2024/25 Tipping Point Campaign
Rattle The Bones
INSPIRE FAITH and TRANSFORM LIVES
through storytelling
We’ve reached a tipping point
to release the next generation of good content creators.
3-Pillar Ministry Model
Simple - Scalable - Repeatable
Rattle the Bones strives to produce powerful stories from the frontlines of God’s Kingdom. Using a 3-Pillar Model, we are strategically focusing effort and resources to create a lean and scalable network of storytellers in unsung places around the world.
The goal is to TRAIN individuals through workshops and hands-on learning, to equip them with skills needed to master the art of content creation and story production, and to see them thrive in doing so.
As trained freelance REPORTERS, people are dispatched to document firsthand what God’s transformative work looks like – in their own nations.
Finally, our NEWSROOM brings it all together by crafting and distributing these stories to inspire, encourage, and mobilize others around the world to take heart and engage – wherever our stories find them.
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Reporting
- Tipping Point Campaign (ongoing)
- Recruit media team
- Prep coverage for Tawi-Tawi Outreach, Philippines (Nov. ’24)
- Bataraza, Palawan Medical Outreach (Nov. ’23)
- Balabac/Mangsee Islands Medical Outreach (March ’24)
- Cuyo Island Medical Outreach (Aug. ’24)
- YWAM Together media team (Sept. ’24)
- Tawi-Tawi, Philippines Medical Outreach (Nov. ’24)
- Hone production workflow (ongoing)
- Develop network with regional storytellers to increase and diversify content creation.
- Mentor/equip new regional talent
- 2025 YWAM Ships Medical Outreach schedule (tba)
Newsroom
- IG/FB posts (ongoing)
- Upcoming Features: “Mangyan Miracle”, “Well holes and Wheelchairs”
- “Balikbayan” YWAM Ships PH Video
- March 2024 Outreach (Cuyo Islands)
- YWAM Ships PH website/email system upgrades
- “Love Beyond” video release
- Mokpokpo School promo, Togo, Africa
- Feature: “Extend Your Reach – GIDA”
- Recruit Audio/Visual editor
- 2025 Editorial Calendar
- Develop Manila-based production studio
- Expand editorial regional coverage
Training
- The BPJ online (a collaboration with YWAM Kona)
- Media Light collaboration
- 1:1 mentoring ongoing
- Creative Media Course instructor, University of Nations, Kona, HI (Jan/Feb, 2024)
- Backpack Journalist Workshop, Philippines (August)
- YWAM Together mentoring (Sept)
- Media Light lecture, Chiang Rai, Thailand (tba)
- Creative Media Course instructor, University of Nations, Kona, HI (Jan/Feb, 2025)
- Backpack Journalist Workshop #2, Cape Town, S.Africa, summer ’25
- Backpack Journalist #3, Philippines, Aug. ’25
- Media Light collaboration (tba)
Release a new generation
of Content Creators
TIPPING POINT BREAKDOWN
It's a 5-slice pie...
1) Equipment
In our line of work, equipment is "well-loved". When we are not fighting the elements, we battle obsolescence in a rapidly changing world of tech.
+ laptop/s, field recording gear, edit bay, mics, software licenses, redundant SSD drives, etc
2) Operations
It is time to establish a Philippine production studio that will provide a central studio with a decent edit bay and a small sound booth to produce mini-docs and polished work that needs higher production value.
+ Office space, furniture, workstation gear, studio lighting, audio treatment, RAID archival system
3) Freelancers
We raise our own ministry funds, but it is ridiculously hard for young people in a developing country to enter ministry, let alone purchase gear. To that end, we plan to help ambitious members of our global media team to provide for their families while on assignment for Rattle The Bones.
+ $300/submission, + video editor, + other specialists
4) T&L Expense
Definitely the biggest slice of the pie because life on the road often involves air, land and sea. We always book ultra-economy fares, however there are only so many shortcuts one can take.
+ Airfare, accomodations, food, ground transportation, local guides/translators, etc.
5) Cost of Living
It has been four (4) years since we have addressed personal support. Over that time, the banks have been winning and inflation is up, leaving us about 15% shy of a modest personal budget to cover overall cost of living expenses and health care.
