Devon Franklin - The other side of Victory

Background information:
"Setting: It’s a Friday afternoon in Lisle, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Attendees at the Evangelical Press Association awards lunch fall silent as a 33-year-old Hollywood film studio executive takes the podium. 

But this isn’t your typical Christian convention speaker. While sharing his earnest story about grace, faith, and the power of a transformed life, DeVon Franklin, vice president of production at Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood’s top film studios, talks about the time he was on location filming a remake of the family-friendly movie The Karate Kid in Beijing, China. 

“It was getting late in the afternoon that Friday,” he recalled. “The sun was going down. I could have stayed on the set and completed my work, and no one [back home] would have known,” he explained. “But I would have known, and God would have known. So I told the folks I was leaving, had someone take over, and had a great Sabbath in China.” Yes, he said “Sabbath,” and yes, he identified himself as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian. 

Afterward dozens of conference-goers lined up to get an autographed copy of Franklin’s book, Produced by Faith, and laud his Christian commitment ..."

Read more: http://www.adventistreview.org/article/4722/archives/issue-2011-1526/adventist-film-exec-produces-by-faith