Christian Review Magazine Issue 3 - March 2015 | Page 36

MAKING MOVIES WITH A

MISSION
A FEATURE ARTICLE BY MISSIONARY FILMMAKER, KENDRA WHITE

Photo: Faith Dawson

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efore I was a filmmaker,
I was a missionary. I
served in a far off
land- heroically sharing the love of
Jesus with dangerous tribesman
who threatened to boil me alive
unless I renounced my faith. Ok,
ok… I was seven years old at the
time and the tribesman lived only
in my overly active imagination.
But it all felt very real when I
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played “missionary” in my
backyard in Wilmore, KY back in
1994. All I knew was that
missionaries told people about
Jesus, and ever since I had come
to know Jesus as my personal
Lord and Savior, that was all I
wanted to do.
Throughout high school, I eagerly
sought the Lord’s will for my life

and prayed earnestly for direction
for the next step. I figured that to
be a missionary, I needed two
things - a calling to a specific
country and a specific task. The
problem was I had neither. I didn’t
know where to go or what to do
when I got there. What I did have
was a growing interest in writing
and storytelling. I’d written a few
short stories for a competition and