What We Do
Visual Story Network accelerates the mission of the Church by equipping our generation to use media, story and innovation to make disciples in least-reached nations. We do this as we…
- Train leaders
- Unleash the power of global partnerships
- Produce media and equipping resources.
Movement Mindset
The purpose of the Visual Story Network is to foster movements of media, story and innovation that accelerate disciple-making and church planting. A movement is a group of people with a shared set of aims bigger than any single entity.
How We Started
In 2005, Jim Green (Director, Jesus Film Project) and Rob Hoskins (President, OneHope) were waiting for a plane together in Bangkok, Thailand. Each shared a deep desire for the body of Christ to be more effective in leveraging visual media for the Gospel. Several conversations followed that led to a May, 2006 meeting in Orlando between leaders of the OneHope, Jesus Film Project, Bearing Fruit Communications and the Caleb Group. Amidst the voices of the 20 people gathered, one Voice emerged.
There was overwhelming agreement on the need to expand a movement of “visual story” for the kingdom of God. The group agreed to form a core group that would research, advocate and collaborate on new ways to reach people in our increasingly media saturated world. Clyde Taber (Director of Multimedia Design, Jesus Film Project at the time) was asked to oversee this new initiative.
In 2008, Clyde left Jesus Film Project to focus full-time on the development of the network. Visual Story International, a non-profit (501c3) was created to be the legal platform to support the Visual Story Network.
