Christians, Let's Make Good Television: An Orientation and Introduction to Competing by the Rules of the Game (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781450576673)

John Gowan first appeared as an actor and singer in various productions on the first TV station in Ecuador, HCJB's La Ventana de los Andes. Upon graduating from Biola College (now Biola University) in communications and theater, he studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California. He then taught theater at Westmont College where he directed numerous stage productions, including his own adaptation of Shelley's Frankenstein. Upon joining the television department of missionary broadcaster HCJB Global, John directed and edited various television series while teaching acting and TV production in the Christian Center of Communications. In 1989 he directed and edited the award-winning feature TV movie Canción de Navidad, a Latin American adaptation of Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol. It premiered internationally on the Telemundo network. John supervised the Spanish dubbing for a variety of TV series from North America and European ministries including Family Films, Grizzly Adams Productions, Day of Discovery, EO International, Focus on the Family, In Touch Ministries and Love Worth Finding. He translated and directed the Spanish dubbing of several episodes of Big Idea Productions' "Veggietales", personally providing the Spanish voices for Mr. Nezzer and Mr. Lunt. In 2004 John was a translator and intercultural consultant for the filming of Every Tribe Entertainment's End of the Spear, training Embera Indians from Panama to act the roles of the Aucas from Ecuador who killed five missionaries in 1956. He appears in the film as Major Nurnberg, who led the rescue team that discovered the slain missionaries' bodies. John currently resides in Guatemala, from where he advises and trains various Christian ministries in the field of television production and broadcasting.