CWR Director Jim Sundholm says producers told him the program should air at 8 p.m. (EST) on November 28 on the HDNet cable channel, and be repeated several times.
“The producers were really pumped about what was going on in Phoenix,” Sundholm says. “The more people they interviewed and the more things they saw happening, the more pumped they got.
“The point is the contrast with what is not happening anywhere else,” Sundholm explained.
The feature is expected to focus on churches working together to rebuild the community. A dozen members of Hillcrest Covenant Church in Prairie Village, Kansas, also were volunteering in the community at the time.
A two-person film crew and a writer were in Phoenix for two days, interviewing numerous people. Possibly included in the feature will be a town hall meeting in which Sundholm and members of the Hillcrest Covenant Church presented plans for constructing new 1,000-square-foot homes that would have either two or three bedrooms. The meeting at the reconstructed Zion Travelers Baptist Church was so packed that some community members had to stand outside, Sundholm says.
“It was a great time spiritually, with everyone holding hands and praying for a new future,” Sundholm continued.
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, started the cable channel in 2001 with Philip Garvin of Colorado Studios. The channel is carried on Adelphia Communications, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications, Time Warner Cable, and many National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) cable affiliate companies.
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