2020 — Case study
I Waited Patiently
A Sunday message written and recorded for Red Hills Church
- Client
- Red Hills Church
- Scope
- Writing · Video Production
Brief vs. breakthrough
A message written for a room and recorded for everyone who was not in it — twenty minutes, one through-line, published with the service on the church's channel.
- Written and delivered for a live Sunday
- Twenty minutes carried by one through-line
- Published with the full service on YouTube
The brief
Red Hills Church asked for a message written for a Sunday morning and recorded for the people who would watch it afterward. The brief was to write as if the congregation were in the room: plainspoken, rooted in Scripture, and carrying its own weight without slides or spectacle.
The approach
Written to be heard once rather than studied at a desk. One line of thought runs the whole way through, the language stays inside what a listener can follow in real time, and the close gives the room something to do with what it just heard rather than only something to agree with.
The result
A twenty-minute message delivered and recorded on July 26, 2020, running from 37:30 to 58:01 in the service video — published on the church's channel alongside the rest of Red Hills' weekly teaching.