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Published on: 9/30/2006
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This is Ralph Zuranski and I am on the phone with Jeff Wright.
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How are you doing today, Jeff?
Jeff Wright: I'm doing very well, thank you.
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Jeff Wright: Sure.
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Jeff Wright: While working for another Christian publishing company he got the idea that some specific, unique media targeting African American teens needed to be introduced.
So in 1970 in the basement of his home he launched a magazine called InTeen and Urban Ministries Inc. was born.
Jeff Wright: that by the time the full line was complete a church could use the Urban Ministries curriculum as their Christian education or Sunday school curriculum.
The product began to be introduced in many, many churches, primarily African American churches around the country.
Jeff Wright: The company went on in the 1980s to develop a Vacation Bible School course to re-introduce the use of video products.
I'm talking dramatic stories in videos in Christian education and the African American church.
It was upon seeing one of those videos in the mid-80s that I learned of the company.
Jeff Wright: The Guardian Line, which is the newest product line from Urban Ministries, then continues a tradition of the use of innovative media products to reach audiences with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jeff Wright: By teaming up with Michael Davis who was already in the comic world and bringing the many years of church ministry and Christian education product resources developed by Urban Ministries we believe that we are going to do an incredible thing to extend the Gospel into even newer audiences.