Do you believe in the power of prayer? Do you want to be a part of a movement to turn Hollywood and the entertainment industry back to Jesus?
Please join WitnessLA.org and our friends and partners for TheCRY Hollywood - a day of prayer, fasting and worship for our city and for Hollywood on March 15th at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. It will run all day from 2pm-midnight, and will bring churches and ministries together from around the city with a heart for this monumental cause.
It’s not a conference. It’s not a concert. It’s a cry. More information is available on TheCRY Hollywood’s official website or in the videos below:
Our friend Andy shares an amazing story about God’s incredible provision - when he took a chance and followed the dream God had put on his heart, all of the finances for the project were miraculously covered by someone he had just met.
We’re so blessed to welcome Kytia as the newest Voice in our WitnessLA Family. Kytia, originally from Hawaii, is a beautiful and talented actress, model and writer with a huge heart for the Lord and a calling for Hollywood. In this powerful testimony, Kytia shares about her struggles with beauty, identity, and staying true to the Lord in the challenging and competitive entertainment industry.
Being beautiful on the outside isn’t something I’m always striving to be, but knowing that I’m exuding beauty from within is very important to me. Unfortunately, it’s taken me a while to know who I truly am and to accept that person. Before my relationship with God, I struggled to feel beautiful and that’s one of the reasons my mom enrolled me in modeling classes when I was 15 years young. I didn’t know this at the time, but it was her way of boosting my self esteem and helping me to accept my femininity.
God is moving in Hollywood, even in the most unlikely of places.
At a recent charity event hosted by Oprah, the presence of the Lord suddenly fell upon Gospel singers from both old and new generations, as spontaneous songs of worship broke out, and the power of the Holy Spirit brought tears and conviction to many African American celebrities from Alicia Keys to Tyler Perry to Janet Jackson alike.
Alicia Keys - “You can’t imagine sitting there in this spectacular environment and feeling the Spirit of God and celebrating the blessing.”
Diane Sawyer - “For the rest of my life I think that may be the most transcendantly spiritual moment I’ve ever been a part of.”
When was the last time you saw a man drop his crutches and walk?
This is another video from our friend Tony the street evangelist. His passion is to take God’s love to strangers on the street here in LA. We are so blessed that he’s decided to share some of his raw street ministry videos with our readers here at WitnessLA.org.
Recently, Tony was at Hollywood and Highland when he found a man on crutches with a brace on his leg. Tony prayed for the man to be healed, and this video captured what happened next.
What if our lives looked like the stories we read in the Bible?
Our good friend Tony is a street evangelist, and his passion is to take God’s love to strangers on the streets of LA. We are so blessed that he has decided to share some of his raw street ministry videos with our readers here at WitnessLA.
Recently, Tony was on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood when he found a man in crutches who was paralyzed on the right side of his body. Tony prayed for the man to be healed, and this video captured what happened next.
In the spirit of our friend Jaeson Ma’s “Glory” Album Release on December 7th, for the last two weeks at WitnessLA.org we’ve featured the stories and testimonies of Christians in the entertainment industry. We’re concluding the series today with our friend Jon Lee’s thoughts on the meaning of true leadership and how we can all make a difference.
A pastor once said to me that Southern California has a disproportionate influence over the rest of this nation and the rest of the world. And I came to Hollywood to change the world and to get one message across from Galatians 5:13, “serve one another in love.”
I currently am a Producer / Development Executive for an independent production company and my path to this position has been a long learning process of working hard and really trying to better those around me, or as I like to call it, servant leadership. Through my work with cast & crews and the work that I will hopefully have on-screen, I want to spread this idea of servant leadership, of serving one another in love, to the world.
Imagine a society where everyone lived to serve each other, and everyone served you in return, which would only make you want to serve everyone else more. Wouldn’t the possibilities be endless for the things everyone could achieve? There would be no space for jealousy or selfishness in an environment of unity, only encouragement and ideas designed to maximize one’s potential.
Unfortunately, the model doesn’t really exist in Hollywood (or most of the real world) because many people, including myself, can find ourselves to be self-seeking.
In the spirit of our friend Jaeson Ma’s “Glory” Album Release on December 7th, all this week at WitnessLA.org we’re featuring the stories and testimonies of Christians in the entertainment industry. Our friend Dinah shares her story of how she came to work in Hollywood and how she hopes to see it change.
Hollywood is defined on the web as “the film industry of the United States” or a term to describe something that is “flashy and vulgar”. What comes out of Hollywood often influences what people in the world see as the values of America and Christians. When I was in High School, I was faced with the reality that the values of Hollywood did not align with my own. I remember God saying to me that he wanted me to get rid of my Hip-Hop/rap music that was glorifying sex and violence. So I got rid of all of it and since then would avoid listening or watching anything that did not glorify Him. Being so out of touch with the latest popular media, I am still a little dumbfounded to find myself working in the Hollywood industry. To me, that itself is a witness that God is on the move to align Hollywood with Himself.
In the spirit of our friend Jaeson Ma’s “Glory” Album Release on December 7th, all this week at WitnessLA.org we’re featuring the stories and testimonies of Christians in the entertainment industry. Our friend Ashley Choi shares about her journey of finding her calling into the world of entertainment.
Q: Thanks for speaking with us! Could you please share how you are currently involved in the entertainment industry? What kinds of projects have you been working on?
I currently work with some amazing recording artists. I’m involved with artist management and manage the intellectual property and brand of Justin Timberlake’s hip-hop/rock band FreeSol - signed to Justin’s label, Tennman Records, and Interscope Records. We’ve been working with a wide array of producers for this album including Timbaland, Rob Knox, Cool & Dre, Jim Jonsin and others. Working with a creative talent like Justin is great and he’s done a good job Executive Producing FreeSol’s album that’s dropping early 2011. I’ve been blessed to be working alongside pretty phenomenal, humble, and extremely talented people. I also work in creative integration between music, films, and TV with both foreign and domestic films and projects.
Q: How did you first enter the industry? Did God speak to you on this calling?
God was definitely the reason I had an open-mind for the entertainment industry as I initially had no desire for it.
