Midnight Oil Productions
www.midnightoilproductions.com
Len is a nationally recognized pioneer in communicating the gospel to digital culture. His passion is high-quality, theologically grounded, experiential worship that goes far beyond an audio-visual approach to meet people at a human level using the digital language of film, television and computers.
A frequent seminar leader, Len has spoken to thousands of church leaders since 1996 on harnessing digital media for ministry. His latest book, co-authored with close friend Jason Moore, is Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (Abingdon Press, 2002).
From 1995-2000 Len served as media minister of Ginghamsburg Church. During this time, Len was part of a worship design team whose efforts tripled attendance to over 3000 people a weekend in worship. By mixing theory and practice in a weekly living lab, Len created an effective model for media ministry, as well as the empowerment of a team of highly committed volunteers trained on technical systems he oversaw.
Len is also the author of the best-seller The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry (Abingdon Press, 1999).
In 2000, Len co-founded Lumicon Digital Productions, a non-profit arm of UMR Communications whose purpose is to be a comprehensive teaching center for assisting churches in the ministry of digital culture. After 2 years of casting vision and producing high quality worship resources for churches through Lumicon, Len and Jason established Midnight Oil Productions.
In addition, Len and Jason have authored and/or been featured in several articles for publications including The Ooze, Homiletics, Next Wave, Rev., Technologies for Worship, Wired, Worship Matters, Your Church, Church and Worship Technology, and various newspapers around North America. Jason and Lens digital productions from Ginghamsburg and Lumicon have received several Telly Awards for excellence in video production, including a coveted Silver Telly for their Lumicon Christmas campaign, A Promise Born.
Len holds a M.A. in Religious Communication, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH 1995; a B.A. in Communication, McMurry University, Abilene, TX 1992 (summa cum laude); and did Master's course study at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 1992-1993.
Len and his musician wife Shar are the proud parents of Kaylyn, Christian and Joslyn.
