Awake: Discover the Power of Your Story

Joel Clark’s heart-pounding, tear-jerking, laugh-out-loud stories didn’t happen by accident. His life of adventure ignited when he embraced the journey God had planned for him―the story God wants to tell through each one of us. With interactive film clips and personal interviews, Joel invites you into the story Jesus is telling in the middle of the orphan crisis in Africa, the heart-rending tragedy that followed the Haiti earthquake, as well as his own quirky and very real love story. As you meet the characters who have shaped Joel’s journey, you’ll see Jesus through the tears of a young slave in Africa and witness intimate conversations with child soldiers in Haiti and youth group kids in South Africa. And you’ll be challenged to enter a God-adventure of your own. Because, according to Clark, another person’s experiences are never enough. Your unique passions, gifts and circumstances are calling you to live big and say yes. What part of the unfolding story is Jesus longing to tell through you? It’s time to do it … for the story.

Joel N. Clark is the co-founder and creative director of Switchvert, a production and ideas house co-located in Washington, DC and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a writer-filmmaker, Clark’s love for story and adventure shine through the diversity of products he and his team create, ranging from short films/features, sitcoms, commercials, and justice-oriented documentaries filmed all over the world. He has worked with such authors as Donald Miller and Mark Batterson on various film projects. He lives with his family in Washington D.C.