BRADLEY S. HOUSTON

A long-time supporter and FACE the Challenge team participant, Mr. Brad Houston is Producer-Director of MissionVision Productions (MVP), an organization that has produced videos for ministries since 1992. MVP is located in Saint Petersburg, Florida and more information is found on MVP's website: www.missionvisionproductions.org .

While Brad has done freelance photojournalism, he currently is a photojournalist for NBC Network News. His assignments require that he travel extensively. For example, he has devoted much time to covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina since August 2005. We first met Brad while he worked as a photojournalist/post-production editor at the NBC affiliate KUSA-TV in Denver, Colorado, 1993-2001.

Mr. Houston has traveled with FTC surgical teams to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, April 2006 and April 1999, Sucre, Bolivia, March 2004, and Shen Yang, China, October 2000. After the trip to China, Brad edited a two-part feature on this trip, which aired on KUSA. He also produced and edited a feature about FTC in 1998; an invaluable tool in defining FTC for others. As of 2006, he has 20 years of broadcast news experience, which has won him:

23 Emmy Awards, the National Edward R. Murrow Award, two National "Editor of the Year" Awards, three Regional "Photographer of the Year" Awards, and 12 National Photography/Editing Awards.

Such awards allowed Brad to be the invited guest speaker in 25 US cities with the National Press Photographers Association and at television stations. As a Producer-Director, Brad has produced and directed several projects, including such ones for non-profit organizations as World Vision International, Prison Fellowship, Youth for Christ, etc. This type of work took Brad on several trips to places like Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda, Romania, and numerous European countries.

Brad obtained a Bachelor of Arts-Television Production degree from Columbia College-Chicago in 1985 and graduated from Wheaton North High School in Wheaton, Illinois in 1980. Married, to Kerri, with two daughters, Courtney and Taylor, Brad's life goals are to be a "good and faithful servant, to love and know Jesus, and to love my family."

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