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Learning from Failure with Dallas Jenkins

Dallas is the Director of The Chosen, a must-see show about the life of Christ. The show became the highest grossing crowd-funded project of all time.

Carl Barnhill

Two years ago, I interviewed Dallas Jenkins to talk about church media and his movie The Resurrection of Gavin Stone.

Dallas, who has had a career in Church Media staff positions at churches and through filmmaking, had a slate of projects lined up for 10 years with major Hollywood studios and producers.

All that changed in about 2 hours.

The Resurrection of Gavin Stone did not do well at the box office. Dallas watched as his career went downhill very quickly. He was humbled beyond words at the failure of the film.

It was then that God took him on a journey of what He had in store.

He is now the Director of The Chosen, a must-see show about the life of Christ. The show became the highest grossing crowd-funded project of all time.

Dallas is a Church Media guy. I talked with him at the National Religious Broadcasters convention about how God has really worked in this life lately.

Here’s the full interview:

Carl has served on staff at some of the largest churches and organizations in the country. He served as Media Director at Precept Ministries International, Video Production Director at Pinelake Church in Brandon, MS, and most recently, Video Coordinator for Newspring Church in South Carolina. He currently serves as Creative Director and Owner of [twelve:thirty]media, a company that serves churches and ministries all over the world through motion graphics content and church media coaching.

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