| Richard Close BIO |
| Missions, Speaker, Learning Consultant, Writer and Photographer www.richardclose.com Learning Blog: www.richardclose.info chrysaliscamp@aol.com
Status: Now launching “Inside The Gospel Rescue Mission” book for www.bridgeportrescuemission.org and accepting speaking engagements about America’s poor. See the Gospel Rescue Mission page for more information.  Children with Hope Why do I write with images? All the reasons I write will one day fill a lengthy book. I spent a lifetime searching for God and happiness. I was at the feet of top yogis, worked for top companies, raised a family and watched a very self-centered world that was all about “me”. Finally, God found me and stopped my life dead in it’s tracks, all the way down to living homeless in a Gospel Rescue Mission. There, God became my true Father, and I experienced a walking relationship with Him that is filled with many miracles and amazing adventures. I will tell you this, Jesus is real and very alive today. His witness can be seen all throughout this site. Today, I consult to missions, I am raising a second family, and I worship at Brooklyn Tabernacle with every nation in the world. I will also tell you that I am nothing special, not a professional photographer or writer, I’ve never had a lesson in my life. This is my witness, so that you will know that if you let God use you, your life can become an amazing adventure. I love the people of Africa and Brooklyn. I see the traditional purity of Godly work ethics and raising of children. I love the honest struggle of parents making a living, supporting children and praising God through it all. It is something I feel that modern America has so tragically lost. When God is in you heart, you will fall in love with Him in a new and deep way, and your life will be transformed and be filled with His Grace and Mercy. There is also another side of the ministry of telling Africa’s story, it’s about how complex their problems are. There are times when I am in the clinics, and I have to leave, because I can no longer see out the camera. I sit outside and grieve deeply. We have so much, while others are suffering. It is hard to take when you came back to the United States. Once I did a photo shoot of of a Christian sect that has been known to do human sacrifices. Sometimes it is really hard to imagine, but God’s love pours through you, and you can’t help going back.It’s like hearing your child cry on a playground, you don’t think, you just run in to rescue them. These are our children, and we must rush to help them. Kenyan Cybercafe …. Chickens get final word The boring details: Richard Close, CEO of The Chrysalis Campaign, has 20 plus years experience as a visionary, strategic planner and consultant to the e Learning industry. He has been an industry consultant, speaker, analyst and author of white papers on: search learning, Knowledge Management and e Learning, NLP, and Best Practices in Healthcare e Learning Methodologies. Clients in the training business include: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and numerous e Learning companies. Currently he is running webinars for “Best Practices for Healthcare in e Learning” and “Best Practices for Nurse Educators” which are attended by hundreds of Healthcare institutions across the country. Other breakthrough webinars he has co-developed have been attended by over a thousand healthcare institutions. As a senior consultant, he has developed marketing and learning programs for companies such as: Sun Microsystems, American Management Association, Graduate School USDA, Michigan Virtual University, Catapult/IBM Leaning Services, International Data Corporation, Oracle, Powersoft/Sybase and Global Knowledge (Digital Learning Services), Lotus Development, Microsoft and Symantec. His corporate experience has been with MCI International, GE and Keane. Richard has been a key player in the launching of several e Learning companies and technology centers in New York. He has published learning white papers and methodologies, in the field of Knowledge Management, Virtual Change Programs, Transformational Learning-NLP and Healthcare Learning Method. THE CHRYSALIS CAMPAIGN. INC. Richard donates 1/3 of his income to The Chrysalis Campaign, which provides strategic consulting, learning services, training and creative services and resources that support poor urban US and African communities. Current projects are in Kenya, Zambia and Haiti. For more information contact: chrysaliscamp@aol.com |
