Beyond Sight

28
Apr

Beyond Sight to Park City

Derek Rabelo’s story continues to have a huge impact around the world. Derek is our blind surfer friend from Brazil, and his movie, Beyond Sight, is about his quest to get a barrel at the most dangerous wave in the world, the Pipeline. We were blessed recently to see two important ministry moments happen simultaneously around the world: Derek was sharing his story and giving away 500 copies of Beyond Sight in Australia, while his movie was being shown to hundreds in Park City, Utah.

Park City, Utah: Russ Jackson accepted Christ on a surf trip when he was in his 20’s and has been a huge fan of surfing ever since. Russ now finds himself living in the mountains in Park City, Utah, but that doesn’t stop him from using surfing, the one thing that saved his life, from being used in his own community to reach others for Christ! So Russ, his wife Julie, and son Luke decided they wanted to show Beyond Sight in Park City, Utah at an amazing theater that is used for regular film festivals. Russ and his family worked so hard to promote the movie and were hoping that 100 people would show up. To their amazement and joy, over 350 people showed up to see the movie, and many made first time commitments to Christ. Russ and his family are so blessed that surfing was used again, even in Park City, Utah, to bring people to faith in Christ, just like it did for Russ years ago.

We are praising God that now more than 200,000 people have seen Beyond Sight in live attendance and Derek’s story continues to make an impact in peoples lives.

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20
Dec

PipeMasters Commercial of Beyond Sight

The PipeMasters is the Super Bowl of surfing. There is no greater event to watch in the world, than surfers competing at the best and most beautiful wave on the planet. With over 7 million core surfers tuning in to watch the live webcast of the PipeMasters, we decided to give away the Beyond Sight Movie to everyone watching the contest. The draw of Derek’s dream to surf Pipeline has continued to be a huge light to the surfing community as thousands have tuned in to watch his story. Through your support, we feel so blessed during this Christmas season to be giving away a gift that again points to Jesus Christ.

Thanks to your generous support the Beyond Sight commercial on the Pipe Masters live webcast had a huge impact! Each day people on the North Shore would tell us they saw our commercial and it opened up doors for us to share the Gospel. Over 500,000 core surfers from around the world watched the commercial and the Beyond Sight movie was seen by thousands of surfers in over 50 countries! Since 500,000 people saw the commercial and found out about the Walking On Water ministry we believe that we will continue to see the impact of the commercial in the coming months. Having a presence at the Super Bowl of surfing is exactly what the Walking On Water ministry should continue to do in future years!

You can watch the 15 second commercial by clicking here, or below:

Thank you again for stepping out in faith with us on this project! We hope to do it again next year!

Bryan Jennings and The Walking On Water Team

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20
Oct

Derek Rabelo in New Zealand

Derek Rabelo has just completed a very blessed tour of New Zealand. The eleven day tour was organized by Rosemaree Knight and Jeanine Treherne from Australia. The tour covered the area of Auckland-Raglan-Mount Wanganui, and it included visits to churches, youth groups, a TV Interview for Shine TV, and more. Derek was interviewed by Radio Rhema, visited The New Zealand Surf Academy at Raglan Area School, surfed with enthusiasts, Christian Surfers, and other Christians who braved the cold water. He also had the chance to show the Beyond Sight movie three times.

During the tour they made many good friends, and Derek especially loved meeting a blind boy at the event hosted by Christian Surfers at the Mt Manganui Social Club. It was a truly incredible time, and they were blessed with wonderful hospitality along the way.The tour had great program support & hosting from many churches and youth ministries, and Derek was encouraged to return and visit even more places in the future. What a Mighty God we serve.

Written by Monica Swanson • monicaswanson.com

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26
Apr

Vail Outreach

The Beyond Sight Showing in Vail turned out to be a great night of ministry. Pastors from 6 churches were at the movie, and many, many friends of believers came! There were over 450 people in attendance, (every seat was full-and kids were on the floor!) People were invited to churches all around the valley, and we are believing God to use the showing for His good purposes and plans!

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26
Apr

Colorado Impact

Buck and Tara Chavarria, the founders of SK8 Church ministry (christforlifeskatechurch.com) did an amazing job hosting and promoting the Beyond Sight movie at the Chief theater in their hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The theater was packed out and the audience loved the movie. We hope to bring Derek Rabelo to Colorado in the winter of 2016 so he can learn to snowboard and inspire everyone there through more Beyond Sight movie showings. To host a showing, email Katherine@walkingonwater.com

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22
Mar

Ventura Beyond Sight Showing

The Beyond Sight movie showings (Sponsored by Scosche!) at the Century 10 Cinemark movie theater in downtown Ventura were such a reminder of what a great inspirational movie Beyond Sight is! Our team was very encouraged by the SOLD OUT showings and the audience reactions! We even had 3X World Surf Champion Tom Curren play a few songs for us. Bryan Jennings’ long time friends Roger & Melissa Thompson along with Jason Walters were the “City/Theater Hosts” who worked hard to bring together many of the local churches and schools to pack out the theaters! We plan to go back to Ventura in April and also will be planning many more Beyond Sight movie showings in every city where we have a “THEATER HOST”. To be a “THEATER HOST” you simply need to be willing to step out in faith to work together with our planning team to show the Beyond Sight movie in your local movie theater, working together with your local churches, schools, and ministries. Also Derek Rabelo is planning a few Beyond Sight movie showings in his hometown and other cities in Brazil in April and May.

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09
Dec

THE BEYOND SIGHT DVD AVAILABLE NOW! THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

Walking On Water Friends,

Our hope is to see you give the Beyond Sight DVD to all of your family, co-workers, friends, classmates, and neighbors for Christmas! It is a very affordable way to give a meaningful Christmas present to those you care about! We have limited DVDs in stock so please order today and know that by doing so you are also supporting the Walking On Water ministry!

CLICK HERE TO ORDER

$15 for 1 Beyond Sight DVD
$20 for 5 Beyond Sight DVDs (So you can give to friends as Christmas presents
$32 for 5 Beyond Sight DVDs and a Beyond Sight hat

Merry Christmas,

The Walking on Water Team

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28
Jul

East Coast Trip with Derek Rabelo

Walking on Water has done Surf Camps and outreach events up and down the West Coast and all across the world. These past two weeks, Derek and Kevin hopped on a plane to the east coast for two outreach events, and a surf camp. Their first stop was Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The week started with a great Beyond Sight movie showing that opened up ministry opportunities the rest of the week. Both Derek and Kevin were interviewed on TV and openly shared the hope of the Gospel on a prime time news station. Kelly Richards of Perfection Surfboards hosted the Walking on Water team during their stay and was a huge blessing. Then the boys headed north to Wilmington, North Carolina, to help Indo Jax Surf School with their charity Blind Surf Camp. Jack Viorel and his team do amazing work in their community. Derek helped young visually impaired kids get on some waves, and truly encouraged their families along the way. We also did a hugely successful outreach event where we showed Beyond Sight and shared the Gospel with all of those attending. We continue to be blessed and encouraged by the impact Derek and Beyond Sight have had in communities around the world, and we are thankful for all you do to make that happen. Hope to see you at our next outreach event!

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23
Mar

Beyond Sight World Tour Update

March 7th marked one year since the Beyond Sight world premiere in San Clemente, California and the movie has now been seen by over 50,000 people in 12 countries. However in many ways we believe the world tour of Beyond Sight is just getting started. Bryan Jennings and his family recently traveled to Sayulita, Mexico and screened the movie to over two hundred people in partnership with our friends, the Cathey famil,y who have started the Calvary Chapel church there. In November of 2013 Derek and Bryan were invited by the Stand Tall Event of Australia to come as special guest speakers. Very strong friendships were built that year with the Stand Tall event leaders, and since then God has done amazing things! Nutri Grain of Australia has featured Derek in a nationwide TV commercial, put him on the back of every Kellogg’s cereal box, and overnight made Derek a celebrity in Australia. Derek recently spent six weeks in Australia showing the Beyond Sight movie in many cities and doing Nutri Grain public relations events. The Jennings’ family also met Derek on the Gold Coast of Australia recently, where world champion surfer Mick Fanning posted the Beyond Sight movie invite on his instagram to his 350K followers. We had over 700 people attend the movie showing, and Derek was featured on the local news. In Australia on this trip Bryan spoke to three churches, three schools, scouted new surf camp locations, hosted four Beyond Sight showings, and most importantly was able to thank our incredible Australian volunteer team who worked hard to plan all of the Beyond Sight showings in Australia! Anyone in Australia or anywhere who is interested in hosting a Beyond Sight movie showing, email info@walkingonwater.com

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29
Dec

Hawaii Filming and Outreach Trip Update

Hawaii Filming and Outreach Trip Update

What happens when the lives of 3 professional bull riders collide with the lives of 3 professional big wave surfers? In Hawaii we found out as we filmed for our new movie (Title of movie not decided yet.)! We want to thank everyone who supported us in prayer and finances to make this trip happen to the North Shore of Oahu. Everything we were hoping would happened definitely happened and in much better ways than we expected. God always does more than we can imagine! The bull riders Thad Newell, Jake Nelson, and Zane Cook could not believe they were in Hawaii for the first time in their lives! The four professional big wave surfers Nathan Fletcher, Aaron Gold, Magno Passos, and Derek Rabelo (Blind Surfer) could not believe they were riding bulls in Hawaii and were surprised to find out that the two sports have so many similarities. The bull riding arena was located where Jurassic Park was filmed so it was beautiful to say the least. The surfers and bull riders attended the Beyond Sight movie showing that was held across the street from Pipeline where the Gospel was presented to a packed out crowd. One of the highlights of the trip was meeting Levi Rita and Albert Silva who are Hawaiian Cowboys who took such good care of us and truly showed us what "Aloha" means. We were given access to ride horses on their private ranch overlooking Sunset Beach that most locals have never had the pleasure of seeing. This new documentary is going to be such a powerful movie! Our next steps are to raise the funds needed to finish the movie and to film the bull riders in Oklahoma during their BRI bull riding finals in January. We want to thank the athletes, filmer Sean Marin, producer Sheri Smith, producer Faith Fay, and Swanson Family for all their hard work on set!

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