Our Team
Clyde Taber MMU Founder & Director, Instructor: Biblical Languages Bootcamp: Greek
Clyde leads the Visual Story Network (VSN), a community of 600 organizations and 7,000 leaders in 99 nations. VSN accelerates the mission of the Church by equipping our generation to use media, story and innovation to make disciples of all nations. Since the launch of VSN in 2007, more than 1,000 projects, products and partnerships have been established. Prior to VSN, he oversaw new media development for Jesus Film Project (Magdalena: Released from Shame, Damah Film Festival, JESUS: Fact or Fiction?) and coordinated the campus work of Cru throughout North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Clyde holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland/College Park and a Master of Divinity / Missiology degree with honors from Denver Seminary. He speaks English, French and Turkish and is always working on his biblical Greek and Hebrew. To learn more about Clyde, go to www.visualstory.org/tabers.
Carissa Sheehan Administrator
Carissa is a freelance graphic designer/project manager. She has worked for several mission organizations and nonprofits as a graphic designer, art director, and project manager. Carissa currently teaches graphic design and Adobe software online in the Christian homeschool community. Her undergrad degree is in art and she has an MA in Applied Linguistics. She loves working with everyone at MMU.
Adam Johnson Instructor, Foundations of Digital Engagement Strategies
AJ is a church planter and digital engagement strategist with a life mission statement of winning the lost, discipling believers and starting churches. He has been doing church planting for more than 35 years with the last 24 years serving in East and Southeast Asia. AJ has been working with media for the last 10 years and currently serves and coordinates digital engagement strategies across 9 different countries.
Hannah Mae Pannot Instructor, Foundations of Digital Engagement Strategies
Hannah is a Media Contributor with a strong focus on digital missions, combining her skill sets in digital media with her commitment to advancing global mission work. She brings hands-on experience from impactful collaborations with organizations such as SIL and Wycliffe, where she has played a key role in capturing and documenting the transformative efforts of Bible teams through photography and video, most notably through the Project Legacy initiative in West Africa.
Passionate about leveraging both her creative and operational experience, she is eager to take on new opportunities that further the mission of spreading the gospel and making a tangible impact through digital platforms.
Allyson Baldwin Teaching Assistant, Biblical Languages Bootcamp: Greek
Allyson serves the global church as a writer with Create International, a media ministry of Youth With A Mission producing evangelistic film and media. She also serves the local church as the Pastor of Missions and Discipleship at Covenant Community Church in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Her passion is studying and sharing the Word of God through one-on-one mentorship and writing and teaching Bible studies. Allyson lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts with her husband Steve, a team leader and film director with Create. Since their three grown children have all moved to the West Coast, they share their empty bedrooms with many visitors and their dog, Hazel.
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