Mission Possible 2012 is featuring some of the most imaginative, creative, and significant conspirators in the fight against injustice. Our highlighted collaborators are:
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to secure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to ensure that public justice systems – police, courts and laws – effectively protect the poor.
IJM’s justice professionals work in their communities in 13 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to secure tangible and sustainable protection of national laws through local court systems.
In the tradition of heroic Christian leaders like abolitionist William Wilberforce and transformational leaders like Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr., IJM’s staff stand against violent oppression in response to the Bible’s call to justice (Isaiah 1:17): Seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Derek Webb
Derek Webb may be the most dangerous man in the music business.
At a time when major labels are struggling to reinvent themselves, and artists are desperate to hold on to a
rapidly shrinking audience that doesn’t always pay for its music, singer/songwriter Derek Webb continues
to make iconoclastic, irresistible, radio‐ready pop records about love and war and social justice. However,
unlike most pop artists on the scene today, Webb’s engaged, committed fan‐base is constantly expanding –
in part because Derek Webb has a tendency to give his music away for free through the website he co-founded called Noisetrade.
Derek and filmmaker Scott Brignac will be showing the short film Self-Sabotage and leading a time of reflection on the convergence of The Lord’s Prayer, Derek’s worship album Feedback and the significance of justice. Derek and Scott will also be leading breakout sessions on the connection to music and film in regards to justice. Derek will also be playing a late night solo concert!
Caitlin Beidler
Artist Caitlin Beidler is the founder of Redemption Art, and will be live painting the main evening sessions, leading breakout sessions, and creating an interactive experience for anyone at Mission Possible 2012 to have a chance to respond to God’s heart for justice through art.
The mission of Redemption Art is to restore people, relationships, and communities through art. Redemption Art’s foundational belief is that people are broken and in great need of healing and restoration. Once there is restoration, transformation of people, relationships, and communities can occur.
Scott Brignac
Scott is a filmmaker who composed a series of short films titled Self-Sabotage, based on Derek Webb’s latest album Feedback, a musical interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer. Scott will be leading a breakout session and showing his film during our interactive worship experience. Check out a teaser of the film here:
Self-Sabotage: the deliberate subversion of oneself. Destructive or obstructive action that hinders the person who acts. See also: the Lord’s Prayer.
The Lord’s Prayer is inherently violent towards the one who prays it.
This film has come to pick a fight, and any viewing that fails to recognize that may put the viewer at risk in one way or another. Self-Sabotage is an exploration of the Lord’s Prayer based on and inspired by Derek Webb’s electronic all instrumental album ‘Feedback’. It follows six characters in a narrative with no words – only the music to parallel the stories.
Self-Sabotage rests firmly amidst the tension between the prayed and the praying; the single-minded character and vision of the Lord’s prayer serves as the sub-text through which we enter into the lives of its characters. Their lives, like moving icons, open windows into the great mystery of communion through self-dethroning sabotage.
