karen covell

WOULD BE GREAT FOR:

-Weekend Service
-Special Media Sunday
-Outreach Event

Bio

Karen Covell is a television producer, Director of the Hollywood Prayer Network (HPN) and co-founder and producer for JC Productions, an independent television and music production company.

Ms. Covell has had extensive experience producing television specials, documentaries and children’s programming; most recently as coordinating producer for the PAX special Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion, as associate producer for Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer and as co-producer for the television special America’s Throwaway Children, starring Dennis Franz and Danny Glover. She also produced a documentary DVD for HPN entitled The Hollywood Crisis. She created and produced the rock gospel music show pilot Good News Rock and was associate producer with Shari Lewis Home Video including One Minute Bedtime Stories and One Minute Bible Stories. Ms. Covell was the post-production producer for the animation company TMS Entertainment, Inc.

As Head of Development at Penthouse Presentations, a TV production company (not affiliated with the magazine), Ms. Covell created and developed both television movies and series concepts. She was the assistant to the Executive Producer for a CBS-TV movie The Two Lives of Carol Letner and was co-writer and assistant editor for Players or Pawns, a sports documentary and winner of best documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival.

Ms. Covell was also the producing director of the 8th Annual Women in Film Festival in Los Angeles. Prior to that event she was one of the founders of Kino Women International (KIWI), an international women’s film federation at the Moscow Film Festival and in Georgia, Soviet Union. She has also been a booking producer for TV specials and fundraiser's, booking celebrities and interviewees for the American Heart Association, the American Lung Cancer Association and World Vision International.

As the Director of the Hollywood Prayer Network, Karen also speaks and teaches around the country on how people of faith can stop hating Hollywood and boycotting its products, but instead pray for the people in the entertainment industry. She is also a published co-author of two books with her husband Jim and their writing partner Victorya Rogers, entitled, “How To Talk About Jesus Without Freaking Out” and “The Day I Met God,” both available through Multnomah Publishers and at Amazon.com. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, a founding member of PREMISE and a board member of the Biola University Entertainment Task Force. She is a graduate of USC with a BA in Producing. Karen is married to her best pal Jim, a composer. They are the proud parents of two Wonder boys-14 year old Christopher and 10 year old Cameron.

Specialty

KAREN'S SPEAKING TOPICS INCLUDE:

How To Respond To The Da Vinci Code? Is the church prepared for responding to The Da Vinci Code? Are there other responses besides getting angry or boycotting? Karen and Jim Covell (Producer and Composer in Hollywood and co-authors of “How To Talk About Jesus Without Freaking Out”) will challenge you to respond to this book and movie the way they believe Jesus would. They will give you insight into Hollywood, how it works and what makes the decision-makers tick, so that you can more clearly understand the spiritual battle and know how to respond. This film gives Christians a chance to PRAY and ACT in a way that will open the doors for God to have a positive impact on the people in Hollywood – the world’s most influential mission field.

Hollywood Exposed: Is God Anywhere In Sight?
As a television Producer, Karen exposes inside secrets of the TV & film industry. She reveals exciting stories of how God is actually alive and well in Hollywood. You’ll also gain insight of how you can have an eternal impact on this world’s most influential mission field. She talks to women who are concerned about their children and how the Media is negatively impacting them, giving ideas of how we can all make a difference in changing Hollywood.

How To Talk About Jesus Without Freaking Out
Karen helps you learn easy steps to effectively talk about Jesus. You’ll gain confidence, overcome fear and see how easily this can all be done without freaking yourself or anyone else out. (Based on her book by the same title.) She explains the power of story and how our stories can all be used by the Lord to impact others.

The Power of Asking Questions
Asking questions is the most powerful form of communication. The greatest way to influence others and lead them to the Lord is by asking questions. Karen shows how asking questions is fun, low risk and exciting when talking about the Lord, being effective at home and in the workplace and in building personal relationships. The art of asking questions can be learned in a one hour talk or a week-end conference.

The Power of a Woman’s Prayers
Prayer is the most powerful gift that God has given us. Karen talks about how prayer will not only change our personal lives but it will strengthen our marriages, our personal relationships and create an intimacy between us and our spouse, our children and/or our friends and other family members in a way that nothing else can do. Karen also gives suggestions on how to make prayer both creative and fun.

testimony

I learned early in life that there are two things one doesn’t talk about – politics and religion. My whole family of six went to church every week as I was growing up, but we never talked about God, let alone Jesus. We walked out of church and started discussing what we all wanted for lunch. Then when Saturday night church became an option, we loved being able to “get church over with” without ruining Saturday night!

We were an artistic family, so I went to college with a singular focus: to take over the theatre world as a producer. But I didn’t know what God had in store for me. During my freshman year at USC, my roommate started talking to me about God. By the end of the year, after I had asked as many tough questions as I could think of, my heart started melting and our discussions led me to a personal relationship with Jesus. God then began to show me that His plan for me involved much more than just theatre producing.

For almost two decades I have been a producer in the television industry, working with both Christians and non-Christians. It’s been exciting and challenging. Yet, my fulfillment comes not from my career, but from my relationships with the Lord and with Jim, our friends, with my ministry in Hollywood, and with our two boys, Christopher and Cameron. And most miraculously, I get the greatest joy from the very thing I never wanted to do – tell others about Jesus. In fact, The Lord has transformed me from being committed to never talk about Jesus to being passionate about sharing my faith. Jim and our friend Victorya Michaels Rogers and I even wrote a book based on a class we’ve been teaching in our home for the past 15 years entitled, How To Talk About Jesus Without Freaking Out! – something I never would have even been capable of imagining years ago. But God has transformed me from the inside out.

Performer: Karen Covell

Travels from: Los Angeles, CA

Performance Fee: Call for quote

Travel Requirements: Airfare & Hotel for (1)