Pasadena, CA, June 11, 2009 – The spotlight shines on arts, entertainment and media when Harvest Rock Church hosts its ProJECT Light conference Aug. 5-9 at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena. 
          
          Film producer Ralph Winter (Wolverine, X-Men series, Star Trek, Fantastic Four), Zachary Levi, star of NBC’s hit comedy Chuck, child art prodigy Akiane, and others will headline the weekend of workshops and seminars to help launch people of the Christian faith into arts, media and entertainment careers. The weekend’s schedule offers a front-row seat for attendees to interact with and learn from leading industry professionals.
          
          Joining Winter, Levi and Akiane as headliners at the conference will be Pastors Che and Sue Ahn, founders of Harvest Rock Church; founder of Generals InternationalCindy Jacobs, Kong Hee, founder and senior pastor of City Harvest Church; and television commercial producer Mark Thomas.
          
          Gabriel Ahn is the director of ProJECT Light. Ahn oversees Harvest Rock Church’s young adult ministry, Remnant. He is also an actor with a desire to write, direct and produce films.

          “This is something that I believe has never quite been done before in the Christian community, and will be a groundbreaking event,” Gabe Ahn said. ProJECT Light grew out of Harvest Rock Church’s goals to transform society through various areas of culture – religion, media, arts and entertainment, family, government, education, business.

          “We believe that Harvest Rock Church, like many, have a mandate to reach out to the entertainment industry because we are located at Ambassador Auditorium inPasadena, so close to Hollywood, and that Ambassador hosted performances by the world’s top entertainers for 20 years,” Ahn said. 

          “If we were to talk about Christians in Hollywood 20 years ago, we would have been looked down upon, but now we’ve seen the reverse, the opposite attitude,” he continued. “We as believers should not separate ourselves from Hollywood. It needs us, and that's why we want to encourage people to be a light in the entertainment industry.”

          When this conference’s topic was selected, church leaders formed a committee of parishioners who worked in the media, arts and entertainment industries.

          That committee tapped a network of industry contacts to attract the professionals who are participating in this unique event. 
    
          Various areas of the entertainment industry will be the focus of performances and workshops.  These are just some of them:

•    Music: Musician Charles Jones (performed in Dream Girls with Beyonce Knowles and Jaime Fox), singers-songwriters Andrea Hamilton and Calista Wu, and musician-spoken word performer Mo Salgado. 

•    Dance: Professional dancers Garland Hunt and Grace Baik and The Good Foot Arts Collective. 

•    Acting: Actress, casting director and acting coach Christinna Chauncey, actress Anjelah Johnson of MadTV, Broadway performer Phillip Attmore (White Christmas andChitty Chitty Bang Bang).

•    Film: John Ware, president of "The 168 Film Festival," and film-television makeup artist Kathy Rogers.

•    Entertainment Industry: Pastors to the entertainment community Shawn Boltz and Jaeson Ma, and Shun Lee, president of The Greenhouse Arts & Media, Inc.

          Registration is open to the public at $70 for the whole weekend of keynote speeches, performances, and workshops.

          Harvest Rock Church is located at Ambassador Auditorium, 131 S. St. John Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105. All are welcome to services, held on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

          For more information about Harvest Rock Church, please call (626) 794-1194 or visit on the web for all of Harvest Rock Services live at http://www.harvestrockchurch.org.

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