Christianity is on a Decline in America...

William Barker is a former teacher of the Hebrew Faith, he considers himself to be a Yehudim, or a descendent of the hebrew people of the bible.  He does not believe in Christianity, his interview gave me incite from a totally different point of view.

This is Ivory Council, a PH D candidate for Environmental Science at Florida A & M University.  She had a very unique aspect of Christianity and Religion.

This is Father Robert O'loughlin, A parish clergy from the Holy Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church.  He gave great incite on his views on the Decline of Christianity and where he believe Christianity is heading in America.

This is an image that the the Leader of the Orthodox Church sat in, I thought it was a beautiful image.

Today Jabre and I went to a Greek Orthodox Church, what in experience it was.  We went there to get B Roll.  It was so different from any other church I had ever been to.  The designs on the church reminded me of the Mid Evil times.  They had people dressed up in robes that a king would wear and they were caring tall sticks around that looked like torches, I was confused on why they were doing that.  At times I felt a Little uncomfortable because of my belief system, but I constantly reminded myself to think like a journalist and keep my personal opinions away.  I will be interviewing Father Robert the Rabi of the church on Thursday. 

"The Holy Mother of The Greek Orthodox Church"

Today I interviewed four random people who discussed where they thought Christianity in America was heading.  One guy talked about how he used to be a very firm believer of Christianity but as time went on he became an Atheist, but recently converted back, I thought that was really interesting and useful for my topic.  I also interviewed a Professors that teaches religion and he mentioned  that Black people are more spiritually inclined than white people and added that the decline in religion are mostly coming from the younger Caucasian people.  A girl named Emily Kent, who is a southern Baptist said that she felt that people of today’s society doesn’t really hold on to the values of Christianity compared how it used to be.  On the other my last interviewee felt that Christianity is still holding on strong and headed in a good direction.

Today we are going out to get some B roll for the project, this b roll is from one of the people who will be interviewed for the documentary. His name is Will Barker, he changed his faith from Christianity to Hebrew Isralites 4 years ago. Today is one of the feast days of a celebration that they follow called feast of the tabernacle. Where they sleep in tents for 7 days to imitates what there ancestors had to go through when they were had to sleep outside in tents as they traveled on a journey to freedom according to the bible. When we went there no one was home so we just got some b roll of the scenery. There were 3 tents set up in his back yard, inside the tents were like mini bedrooms filled with big comforters, pillows, one even had a night Lamp inside. Monday we will return to Barkers house to get actual footage of the Isralites cooking, praying and celebrating the feast days being over.

Today I went to a Garden called “iGrow What Ever You Like” I went there because I know it is a place where a lot of people who are very educated on religion volunteers their every Friday.  When I went there it was a mixture of people from college students, to students from K-12.  They were all helping out on the farm, helping plant fruits and vegetables, making snacks from the freshly grown food and having a great time.  I went up to one of the adults who was supervising the Farm and told him that I needed to find people that were willing to talk about religion on camera.  I explained to him what my documentary was about and with excitement he began to tell me his view on where he believed Christianity/ religion was heading in America.  As we spoke, the other adults on the farm overheard us and decided to join in the conversation.  I asked all of them if they would be willing to do short interviews elaborating on what we had discussed and even though I went there only expecting to get one or two people to interview; I found five people willing to be interviewed.  Because of all their different views of my topic it will really help give my project depth.

Me and Jabre met up and discussed the outline I came up with for the project. She she helped me think of some potential people to interview for the porject. We decided to interview some one who doesn't believe in Christianity, some one who changed their faith, and some one who still stands strong in Christianity beliefs. I plan to do more research so we can get started shooting.

Today I texted Jabria to schedule an appointment to discuss the project. We agreed trhatvsunday at 5:30 would work best for the both of us. I plan to show her my outline for he project and get some additional ideas from her.

Today Proffessor Jones paired our class up with our partners for the Multimedia projects, my topic "where is religion going" was chosen to be produced which made me vary happy. I took Jabari's name, number and email address down so we can began to plan for our project. She was vary nice and cooperative.