Tuesday, May 13, 2014

A New Actor for Jonathan Park


The CreationWorks team is beginning to record new episodes of JP. The actor for Jonathan Park from the past two albums has been Isaac Taylor. However, his voice is much deeper now than it was when he took over the role. That means that it's time for a new actor to come and continue to keep Jonathan sounding young. And the new actor is...Noah Taylor!

Noah recently auditioned and won the part of Jonathan Park. He is now the fourth person to play the main character of the series. He is also the third son of the Taylor family to play Jonathan. His oldest brother Caleb acted in Volumes 3-5 and next oldest was in Volumes 8-9. I guess it runs in the family. That and they sound fairly similar to each other. Noah will make his debut in Volume 10 coming out later this year.

The Taylor boys in 2010: Isaac, Caleb, and Noah.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Jonathan Park Now Available on iTunes, Spotify, and More

It finally happened! After years of being only available from Vision Forum's BlueBehemoth and ChristianAudio, Jonathan Park is finally available on all major digital music stores.

This includes iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon MP3. All albums from Volume 1 to Volume 9 can now be bought on any service that you want with higher quality MP3s than was available before. You can also stream the show using Spotify. We've also updated all our album pages so you can quickly find the link to purchase the album of your choice. This is a great move for the new owners of Jonathan Park as this will let the show have more exposure to the general public and give current fans more choices on where to buy the adventures.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Jonathan Park Albums Now Re-Released!

It's official. All the albums of Jonathan Park have been repackaged and re-released. They are no longer out of print. Today, CreationWorks launched their store where you can buy CDs and MP3s of Albums 1-9. For today and tomorrow only, you can get any album 10% off with the promo code GRANDOPENING. They're also selling Jonathan Park t-shirts, a first for the series. There's no word on when or if the Goes to... albums and The Behind the Scenes Tour will be re-released. The CreationWorks website won't be the only place to buy JP merchandise. Albums 1-9 are available for preorder on Christian Book Distributors and the MP3 versions be available soon on places like iTunes and Spotify soon as well. Exciting things are happening. Spread the word: Jonathan Park is alive again!

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Journey to Novarupta Audio Miniseries

The CreationWorks team may be hard at work rebranding the Jonathan Park series and producing the next album, but they also recently came out with a new 3 part radio drama mini series called Journey to Novarupta.

The year is 1916. Dr. Robert Griggs is leading a National Geographic expedition to a volcanic blast zone never seen by human eyes. As his team summits a hill, a valley spreads out before him with thousands of active volcanic vents. That area was named by his team as the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. And it was created by the largest volcano in modern times, Novarupta.

Almost a hundred years later creation researcher, Dr. David Shormann, discovers a book written by Griggs, and decides to return back this remote part of the Alaskan wilderness with his family and friends. Their goal is to document the overwhelming evidence for creation, the worldwide flood, and an ice age. Their goal is to find evidence to build the faith of Christians, and challenge the non-believer. But to do that, they’ll have to survive bear encounters, pumice storms and freezing rivers.

Many of the same cast and crew from JP worked on this project. It may be a different style of broadcast, but it still has the same great action and sound design as JP. You can hear a preview of the show and buy a CD or MP3 copy on the JTN website.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Jonathan Park is Saved

We can breath a sigh of relief. The Jonathan Park series will continue! Today was the last day for funding the Save Jonathan Park campaign. Not only did the reach the minimum amount of $10,000, but hit their stretch goal and exceeded that as well! To God be the glory!

Now, the CreationWorks team have enough to make a downpayment to buy the rights to JP, repackage all the albums under the CreationWorks name, and cover the cost of producing a new album. The team is currently in the process of brainstorming and writing for Volume 10 with a tentative release date of Christmas of this year. We did it, guys. We helped save Jonathan Park and now it can continue to bring more stories and science knowledge to millions of people.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Help Save Jonathan Park!


Near the end of last year, after much internal turmoil, Vision Forum closed it's doors. With the closing of the ministry also meant that the future of Jonathan Park was uncertain. Until now...

CreationWorks, Pat & Sandy Roy's creation ministry, has the opportunity to buy back the rights to the series to continue the show. But they can't do it alone. To purchase the rights, they need to have $100,000. To raise the money, the Roys and their team have started a page on Fundable to give us a chance to save Jonathan Park.

By pledging money, you'll help them to keep JP on the radio, make new episodes, and repackage all the albums. When you donate, you'll be able to receive certain rewards like an exclusive never before released ebook, a JP t-shirt, an opportunity to visit the recording session to watch the cast record the show, and much more!

This is your chance to make sure that many more people hear the message of creation through this wonderful series we all know and love. If they don't raise all $100,000 in 31 days, then they won't get any of the money. So, if you're able, please donate and most of all, pray for the CreationWorks team as they strive to bring more people to Christ.

Oh, and make sure to like them on Facebook to receive all major updates.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Novarupta

Pat Roy and his team at CreationWorks (the Roy's own Creation ministry) is working on a special project called Novarupta.

 

The year is 1916. Dr. Robert Griggs is leading a National Geographic expedition to a volcanic blast zone never seen by human eyes. As his team summits a hill, a valley spreads out before him with thousands of active volcanic vents. That area was named by his team as the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. And it was created by the largest volcano in modern times, Novarupta.

Almost a hundred years later creation researcher, Dr. David Shormann, discovers a book written by Griggs, and decides to return back this remote part of the Alaskan wilderness with his family and friends. Their goal is to document the overwhelming evidence for creation, the worldwide flood, and an ice age. Their goal is to find evidence to build the faith of Christians, and challenge the non-believer. But to do that, they’ll have to survive bear encounters, pumice storms and freezing rivers.

The CreationWorks team is working on a video documentary along with a 3 part radio drama special that tells the story of the expedition and the impact it's made on science.

The video project and the audio drama are currently in production. Make sure to visit CreationWork's website and this blog for future updates.