is one thing. Telling stories of people’s lives is quite another, especially in ministry. I want to be accurate; I need to be concise, yet most people, when I interview them for twenty minutes or more, and yet the video will only be five minutes in length, know that not everything they say [...]
Network Solutions
So, you think your Internet connection is slow today? This photo was shot on the balcony, just outside an Internet café in South Asia. -John Awana International
Capturing the Moment
There are many approaches to how one looks at photography. Art, news, story and many others. I tend to be a story person and a particular challenge for me is to be able to “capture the moment.” That takes experience, but the way to get experience, is to simply keep shooting. That’s why, apart from [...]
The Power of Seeing and Hearing
Eye On Awana is the new Awana International blog site. We hope to make it more than just a blog. We want to share with you some of our passion for reaching out to kids around the world in a cross-cultural context using the Awana ministry. For most of us here in the Awana office [...]
