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Joshua Chew

Joshua Chew, Founder of Ablaze Media ProductionsJoshua Chew is the founder of Ablaze Media Productions and co-founder of Project Ablaze Fellowship.


Joshua is also the Managing Director of Global Creatives Collective, a community of creatives who want to use their skills to bring light to the darkness, to unveil God-given dignity by telling the stories around them, and by telling THE story — of God and His grand scheme to save humanity through Jesus.


Joshua lives in the Philippines and works throughout Asia and Africa. He speaks English, Mandarin, Bahasa, and Cantonese. He loves working with mission agencies, missionaries, producing missions introduction videos, testimony videos, and fundraising videos. He has experience shooting in Asia and West Africa for various organizations, ministries, and missionaries when invited in an official capacity.


Aside from media production Joshua also offers training in photo and video skills to help Jesus followers produce better content themselves for newsletters, supporters, etc.


Joshua is also familiar with security needs in sensitive areas.


He is the co-founder of a missions mobilization fellowship, Project Ablaze, a network of agencies, organizations, and workers from South East Asia and beyond who "seek to coordinate raising awareness efforts, coach and guide potential missionaries, and produce content for raising awareness."


Photo courtesy of Joshua Chew. Used by permission (personal correspondence).

Visual Storytellers: Igniting Hearts Through Visual Media

By Frank Johnson on July 31, 2024 0

Today's Crowd

During Jesus’ ministry in Galilee — a small, but densely populated region — he often encountered crowds of people searching for a shepherd who would guide them and feed them. There is also a crowd today — over 3 billion people who have not had an opportunity to hear the gospel of Jesus nor experience his love. How can this crowd be made visible to God’s people so they will be spurred to action on behalf of the unreached? Joshua Chew — through Ablaze Media Productions — serves the worldwide church by documenting the plight of the unreached and making the crowd visible to the church, and by equipping others to do the same.

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Highlights the paradigm shift from traditional to new media platforms and the implications it has for Christian discipleship in the third millennium. Brigid Ayer, a veteran broadcast journalist and media guru with 25 years experience in the field, uses her expertise to explain and unpack methods of harnessing this new tool to reach souls for Christ and make a positive impact on the culture.

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In an age of accelerating information and increasing technology, media matters more now than ever. In this book, Read Mercer Schuchardt helps us navigate the digital age from a distinctly Christian perspective, offering guidance for becoming wise users of media rather than simply being used by media. Highlighting the importance of studying and understanding communication arts and how they are changing, this book will help you think creatively about using media effectively for the sake of the gospel, the church, and the world.

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Until that day, we commit ourselves to loving our brothers and sisters in Christ — no matter what their people group, no matter what their language, no matter what their race, no matter where they are from — and to living in community with them — that the world may know that the Father loves them and that He sent You to save them.

This day, we devote our lives — our time, our money, our passion, our mind, our strength, our everything — to see Your gospel proclaimed in every corner of this world.

And we thank You for the astounding privilege of playing a small part in carrying Your name to the nations!

Pray for the Tsukuba Express Church Planting Team

Tsukuba Express Line

  1. Please pray for the areas surrounding these twenty rail stations: Akihabara, Shin-Okachimachi, Asakusa, Minami-Senju, Kita-Senju, Aoi, Rokucho, Yashio, Misato-chuo, Minami-Nagareyama, Nagareyama-centralpark, Nagareyama-otakanomori, Kashiwanoha-campus, Kashiwa-Tanaka, Moriya, Miraidaira, Midorino, Bampaku-kinenkoen, Kenkyu-gakuen, and Tsukuba
  2. Pray that God would raise up church planters and send forth laborers into the harvest fields surrounding these stations (Luke 10:2-4).
  3. Pray that God would help these church planters identify persons of peace in the areas surrounding these stations (Luke 10:5-8).
  4. Pray that God would enable these church planters to speak the word of God with boldness in these areas (Luke 10:9b).
  5. Pray that the proclamation of God’s word in the areas surrounding these stations would be accompanied by demonstrations of God’s compassion and power (Luke 10:9a).