William Haun Photography, Video, and Web Development » William Haun – Multimedia Artist

Announcing AfricaStories.org!

William — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:02:08 +0000

I’m really excited to announce the latest web project I’ve been working on with the IMB’s Sub-Saharan Africa media team. AfricaStories is a new web site they’ve launched that features multimedia stories about God’s work across the continent. The purpose of the project is not only to inform readers (you!) about the needs and struggles of faced by those in Africa, but to motivate you to become engaged yourself.

I really hope you take the time to read the stories, browse the photographs, and watch the videos on AfricaStories.org. Please help spread the word by sharing the site with your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and whatever people still using MySpace are called.

The media team has some incredibly talented writers, photographers, and videographers that have contributed content for the first 5 “story packages” we launched with. The site will continue to be updated with new stories on a regular basis (subscribe for updates!).

My contribution to the project was creating the website that delivers the content. I used Wordpress as the content-management system it runs on and made quite a few customizations using jQuery. Most people think of Wordpress as mere blogging software, but it is quite flexible. In fact, in this implementation I completely removed the blog “posts” feature and just use the “pages”.

The main jQuery plugins I used are jQuery TOOLS and ColorBox. This was my first big leap into the world of this Javascript platform and I was really impressed with its ease-of-use and the community supporting it. What I would have created with Flash in the past, I am now able to pull off with Javascript and still have great cross-browser compatibility.

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In Honduras for a Week

William — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:22:20 +0000

I’m on a trip to Honduras for 8 days to work at an orphanage. I’ve got an internet connection but it is slow and unreliable. I’ll try to post a pic up here every day or so.

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Building Up the Next Generation

William — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:58:51 +0000

I mentioned a few weeks ago that some of my images were published in the (free!) West Africa missions magazine. In you didn’t order a copy of your own (remember it’s free!), you can now read one of the articles online at www.gowestafrica.org.

The article online is the story Emily Peters wrote about Pat Ozment, a missionary teach young national pastors at a seminary in northern Ghana. The piece has a couple of my photos as well as a video slideshow I created that lets you follow Pat on one of his training workshops in a village. The music in the video is by my friend James Madison Thomas. You can watch the video below:

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New “Go West Africa” Magazine

William — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:57:35 +0000

While in Ghana last Fall I took photos for a story written by Emily Peters about the work of missionaries Pat & Peggy Ozment. They are training Seminary students and local church members to use Bible storying to share the Gospel. That story has now been published by the imb in a FREE missions mini-magazine that you can order online.

The theme of this Spring 2009 edition is “Building Up God’s Kingdom.” Here’s a run down of some of the articles:

war-weary pastors encouraged by peace-making volunteers.
rural Mali villages impacted by a ministry in bustling New York City.
seminary students thrilled by hands-on training from a gray-haired professor.
new believers building their faith despite cultural challenges.
small churches taking big steps of faith to get the Gospel to unreached people groups.
and more!

Order your FREE copy now!

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Training for Rural Trainers in Ghana

William — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:48:11 +0000

I just wrapped up a short video slide show for the imb’s West Africa region. The video is an “online extra” to a print article in the next edition of Go West Africa magazine. The publication should come out in a few weeks.

The video walks through one of the TRT (Training for Rural Trainers) workshops in which missionary Pat Ozment teaches national church members how to share the Gospel using the oral tradition they are familiar with.

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A special thanks to my friend James Thomas who let me use his great instrumental track “Waterwheel”. You can watch him perform the song on Youtube.

Credits

Photos & Narration by William Haun
Based on the story by Emily Peters
Music by James Madison Thomas

Training for Rural Trainers in Ghana is a post from: William Haun Photography, Video, and Web Development

Story on the Robertsons in Cote d’Ivoire

William — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:05:00 +0000

When I was in West Africa last year I visited the Robertsons and shared stories from their ministry on our haunsinafrica.com blog. This week some college students volunteering in West Africa put out a great story and two videos about Jerry, Carol, and the Nafana people. I was excited to see that some of my photographs made it into the videos.

You can read the story over at www.gowestafrica.org and watch the videos (one of which I’ve posted below).

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West Africa Missions eNewsletter

William — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:27:00 +0000

For over a year and a half, I’ve been working with my mom sending out a bi-weekly eNewsletter called the “The Intercessor Connection.” The newsletter always contains one or two stories written by or about Southern Baptist missionaries serving in West Africa. My mom is the newsletter editor and I create and launch the emails every other week.

The subscription base has grown to almost 3500 now and I thought I’d promote it a little here. You can see past issues of the newsletter on the gowestafrica.org website and you can also subscribe to start receiving it.

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Wrapping up a Week of Missions Media

William — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:12:38 +0000

For the past three years I have been the volunteer webmaster & tech support guy for the International Mission Board‘s (IMB) West Africa region. This year the IMB held its first Media Conference for all the missionaries in media roles around the world to attend. I was invited to help represent the West Africa region.

The week of sharing stories, showcasing work, collaborating on projects, and planning future media strategies was phenomenal. It was a great time for me as I made a whole bunch of new contacts from every corner of the world. I was able to learn a lot more about how I can help with missions advocacy and I was inspired to keep working hard and focusing on the giant task at hand.

Please pray for all the missionaries as they fly back to their countries this weekend and try to put all the new ideas and technologies they picked up to work.

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