corey dylan bruins
Jesus follower. Communications enthusiast. Passionate about using creative excellence to reach people and build relationships.
I run a creative firm, corcillum creative.
I DJ weddings, parties and events.
I connect with people because everyone has an incredible and interesting story.
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- "I could care less about memorizing the verses. I wanted to win. I was the best damn kid in Awana. Easily the most decorated."
- I would really like Facebook to update their app and make it so that things take less than 5 hours to load. Goodness.
- One thing I could do by myself for hours is watch people. People are SO interesting.
- Sometimes the best thing is to close your eyes, take a deep breath and remember how good God is.
- "Hopefully the economy will get better. It seems like everyone is walking around aimlessly. It sucks." -lady yelling to me across @starbucks
- Hung out with @kelli__marie for a bit at Moonlight... kinda miss being on the stage. Live theater is just so great.
- Lunch with Brandon :) (@ The Counter) http://t.co/HsddxEz1
- "Food is essential to life; therefore, make it good." -S. Truett Cathy. A man after my own heart.
- @MichaelFortney… true. Right now he's looking for an Atari emulator.
- It's great when one guy is hogging up ALL of the bandwidth @starbucks because he's downloading 5 torrents. Thank goodness for tethering.
- One of my favorite things to do is hang out, eat, reminisce & ponder the future with @Brittany_Lyn_. I absolutely love her.
- Thank God for another beautiful day in SD!
- Jesus' ministry was making disciples who make disciples by the power of the Gospel through individual relationships. Let's go do that!
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- If there's one thing I appreciate...it's delicious, wholesome, well-made food.
- Hard to Love by Lee Brice #nowplaying
- San Diego summer nights. Unbeatable.
- Creativity is a muscle and today I worked it out to death. Time to rest and refuel.
- It's like walking down memory lane. @ New Community Church http://t.co/yrdcbvWp
- Sometimes all it takes is a simple smile to make someone's day :)
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- This Is Country Music by Brad Paisley
- Friends We Won't Forget by Lee Brice
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- May 18, 12
In 2004, When I was 14 years old I attended an outreach event at New Community Church called Backstage In The Greenroom. It was fantastic. There were funny ‘SNL style’ videos, a halfway-decent worship band and a place to re-boot my social life.
So when the preacher shared the Gospel and asked if I wanted to accept Jesus so that I could go to heaven. I figured I might as well!
And so it is, that I am, essentially, a product of the guest-friendly, consumer-driven, programmatic model of church.
Fast forward to 2007. I was offered a job at New Community as the Multimedia Producer. My core responsibility would be to produce the very outreach event that led me to Jesus in 2004, Backstage In The Greenroom. For 2 solid seasons, I poured my heart and soul into Backstage, producing dozens of shows. This eventually brought me to a full time position on staff at New Community.
As Backstage slowly fizzled out (with the natural ebb-and-flow of things that interest teenagers), I dug my roots into several other ministries at New Community and I began to spend more and more time on our main Worship Services. I was slowly phased out of youth ministry altogether and I eventually moved into a position that I helped to create, Director of Service Production & Communications.
I have been serving in this capacity for the last 18 months and as of January 1st, 2012 I will be resigning from my position and following God’s calling to a new season.
I wrote that in December of last year before I finished my time on staff at New Community Church. The plan was to finish it by writing a nice, candy-coated version of how my theology of ministry had changed. The blog even had a nice title, “theology on the move”.
For a million reasons (excuses) I’ve kept silent over the past 5 months since I left New Community about what has been happening in my heart and in my life. I have half a dozen blog drafts written that I never finished because I was too afraid to post them.
Tonight, God hit me over the head with a hammer and reminded me that I’m not here to make people like me (or agree with me, for that matter). I’m not here to be ashamed of what He’s taught me. I’m here to follow the God of creation, to serve Him, to make disciples of His people and to unashamedly proclaim the truths that He’s taught me and the tensions in which He’s placed me.
This blog has been dead for the past 5 months because every time I sit down to write I can think of someone that I’m going to offend, or controversy that might rise up, or, or, or. No more of that. The last blog I wrote was about part 1 of God’s calling for my life for this season which was to start a business. I never wrote about part 2 because sharing could potentially cause a bit of a raucous.
For the better half of 2 years, I helped rebuild New Community’s cornerstone ministry, the Sunday services, from the ground up. Today, not only do I no longer believe in the job that I performed, I don’t believe in the effectiveness of the ministry toward Jesus’ calling for ‘the church’.
This is a huge topic. There’s a lot to explore, process and share. I’m excited to continue to write about this journey.
Hold on, dear friends. Shit’s about to get real.
- Mar 12, 12
I’m the see it, want it, get it right away kinda guy. So, when God called me to leave my full time job in ministry and wait on Him for further instructions, I wasn’t sure how that was going to go. I just knew I had to be patient and wait on God.
This wasn’t my first time around the block with being patient about big life/season changes. Reflecting on the last time I deviated from His course, he was quick to get me right back where He wanted me. So, I resolved that by the grace of God, I would wait.
I communicated my intention to resign around mid-October, and I agreed to continue working up until the end of 2011. I had two and a half months of impatiently fidgeting around, having no clue what was to come on January 1, 2012. I had nothing waiting for me besides a freakishly empty calendar. I continued to pray through what, ultimately, was a trust issue, and then God brought me an opportunity.
A dear friend of mine is a fantastic wedding photographer and she and her husband needed some help re-branding and re-invigorating their business as they were planning to pursue a new direction. I’ve got the skill-set to help them, so I agreed to take them on as a freelance client starting on January 1. The project’s end date was undefined at that time, but at least I knew that I would have work waiting for me on the other side of 2011.
Over the past 2 months, God has slowly been revealing more of His plan to me. So far, He’s given me a clear, 2-part calling.
Part 1: Start a business.
I fought this for awhile for a lot of reasons. I told God that I’m not good enough, not capable enough, not smart enough and too young. I also explained to God that starting a business is a really prideful thing, and I didn’t want to pursue anything that could potentially inflate my ego. God showed me that I was being an extremist on both sides (which, Ecclesiastes says that ‘Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes’) and that I needed to rest in His grace on all counts. Easier said than done of course, but God’s calling was clear nonetheless.
So, as I continued to explore the concept of starting a business, I realized that I had essentially already started a business! I was acting as a creative firm & business consultant for my photographer friends. The core of my business had already been established and I was already serving my first client. I took a step back to look at the heart behind my work so far to help give me a launching point for this new venture.
I concluded that at the heart of my business is the relationship that I build with my clients and that the creative assets, business recommendations and other tangible outcomes are results of real relationships built with real people.
While I enjoy creating websites, designing graphics, printing business cards, scripting promo videos, giving business advice and creating social media strategies, my heart’s core passion is for people. As it turns out, that skill-set fused with my passion for people creates a compelling & contagious business strategy.
My ideal client is not the person who’s got 5 describing words, a favorite color and a need for a new logo. My ideal client is someone who needs someone to rally around their vision with them, believe in what they are doing and give them the creative assets necessary for succeeding.
Out of this radical, relationship-focused concept comes Part 1 of God’s calling, Corcillum Creative. I’m excited to see where God takes this business in this new season! Right now, Corcillum is just getting started, but I’ve got some exciting projects on the horizon and I can’t wait to showcase all that I’ve been working on.
I want to finish this up with some action items for those of you that are excited along with me!1. Follow @corcillum on twitter and like the facebook page. These connections will be the best way to keep up with new projects and everything Corcillum related.2. Check out the video at corcillumcreative.com which explains more of my vision for Corcillum.
3. If we’ve worked together professionally in any capacity, I’d greatly appreciate it if you wrote a quick recommendation on my linkedin.
4. If you know of someone who has creative needs of any sort, pass along my email & phone number (corey@corcillumcreative.com / 760.920.6160) and let them know that I’d like to buy them a coffee & chat about their ideas.
That’s it for now! Look forward to another post in the next few weeks about Part 2 of God’s calling for this season… it’s incredible and I’m excited to share it with you.
- Jan 24, 12
St. Augustine wrote in his famous work, Confessions, some amazing thoughts on friendship.“There were other things which occupied my mind in the company of friends: to make conversation, to share a joke, to perform mutual acts of kindness, to read together well-written books, to share in trifling and in serious matters, to disagree though without animosity—just as a person debates with himself—and in the very rarity of disagreement to find the salt of normal harmony, to teach each other something or to learn from one another, to long with impatience for those absent, to welcome them with gladness on their arrival.”
- Jan 14, 12
A few days ago this video popped up in my facebook feed, I watched it, liked the gist of the kid’s message and shared the vid to my facebook friends. Little did I know that over the course of the following few days, this video would spread like viral wildfire and the blogosphere would explode with criticism, nitpicking the theological discrepancies in the author’s statements.
Take a look at the video if you haven’t seen it yet.
I love the word purpose. Goodness gracious the idea of purpose in general just makes me really giddy. Whenever we set out to examine any submission to culture, we must first step back and look at the purpose, or heart, behind whatever it is we are examining.
I read a post (which happened to be posted by another friend of mine on facebook) on a website that I follow regularly, The Gospel Coalition, tonight that stirred in me a desire to respond to the entire debacle over this young man’s submission to Christian culture (or sub-culture, really).
Those who are rallying in support of the video are, for the most part, as Kevin DeYoung states in his post on The Gospel Coalition, ‘younger Christians’. DeYoung then poses the question, “It sounds good, looks good, and feels good. But is it true? That’s the question we must always ask?”
Ah, but is that the question we must always ask? It’s at that statement that the believer needs to step back, pause for a moment, and think. When we ask ‘Is it true?’ what exactly does ‘it’ refer to? For DeYoung and other critics ‘it’ refers to the statements at face value. The fact of the matter is, we have to examine the heart behind a statement to truly assess it’s truth or lack thereof.
In context, Jeff Bethke, who authored and spoke the poem in the video, submitted a modern piece of art depicting a piece of the Christian life, to culture. DeYoung criticizes the fact that it ‘sounds good, looks good, and feels good’ but fails to acknowledge that Bethke was not attempting to submit a complete picture of the Christian story to his audience. In fact, sometimes when we are communicating to an audience, it’s important to use words that your audience understands, even if they aren’t following the dictionary definition.
For example, another criticism of this video spent the majority of his post criticizing & analyzing Bethke’s use of the word ‘religion’. I’m not going to rehash that discussion, except for to say that I understand that in the bible Jesus never rebukes ‘religion’ at the face value of the word. I also understand that in post-modern culture (both within, and especially outside the church), the words ‘religion’ and ‘religious’ do not have a positive connotation. In fact, most Christians today understand those who are described as ‘religious’ to be people who are extremist and Pharisaical (interesting that the author of the aforementioned post is a self-proclaimed Orthodox Christian Church Minister).
So, to those arguing Bethke’s diction, invest your energies elsewhere and work on starting a counter-revolution against post-modern culture’s re-defining of words. (Good luck! P.S. Check out this book)
Additionally, (but really first and foremost), let’s look to the Bible. Google ‘biblical contradictions’ and click through the first few hits. If you are a believer and you’ve never done that before, this is a good exercise for you. At face value, the bible contradicts itself left and right.
Take marriage for example, in 1 Corinthians, Paul states that ‘it is better not to marry’. Elsewhere in the Bible, Paul and numerous other authors talk about the importance of marriage. God even set marriage up as a picture of Christ’s relationship to the church! Lesson learned: we can’t take anything we read, see or hear at face value, we MUST understand the PURPOSE, the AUDIENCE and ultimately, the CONTEXT.
Paul’s anti-marriage sentiments in 1 Corinthians were targeted, direct and contextualized for a specific audience. We have to understand that Bethke’s piece was targeted, direct and contextualized for a specific audience in the same way.
So back up, chill out, calm down and remember that it’s all about loving God and loving others anyway.
- Dec 02, 11
Confession: I’m a huge fan of new school country music.
As I was driving to Starbucks tonight Lee Brice’s ‘Love Like Crazy’ played on the radio. It’s songs like this one that put me in a good mood, pull my mind off of all the things in life that don’t matter and remind me of what’s important.
Some simple lessons straight from the chorus of ‘Love Like Crazy’:
BE A BEST FRIEND
Notice that it doesn’t say ‘have a best friend’ or ‘find a best friend’, no, it says BE a best friend. Be selfless and sacrificial in your relationships. Look for ways to serve others before yourself.TELL THE TRUTH
Plain and simple. Even when it’s hard, honesty is always the best policy.OVERUSE ‘I LOVE YOU’
I love this line because it reminds me of the simple power in those three words. Next time you hang out with a friend or family member who you really care about, look them in the eye and remind them that you love them. Sometimes that can be awkward, but what’s the worst that can happen?GO TO WORK
And don’t just go to work but…
DO YOUR BEST
At everything that you do! Be a man or woman who stands behind your work. Be proud of who you are and what you do. Whether you push paper in an office, fly fighter aircraft for the Air Force or preach the Gospel on Sundays – own it and ROCK at it.DON’T OUTSMART YOUR COMMON SENSE
God gave you the gift of the Holy Spirit for a reason. Listen to the Spirit’s whisper in your heart when you are thinking about making a rash decision. Have fun & take chances but always let the Spirit guide you.NEVER LET YOUR PRAYIN’ KNEES GET LAZY
I couldn’t have said this better myself. I love the imagery of getting down on your knees. Do that sometimes! We need God so much and the simple act of getting on our knees can help us remember that we are nothing without Him.LOVE LIKE CRAZY
Amen. So simple and yet we don’t do it. Figure out what’s in the way! Are you scared of the outcome? Are you constantly looking in the mirror and serving yourself? People around you need you to love them, and God calls you to do just that. So do it. - Nov 26, 11
In 2004, When I was 14 years old I attended an outreach event at New Community Church called Backstage In The Greenroom. It was fantastic. There were funny ‘SNL style’ videos, a halfway-decent worship band and a place to re-boot my social life.
So when the preacher shared the Gospel and asked if I wanted to accept Jesus so that I could go to heaven. I figured I might as well!
At that moment I started a relationship with Jesus that would change my life in an incredible way. I also started a relationship with New Community Church.
Fast forward to 2007. I was offered a job at New Community as the Multimedia Producer. My core responsibility would be to produce the very outreach event that led me to Jesus in 2004, Backstage In The Greenroom. For 2 solid seasons, I poured my heart and soul into Backstage, producing dozens of shows and eventually bringing me to a full time position on staff at New Community.
As Backstage slowly fizzled out (with the natural ebb-and-flow of things that interest teenagers), I dug my roots into several other ministries at New Community and I began to spend more and more time on our main Worship Services. I was slowly phased out of youth ministry altogether and I eventually moved into a position that I helped to create, Director of Service Production & Communications.
I have been serving in this capacity for the last 18 months and as of January 1st, 2012 I will be resigning from my position and following God’s calling to a new season. I’m so excited.
In my 4 years at New Community, I’ve been so incredibly blessed to work with the most amazing staff and volunteer teams.
Dale, thanks for bringing me on staff 4 years ago and challenging me to become a better leader. Thanks to the elder board at New Community for believing in the need for my position. Dori, Lori, Rose, Debbie, CJ, James – you have taught me so much about what it means to serve on a church staff and work with a team. To my intern, assistant and friend, Brittany – you are so talented and it has been incredible to watch you grow as an editor and as a person. Colin, thanks for countless nights without sleep working on backstage videos and smashing lights in the midget closet. Stuart, thanks for being a mentor and friend. Chris Castillero, thanks for your countless hours of work in so many ministries, for teaching me that you can find awesome design elements at Big Lots and for valuing my opinion in all of our projects. Danielle, thank you for your incredible attention to detail and for everything you’ve done for our production team. Luke, you don’t know how blessed I have been to have one of my best friends two offices down from me, thanks for listening to me go on and on about stuff and for giving so many hours to my ministry when you have your own to run.
Additionally, I’d like to thank all of my volunteers for your countless hours of service. I love you all so much.
To everyone at New Community Church, it has been my pleasure to serve you and grow with you. I love your passion for God and His mission.
So, where am I going next? I’ve spent the last month in a constant conversation with God, breaking down the plethora of options in front of me and figuring out where He wants me. Here’s what I know so far:
• In the next few years, I’m called to finish school and get my BA in Communications with a minor in Spanish.• Starting this Spring, I’ll jump back into classes at my local junior college and work on my transfer requirements (I currently have 74 units, I just need to work on specific Comm transfer reqs).
• Eventually, I’d like to transfer to a CSU in Southern California (but since that’s at least 2 semesters away, I’ll let God take the wheel when the time comes).
• Starting in January, I’m going to start consulting part-time for my dear friends, Keary and Justin Cheney as they re-launch and re-brand their photography business. I’m excited to partner with them and consult on business direction as well as create a fresh brand identity for their business.
• This summer I will head back to my childhood summer camp, Camp Marston and work on full-time staff for the summer as a coordinator. I was able to work as a counselor during the summer of ’08 and I’m ready to head back to camp in a leadership capacity. I’m stoked for my opportunity to work with campers and have a positive impact on staff culture.
• Additionally, I’ve been getting tons of referrals for my DJ services – so I’m officially available to DJ your wedding or event. Check out coreyd.com (under construction).
Other than that, I’m just waiting on God for more direction. I’m stepping out in faith trusting that He’ll provide the right opportunities at the right times, and I know He will.
I would so appreciate you coming alongside me in prayer as I make this huge transition in January. Check back here for more updates! Please also be in prayer for the team at New Community as they consider options for the open position.
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One of my best friends recently landed an internship with a company in L.A. called Comedy Juice. Among other things, Comedy Juice produces College Comedy nights at various venues around L.A.
Kelli’s internship starts in a few months when she begins her last semester at Azusa Pacific, a Christian university; but her first task started at the beginning of this week. The company gave Kelli a promo code that enabled people to obtain free tickets to tonight’s show and Kelli was supposed to promote the heck out of the show and get a bunch of people there.
Kelli loves Jesus and has a lot of friends (at home in San Diego and at school in Azusa) who love Jesus. Comedy Juice is not a Christian company and is in no way influenced by Christian values or morals. The show was going to be dirty (whatever that means).
No doubt about it, I was going to be there – if for nothing else than to support Kelli. While I would have had no issues going alone… I figured I would invite a few people along with me. I started by inviting a few close friends who happen to be around on Tuesday afternoon at work. Then I sent a txt out to our entire group of college-age people. I honestly hadn’t processed the fact that the show was going to be ‘dirty’ and that I was inviting a bunch of unassuming Jesus-lovers, most of whom don’t spend time exposing themselves to the hardcore ‘dirt’ of the world (and some of whom could be offended by it).
As the night drew closer, a few more folks jumped on board and decided to go. 3 car-fulls of us (14 people in all in our group) herded up to Comedy Juice’s 18+, Thursday night comedy show at the Ice House in Pasadena. It wasn’t until our pit-stop in Fullerton that I fully comprehended what I had done. I enticed a group of college-age people with a FREE comedy show, but I didn’t tell them anything about what kind of comedy. No one asked. I would never lead them astray? Or would I? Where exactly is ‘astray’? I didn’t even think once about communicating that it might be dirty & offensive.
So at the gas station, I kinda started getting the word out. I wanted people to be at least semi-prepared for a night of nastiness.
30 minutes later and 10 minutes (fashionably) late, we pulled up to the Ice House. It felt like a nightclub. That makes sense; it is a nightclub.
The host(ess) was on stage as we were being seated. She was doing a short intro act, and sure enough, it was pure nasty. (She also happens to be one of Kelli’s bosses). If you know me, you know that I don’t get embarrassed easily. The word ‘embarrassed’ hardly describes the emotion I was feeling. I kind of felt like I was an agent of Satan, leading my friends straight into a vat of sin.
That last sentence speaks to what is probably a character flaw of mine. I often feel more responsible than I should (?) for people. For their enjoyment of an event that I sorta-planned, for their spiritual well being (as if Jesus can’t handle it), for their financial ability to pay for the 2 drink minimum that they didn’t know was coming, for how much time they are ‘wasting’ being out late on a Thursday listening to dirty comics. On a larger scale, I am constantly taking the burden for people’s _____ in life, just because I feel like someone should and no one is. I don’t give people enough credit for being the adults that they are. Or do I? I digress.
As I settled into the show, and into the fact that we were going to be here for the next 2 hours whether they (or I) liked it or not, my heart turned from myself to the other people in the room. To the people (the real people, that God created, by the way) that I hadn’t invited. To the comedians who are trying to make an honest living by making people laugh. To the audience members who are enjoying a night out with friends or significant others. To Kelli’s new coworkers and bosses. To a whole bunch of people who I claim I have dedicated my life to serving. People who are broken and helpless without Jesus. People who will never come to know him if we [the hands and feet] don’t go out and show them who He is. Can that, sometimes, be as simple as showing up?
I thought about a txt that Kelli sent me earlier in the day that her boss sent to her. ‘Not sure what you are doing but it’s working. 22 with your promo code. Great work!’ I thought about a conversation that Kelli might have with her boss later. He might say, ‘So who were all of those people who came tonight?’, and she might say something like, ‘Oh! 14 of them are a bunch of my friends from my home church in Vista!’. How much of a testimony is that statement? No really, I’m wondering, how much of a testimony is it?
Speaking of testimony. How were we supposed to act?
Should we ignore it all with our head down because ‘it’s just so awful’ and we can’t take it; maybe we need to visibly show our disapproval. That’s probably what Jesus did when he had dinner with tax collectors and sinners. Yeah, probably.
But are we allowed to laugh at jokes that are dirty? What if they’re funny? What does that communicate, if anything?
Is there a middle ground? Yes, and it’s personal.
I spent a few minutes during the show chatting with Kelli. She said, ‘Basically, this is my mission field!’. Basically.
We watched a number of comedians throughout the 2 hour show. Lots of dirty jokes and nasty content. Some super hilarious and not-so-dirty stuff.
I know this question is ‘huge’ on so many levels, but I’m curious: what are your thoughts? Do the ends justify the means in this case? Was it worth it? Now that I know exactly what the shows are like, should I ever invite a group of Jesus-lovin’ college-age people to one again? Should I ever go again?
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What happened to your eyes? I saw them wander just like mine. So how did we come to see so differently after all this time?
- Mom walks in the door...
- Mom: What are you doing? Laundry?
- Me: (pause while I read a txt)
- Mom: Hello? Do you have a speech impediment?
- Me: Yes mom. I'm doing laundry.
Like a rolling stone, like a runaway train. No turning back, no more yesterdays. My heart is free. No chains on me!
God you raise me up, up from the grave. With the cross before me, I’m on my way. My heart is free. No chains on me!
- how old are you?
- Cashier at Zumiez: So man, how old are you?
- Me: 20.
- Cashier: Really? You look like you're at least 25.
- Me: Oh yeah?
- Cashier: Yeah. So, how old am I?
- Me: Umm. 21 and 9 months.
- Cashier: How about 17 and 9 months.
- Me: I'll take it!
- coffee is yummy
One of my two ‘idols’ for the year is coffee. My ‘idols’ are things that God convicted me about that sometimes take the place of Him. Not in a literal sense, I haven’t started re-writing worship songs ‘How Great is My Coffee’. Just that if someone were to nonchalantly ask me to give up completely on drinking coffee… I wouldn’t want to do it.
That’s an idol, for sure.
So I’m working on not ‘needing’ coffee so much. So far, so good! This past week, I’ve really gone to God before each time I wanted to drive down to Starbucks. It works! It sounds silly, but all I have to do is go to God and say ‘God… do I need coffee right now?’. He hasn’t said yes at all in this past week, except for this morning!
And right now, my Iced Grande Coffee in a Venti cup with extra ice and no room or classic is absolutely fabulous. But… if someone were to snatch it off of my office desk. I’d be just fine :)
A blessing in disguise
Turns to wonder in broad daylight
And the ocean could fill this room
but I’d only notice youA pleasant kind of surprise
Like finding out that
chivalry is still alive
Or that hearts can open wide
At the drop of a hat
or the blink of an eyeBut all the love in the world
could never change this
How afraid
love
makes usBut I held my breath
I closed my eyes
I jumped right in
to this dream, I wasn’t dreamin’Impossible was
hard to findBut it’s standing right in front of me
And last time I checked…This heart was closed so tight
It just needed a little light
And a hundred suns could shine
I’d only notice youAnd love can grow so fast
until before you know it
you’re taking your last breath
But at least we won’t go it alone
They’ll be light in both our eyes
at the end of the roadBut all the fears in this world
could never
change this
How invincible
love
makes usSo I held my breath
I closed my eyes
I jumped right in to
this dream, I wasn’t dreamin
Impossible was hard to find
But it’s standing right in front of me
And last time I checked…It was
Everything I wanted
A perfect combination
Of
love
and
grace
and
fear
and
faithMy blessing
in disguise
In broad daylight
The ocean could fill
this room
I’d only
notice
you
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- Starbucks30 Main St.
- The Yellow Deli315 E Broadway
- Chipotle Mexican Grill30 Main St
- Panera Bread401 Vista Village Drive
- Starbucks30 Main St.
- The Counter1923 Calle Barcelona #148
- Chick-fil-A3475 Marron Rd
- The Curbside Cafe307 Main St.
- Starbucks Coffee2205 Melrose
- BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse5613 Paseo del Norte
- Starbucks2708 Loker Ave W
- Specialty's Cafe & Bakery4330 La Jolla Village Drive
- Starbucks3702 Plaza Drive
- Croutons9254 Scranton Road, Suite 103
- The Yellow Deli315 E Broadway
- Chipotle Mexican Grill30 Main St
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- Production & Communications SpecialistReligious Institutions | Greater San Diego Area, USSummaryThrough my experience in both subordinate and supervisory creative production roles, I have built paralleling skill sets in both production and people/team management. My passion for effective communication provides a strong foundation for my ability to produce both professional and creative print, digital and web media from concept to completion.
After working in both mainstream and Christian entertainment as well as spending 4+ years on full-time staff at a local church, I'm excited to continue to expand my experience in production and communications.Specialties: communications strategy, team development, media production, event management and production, live production environmentsExperience- 2011 - PresentAssistant / Hansen Photography, LLC
- Jan 2010 - PresentOwner / DJ / dj coreydI DJ weddings, parties, corporate events and any other event you can imagine.
- Sept 2008 - PresentCEO / Creative Director / Corcillum Creative
- Jun 2008 - PresentProgram Coordinator / YMCA of San Diego CountyI worked as full-time, overnight program-staff from June-August 2008. I currently work special weekend events as needed.
- Nov 2007 - Dec 2011Director of Service Production & Communications / New Community ChurchI produce all of New Community's services and events including all FOH environments and BOH systems as well as Guest Service, Production and Sound teams. I also oversee all communications on behalf of the organization and manage our I.S. infrastructure.
- Jul 2008 - Feb 2009Model / Abercrombie & FitchI worked on the floor in a Hollister store, providing customer service and keeping the store looking excellent.
- Sept 2007 - Feb 2008Production Associate / Solutions Business ImagingI gained valuable experience in the print production process, including variable data mailings, large-format printing, etc.
- May 2007 - Aug 2007Creative Director / Tangent EntertainmentIn addition to video segment production, I created a brand identity for the primary asset of Tangent, CrossRockTV and manged our web & social media presence.
- Aug 2004 - Feb 2005Intern / Tangent EntertainmentI created written and video content for Tangent's primary asset at the time, rant n rave.
Education-
2006 - 2012Palomar CollegeCommunications, Spanish
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2004 - 2007Rancho Buena Vista High SchoolHigh School Diploma in General Studies
Activities: Speech & Debate, Sports Management
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Interests:digital media, communications, journalism, snowboarding
