Telling “His”tory
On the cover: a young man eagerly reads his new bible — by full-moon light after he and his fellow villagers in Papua New Guinea received at translated bibles in their own language.
Gaylon working recently in Madagascar
For more than 15 years photographer I have been helping Christian organizations, relief agencies and publications get the word out — through photography — of what God is doing in the lives of his people around the world. Based in Colorado with my amazing wife Carrie, I have worked in more than 150 countries and would be honored to help tell your story.
Children play in the village. There are no board games, card games, electronics, etc. They play together in team and group oriented games.
Girls use their flashlight to read along in their bible. The island of Santo, Vanuatu on the way to Big Bay. Church at Big Bay. AGWM Vanuatu with missionary Bryan Webb.
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The village of Ranpoutor on the coast of Pentecost, Vanuatu. Cooking fire for a fish picnic at the beach. Family cooks fish over a fire at the beach.
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Medical mission to the village of Ranwas on the island of Pentecost, Vanuatu.
Village woman holds a baby in the custom village on Tana. I was here in Vanuatu, photographing the work and mission of Assemblies of God missionary Bryan Webb.
Before the big feast, a group of men and boys head into the jungle to hunt. Men and of age boys wear a covering called a Nambas. 3
Exploring one of the many active volcanos in Vanuatu. At the one and only health clinic in operation on the island of Pentecost, a crowd of villagers gathers around missionary Bryan Webb to hear the latest news from the outside world. 4
The village of Ranpoutor on the coast of Pentecost, Vanuatu. Supplies and passengers arrive and depart via boat.
Journey to Erromango Island, Vanuatu for story about a church that couldn't be built properly without sand. The villagers prayed and fasted for sand. The sand came shortly after when a cyclone came and deposited all the sand needed for construction. Visitors would come from all over the island to witness this miracle. The next cyclone season, a storm came and after the church was built, all the sand was washed away. There is no sand visible anyplace near here. At the end of the day, it's bath time. Children and adults jump into the fresh water of a river to bathe.
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El Salvador is plagued with gang violence on an epic level. Thanks to the work of missionary team Kenton and Elsie Moody, gang youth are starting to come compete at an obstacle course set up on church grounds — right on the border of the 18th street and MS 13 gangs. But there’s more — the gang youth are starting to come to church.
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Kenton and Elsie Moody Mission in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Since the Moody outreach began a few years ago, children are able to play at will in the streets of the their neighborhood. Here, Kenton visits neighbors to check on their lives.
Santa Ana, El Salvador. A new family at the Open Door Church was found to have been living in a home made of nothing but plastic sheeting. So, Kenton and his team dismantled one of the wooden structures on the church grounds and trucked it to the home site and rebuilt it for the family. Little girl watches as team builds her family's new house and interacts with Kenton.
Santa Ana, El Salvador. A gang-plagued community set up along a former railroad track and where the Moodys minister to. Here, Kenton physically goes to one of the students that failed to show up at the grade school. “If I lose hime today, he will be lost forever” Kenton said as we drove to the child’s home. Children are enlisted in gangs at a very early age and once they’re in, it’s very difficult to save them. 7
Havana, Cuba.
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Children from a school in Sri Lanka's interior visit the beach, most for the first time, on a school trip to the nation's capital, Colombo, Sri Lanka. They danced, and celebrated their experience.
Abodjegan Primary School, a Christian school where there once was none — Central Togo, West Africa.
Pastor Tchapo's Tsito Village AG Church in Togo. 9
Water well project in Togo.
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Church in Samanzing Papua New Guinea.
After working 20 years on a bible translation in a village in Papua New Guinea, missionary Neil Vanarias says goodbye. Bible translation in Papua New Guinea. One of the Samanzing villagers with his family's bibles. 11
Not far from the small town of Kinna, Kenya, this family of nomads of Somali/Kenyan descent are suffering. They arrived in the area just weeks earlier and then one day their livestock started dying. Now, all the goats and sheep and camels but a select few are gone, the food is finished and the father apparently gone mad with guilt and sadness. Could this family be just the beginning of a tragegdy set in motion by the lack of rains. When we handed them food, the Matriarch said "Allah Ahkbar" They have nothing to eat really and didn't know what they were going to do. The Kenyan government has said there is no crisis and they are providing food and water at refugee camps speread across different parts of the country. But here, there are no camps. There is no water and there is no food. 12
A pastor in Tanzania.
Abdi's brother Yusef holds the chicken that will serve us as dinner. Bryan Burr and myself were a guest of Abdi, the villlage chief in our quest to find those that needed help from the drought.
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People work together to put a tarp roof over their make-shift church in a refugee camp outside of Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Refugee camp next to destroyed church in Port Au Prince, Haiti. 14
A man surveys the remnants of homes in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Many homes and buildings just turned to dust.
Men stand by a road next to their refugee camp. They wait for passing cars to stop and occasionally offer jobs to qualified men.
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Refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo. People fled their homes to escape the fighting. These camps are near Goma in Southeastern Congo.
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A woman and her baby at a refugee camp in the DRC. The woman is widowed and her baby was born while fleeing and suffered injuries as a result. The baby reaches out to a friend of his mother who was shot while fleeing. People fled their homes to escape the fighting. These camps are near Goma in Southeastern Congo.
Father, son and family camel plow land that is just being moistened by newly arriving rains on the frontier of eastern Ethipia.
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Once in Libertad, we are taken to see Young Wilson Serecham. The young man had been ill for more than 30 days. Jungle missionary Joil Marbut gave him some medication and he was then taken by plane to Secua for treatment at the Hospital.
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A Christian missionary baptizes a young woman in the waters along the coast of one of Vanuatu's dozens of islands.
Children gather around a single bar of soap and a wash pot to clean up for lunch after working with their families in a city dump.
A girl prays at her church in the Repbulic of Georgia. 19
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Cross reflects in water droplets of window — Western Samoa
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