Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

Katie Miller: Sight & Sound Theatres | Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

June 20, 2025 | S E | 11:33

Kirk Cameron is joined by Katie Miller of Sight & Sound Theatres about their ministry of bringing the Bible to life.

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Takeaways with Kirk Cameron | Katie Miller: Sight & Sound Theatres | Takeaways with Kirk Cameron | June 20, 2025

We want to welcome katie miller, director of brand development
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For sight and sound. this is a storytelling company passionate
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About bringing true stories of redemption to life on the stage
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And on screen, that reveal the power of the gospel. since its
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Beginning as a traveling multi-media show in 1976, sight
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And sound has inspired over 30 million people with stories from
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The pages of scripture and history. in 2020, it launched an
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Online streaming platform welcoming a new global audience
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From over 175 countries around the world. katie, i'm so excited
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To be talking with you.
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>> i'm so grateful to be here. thank you for taking time.
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>> sight and sound is amazing. it is stunning. it is brilliant
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And beautiful. i've been there several times in lancaster,
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Pennsylvania. can you describe it for people who have never
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Been there and don't know what it is?
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>> i sure can i at least try? it always feels like a little bit
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Of a hard thing. but you know, we are coming up on celebrating
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50 years and for the most part, we're known for the place where
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The bible comes to life on stage. so we stage bible stories
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In a big, spectacular way with a 300 foot wraparound stage, live
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Animals that go up and down the aisles, a cast of 50, and lots
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Of special effects. however, our heart is really to immerse
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Families and audiences in the heart of the story and the
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Message that comes to life right before their eyes from the
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Bible. so that's what our hope is.
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>> well, there's no way to overstate the impact of a
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Production that is held at sight and sound. for me as an actor. i
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Was there and thought to myself, this is like better than
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Broadway, and it's way bigger than broadway. literally, the
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Stage is like the width of 2 or 3 broadway stages. it is
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Massive. and i saw the play jesus with jesus there and a
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Cast of hundreds of characters while he's preaching the sermon
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On the mount. and i saw noah with the rain coming down and
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The flood and all of that was happening in the room with us, i
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Couldn't believe the way sight and sound pulled it off.
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>> oh, you're very kind and we are grateful for what we get to
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Do. we were chatting before we started, you know, i said, we
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Don't get to take credit for these stories. we just get to
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Tell them. and we get to work with really good material. like
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It's they're just fantastic stories to be able to tell.
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>> well, you're now celebrating 50 years of telling these life
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Giving, redemptive stories that show off the power of the
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Gospel. talk a little bit about the early days and the growth
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That you guys have seen.
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>> yeah, so my grandparents founded sight and sound back in
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1976 after actually, you know, i think it's the way the lord
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Often works in our lives, but after tragedy. so my grandfather
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Was a dairy farmer in lancaster, pennsylvania. he wanted to stay
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A dairy farmer. and he in his late teens had experienced a
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Tragedy. his mother died and his dad kind of came to him and
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Said, i don't think i want to do this anymore. i don't want to do
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Farming without your mom, so you need to find something else to
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Do. i just sold the family farm, and he found himself a newlywed
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Without a vocation, trying to find his way. and so he began to
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Rely on his creativity to make ends meet, and began traveling
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The nation with multimedia slideshows and eventually
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Settled in in lancaster, opened a theater and the rest is
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History. we like to say it set the stage from there, but over
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The last 50 years it's been quite a journey and today we now
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Have two theaters, one in lancaster, pennsylvania and
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Branson, missouri, and they're very similar to each other. they
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Do. the shows go back and forth between the two. we also have a
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Streaming platform and a new films division as well.
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>> this is so exciting. and the original sight and sound is
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Right in the middle of lancaster, pennsylvania, of all
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Places. it's right there in the heart of amish country. and so
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As you're going to this broadway stage on steroids, you're
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Passing horses and buggies, and then when you get there, there
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Are there is this amazing fragrance in the air that can
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Only be honey coated roasted almonds.
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>> yeah.
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>> they are. it is intoxicating.
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>> it really is. and it's so funny because it's like we do
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These big, beautiful, spectacular shows and people are
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Like, tell me about the almonds.
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>> yeah. now, i also know that this is the second year that
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Sight and sound is broadcasting live into movie theaters around
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The country. yeah. so if you can't go to sight and sound,
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Sight and sound is now coming to your neighborhood. talk to us
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About what inspired you to make this move.
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>> yeah. so noah is on stage in lancaster this year and it's its
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30th anniversary. and up until we did noah back in 1995, we had
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Been doing revue style shows, multimedia shows, and my
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Grandfather is very innovated and had this crazy idea to do a
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Larger than life bible story. and he wanted to do noah and he
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Loves to tell the story. people, all of his team said, i don't
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Think it can be done, glenn. and he said, i think it can. let's
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Try.
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>> we can.
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>> do this. we can do this. and i remember, like, i remember
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Being a 11 year old standing in the theater just going, i don't
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Know what we just did. i was standing inside this ark with
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Hundreds of animals around me, and it really did. it was a
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Moment for us in sight and sound history to say, this is what
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We're called to do, like bringing the bible to life on
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Stage. and we've never looked back. so we've been doing bible
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Stories ever since. and this year is it's 30 years since it
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First premiered. we refreshed the whole show. we are sold out.
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It has been. we are just overwhelmed. we're so grateful.
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And we said, okay, we've got to do something to celebrate this
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Show. so we are bringing it into movie theaters with a true live
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Broadcast and then a bunch of encore performances as well. to
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Celebrate its 30th year.
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>> this is so cool. what a great opportunity for people to bring
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Their families into theaters and see a live theater production.
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Theater as in like stage, theater, theater, theater in the
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Movie theater and be a part of something like this. what do you
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Hope that families will experience when they leave a
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Sight and sound? live performance?
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>> yeah, i always love i mean, there's nothing like watching
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The wonder in the kids eyes when the animals are running up and
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Down the aisles. we have skunks, live skunks in the show that.
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>> have they been skunked?
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>> they have been discovered, but they walk up into the ark.
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It's so endearing because.
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>> that would really ruin the smell.
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>> of the animals. well, that's why we have the almonds to cover
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Up the smell. no, i'm just kidding. but but. so there's
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Nothing like watching that. but for me, the thing that always
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Means the most is when we get letters or emails or comments
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Afterwards of parents who said, i left today and we talked the
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Whole way home about how does it mean to live like noah in the
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World we're in today or or what? you know, how did noah process
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When that ark door shut? we talked so much about his family
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Being celebrated and saved in. that's true. but they lost so
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Much. it was their neighbors. it was their extended family who
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Chose not to come on board with them. and so there's while this
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Show is beautiful and fun and funny, there's comedy through
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It. there is like a thread of grief as well that you watch
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Noah's family experience. and so to hear parents say, we went
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Home and read the story together with our kids, or we decided to
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Do a devotional together to talk through what we what we watched
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On stage. we want to read it for ourselves now. like that's what
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Means something to us. that's when we're like, thank you,
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Lord. that's the work, right? there is families having tools
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To be able to grow their family's faith.
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>> well, katie, i have so much respect for sight and sound and
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For you. from you, for you and for all of the actors and
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Everyone involved in these productions. because of all the
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Things you could be bringing to life, you're bringing to life
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The most redemptive stories in the world, and nothing can
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Transform the heart of mankind but the gospel, right? and
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That's what you are committed to. and stories like noah help
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All of us teach our children about how the bible really does
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Explain reality. and that flood helps us to understand so much
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About about the different races of people. it helps us
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Understand about ecology. it helps us understand about the
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World that we live in. what may have started the ice age, which
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We learn about in science classes. and these are the
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Stories that start the conversations we hope and pray
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For as parents and grandparents with our kids.
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>> yeah. and you know, one of the things that blows my mind
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Is, and this is such a thing that our story team just brought
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Out of the story in a beautiful way. you know, we forget
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Sometimes that noah, god talked to noah and told him to build an
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Ark, but that did not. it did not start raining and they did
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Not have that ark finished for nearly a hundred years. it was
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What they assume between 75 to i'm your announcer years of
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Building an ark, and the faithfulness that was required
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For noah to live with all the opposition that was around him.
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It says he was the last righteous man on earth. and so
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For i'm your announcer years of living faithfully in the midst
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Of the faithless world around him is so inspiring. and i think
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Just as relevant today as it ever has been. and it's
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Something that, you know, even i have a 12 year old. he's my
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Youngest, and after he watched the show this year, he's not
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Stopped talking about it. it's been months now and he's still
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Going, mom, like, how do you think it was when noah, you
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Know, when his brother chose not to get on the ark with him or
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When his neighbor, you know, and how can we be that light to the
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World?
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>> yeah. beautiful way together with your family and all sorts
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Of other families with the almonds, the whole experience.
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The skunks, skunks and the camels and jesus walking on
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Water right in front of you. it is glorious.
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>> hello, i'm katie miller from sight and sound at sight and
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Sound. we are passionate about bringing the bible to life on
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Stage, and it all started nearly 50 years ago with a single slide
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Projector. what began with a dairy farmer and a call from god
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Has grown into something we never imagined. with two state
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Of the art theaters, a team of over 800 incredibly talented
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Team members, and original productions that feature massive
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Sets, live animals, and powerful stories straight from scripture.
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Each year, over a million and a half guests walk through our
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Doors to experience these immersive shows. and thanks to
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Our amazing partnership with tbn, we're now able to bring
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These experiences directly into your home. we are so excited to
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Share one of our most beloved productions, jonah, airing on
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Tbn june 20th and available to stream june 20th through the
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22nd, this show is one of our favorites, featuring a reluctant
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Prophet, a giant storm at sea, an immersive underwater journey,
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And of course, one unforgettable fish. it's a story of second
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Chances, mercy, and god's unrelenting pursuit of our
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Hearts. told through breathtaking visuals, larger
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Than life sets, and a whole lot of heart, we're so thankful to
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Partner with tbn to share these stories with wider audiences,
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And we hope jonah encourages you and inspires you wherever you
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Are. join us on this incredible journey. mark your calendars for
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June 20th and gather your loved ones for a tbn watch party. you
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