we tell Your stories
in Your voice
is transforming lives for Christ. They also paint a compelling picture for potential donors.
Every organization has a story to tell.
StoryMasters helps you tell YOUR story
and connect with your stakeholders.
StoryMasters makes it easy for your
organization to communicate with your
stakeholders. Our team of storytellers
takes your content and transforms
it into a story.
StoryMasters makes it easy for your organization to communicate with your stakeholders. Our team of storytellers takes your content and transforms it into a story.
About
Operation Snap Dragon was founded in 2013 to break those barriers that prevent the story of Jesus from reaching everyone on the planet. We relentlessly pursue inroads into the hard-to-reach regions. Breaking the enemy’s grasp on these communities. And we do this through STORYTELLING!
With no way in sight, we pray expectantly, trusting that God will make a way. And He always DOES! Time and time again, God creates a golden connection between our organization and the exact person or resource needed to accomplish His mission. We initially brought our extensive cross-cultural production experience to expand Jesus Film Project’s capacity for its Mission 865 initiative. We have produced the story of Jesus for over 160 new language communities. But production is not our primary goal. Our principal aim has been to transform the lives of 63 million people who can now meet Jesus in their language. Our burden is reaching the lost. To love them. And to connect each person to the Gospel of Christ. And we do that through STORYTELLING.
We’re StoryMasters…and we help faith-based organizations tell their story because it’s extremely difficult for them to share their
own story when they are living it.
Stories have never been as important as they are today. A compelling story, told well, echoes through the mind, overtakes the heart, and demands a response.
An organization’s stories are one of its most valuable assets. StoryMasters helps them protect and leverage that asset by giving it life and sharing it with the organization’s stakeholders.
The latest technology and tools power StoryMaster’s storytelling process from idea, to outline, to writing, and through distribution. But each story we write is “hand-crafted” like a shoemaker in Italy today who cobbles and stitches a new pair of shoes the exact same way his predecessors did 100 years ago. Every story we produce has at least one StoryMaster involved in the entire process from start to finish.
We also: 1) Repurpose stories into video scripts; 2) Create digital marketing plans; 3) Develop fund-raising campaigns; 4) Build strategic plans; and 5) Manage social media programs.
When leaders of faith-based organizations want to tell their story, they call StoryMasters.
Our Team
Mark Affleck
Founder & CEO
Mark is the founder of Love God Fear Nothing, a ministry that helps Christians activate their faith. Launched in 2016, the ministry’s online platform has grown to 1.5 MILLION followers. From 2013-2015, Mark helped churches and Christian organizations reach their strategic goals through POWERFUL STORYTELLING. Mark has been writing stories since serving as editor of his high school and college newspapers.
After graduating from college with a degree in Journalism, he wrote for large city newspapers and later became editor of Avocado rower Magazine. He then put that experience to work as a CEO and storyteller in corporate America. His book -- 7 Steps to Activate Your Faith will be published in 2022. Prior to going into full-time ministry, Mark was CEO of the California Avocado Commission for 20 years. While CEO, annual sales skyrocketed from $90 million to $1 billion. Mark lives in Southern California with his wife of 43 years, Cindy.
Joe Class III
Vice President
Joe Class III is the Chief Storyteller for Operation Snap Dragon. He is a devoted husband and father of six kiddos, two still living at home. When he was old enough to speak, he started telling stories. Today each story Joe tells is narrated passionately, captivating the listener.
If he’s not actively engaged in a conversation on his way to developing a new story, you can find him writing or outside running, training for another 50-mile Ultramarathon. Joe’s heart is committed to telling stories that, in a tangible way, wildly inspire and transform people so he can give 100% of the glory to God.
Joe Class II
Senior Advisor
Joe Class is the YODA of Christian storytelling! For more than 30 years he has told stories — through film, video, print, and on the internet — that serve major corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and everything in between. National and international clients range from literacy, community development, Christian mission and educational organizations, Fortune 500 companies and their subsidiaries, to high tech, biotech, and government entities.
He has served ABC News, New York and worked on numerous Hollywood feature films at Lucasfilm, including, Return of the Jedi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, and Star Trek 2 – The Wrath of Khan. From his home base in Arlington, Texas, Joe has traveled to more than 70 countries, uncovering inspirational stories and sharing them with millions.
Brian Miller
Production Director
“Under-promise and over-deliver.” That’s Brian Miller’s storytelling signature when he commits to find creative solutions that produce a powerful story. Brian’s storytelling career began with video production in high school. He now has over 25 years of professional experience as a storyteller. He’s shot and edited countless award-winning productions, ranging from television ads and corporate videos to documentaries and heart- tugging ministry appeals.
He’s traveled to 35+ countries, and often journeys to the farthest corners of the world to capture compelling stories. Here's how Brian sums up his work: “I love the variety of projects we get to work on, and enjoy being involved in all aspects of production, from the initial creative discussions to delivery of the final product. Being a part of a small team, where we all work on these tasks together, makes us better storytellers and is a lot of fun, too!”
Staci Class
Story Editor
Staci Class is a whimsical warrior, discovering and entertaining others in life’s daily perils. An avid reader of the written word, and married to a storyteller, she brings 10 years of editing and proofreading experience to StoryMasters.
Her creative talents extend beyond storytelling into acting, drawing, and painting. Her husband and their two teenage children spend many hours playing games, watching movies, or together pursuing other creative endeavors. Here’s her personal expression of storytelling: “I love making people smile. If I can bring a smile to someone else’s face, helping them see the humor in life’s craziness, then I count myself blessed.”
Rick Cortez
Creative Director
From rebranding corporate images to animating CGI characters, Rick Cortez considers each project to be an opportunity to create an inspirational tone that tells a compelling story. His key to each story is finding “that special something” to ignite passion and activate the team’s collective heart to tell a powerful story. Rick has immersed himself in visual arts, with an increasing emphasis on dramatic storytelling, for over 25 years.
His creative vision and editorial design talents are in high demand as he creates stunning photo-real visual effects. Rick’s world class 3D graphic elements have been seen on television specials, indie films, and corporate
communications. Rick works closely with his teammates to achieve a distinctive voice that communicates the essence and power of every story. Each project is a new opportunity to connect with the hearts of the client’s
audience on the way to creating a story that moves the audience in the intended way.
Our PASSION and PURPOSE
Telling stories about how God has transformed people and communities.
Stories customized to YOUR need
StoryMasters creates WRITTEN stories (online and printed) and VISUAL stories (video and film).
We can help you tell a powerful story to bridge the gap
between your organization and its stakeholders.
Digital Marketing
Social Impact
Donor reports
Branding
Our Vision
Stories are more cherished than gold. They connect people, helping build and grow relationships. And with today’s incredible technology tools, communicating with any person, at any time, anywhere on planet earth is possible!
- Storytelling taps into our innate desire to “see” and “feel” information that arcs from idea to problem to solution.
- Storytelling makes it possible to gather INFORMATION and turn it into KNOWLEDGE that can be leveraged as a STORY.
- Storytelling increases the attention span and memory of the audience because it connects with our emotions.
Stories help us make sense of our even-changing world. And all that while providing a first-hand account to connect to one other person. This account gives us perspective on what matters most -- Connection & Relationships.
Faith-based organizations know the importance of clearly communicating with stakeholders, understanding it is imperative to tell stories demonstrating how the organization is transforming lives. And they know that attracting and keeping donors required stores that create a compelling opportunity to support and transform lives.
Our Process
If Storytelling was a recipe, the ingredients would be vision, creativity, expertise, and experience. Preparing that recipe is a process with steps to follow and milestones to reach. Like baking a cake, you would not skip a step or start at the end. That’s how important the process is to storytelling. The proprietary process used by StoryMasters follows below.
Testimonials
What People Say
Stories About Transformation
Transformation in a Tent
They filed into the tent one by one–men, women, and children—all of them seemingly oblivious to the searing heat inside that was created by a scorching African sun crawling through the tent’s canvas roof. These 400 Rwandans were being commissioned by my church for mission work in their communities around Kigali, the country’s capital. I started speaking with a sense of urgency to finish quickly and free everyone from the oppressive temperatures. Almost immediately I witnessed something I had never seen before giving hundreds of speeches from small groups to 30,000 people in a national stadium to every size in-between. Everyone in the sea of smiling faces trained on the stage that day was in tears and embracing their neighbor. AND THEY NEVER STOPPED!
When the event ended, I was certain this group would do incredible work for God’s Kingdom. That’s why it was no surprise years later when I learned that God had indeed used them to transform their communities for Christ. I actually knew it on that special day I spent sweltering in a no-frills tent watching 400 emotionally charged souls commit to become servants of God. But without that story and its powerful images baked indelibly into my head and heart, I would have been surprised the hear later that the group commissioned on August 12, 2011 had achieved a victory for God. WHY? Because without their story, they would have been, well…“just another group to me.”
MARK AFFLECK
Can God use the Bubonic Plague for Good?
It was a crisp African day when I encountered a young mother named Julie who gifted me with an UNFORGETTABLE story. She had just moved her family to this remote region of Kenya to work as a Bible Translator and I sensed it was a huge sacrifice. I felt better about that when she talked about how much fun her children were having with local kids playing on the dusty earth, much like they had done in Indiana. But she seemed to press stop on that story of bliss when the magnitude of her neighbor’s illness crawled across her mind.
Julie quickly switched to this new thread and described driving the young man recently to a health clinic several hours away from their village. He had lymph nodes swollen to the size of chicken eggs and was delirious by the time her 2002 Volkswagen Rabbit had chugged its way to the small and modest clinic on a dirt road just off the main dirt road.
The diagnosis? Bubonic Plague.
With her face bathed in tears, she recounted: “I didn’t know the plague was still around. And now we’re living right in the middle of it! How can this be?”
On that note Julie’s voice trailed off softly and parked in her now-pensive mood.
It was at this point that I asked--in the most comforting voice I could summon--what happened and how things turned out for her neighbor.
Skimming tears off her puffy cheeks, she donned a captivating grin and responded: “God protected us because He loves these people so much. And they acknowledge it by telling others that God speaks their language and hears them when they speak to Him.”
I was stunned by that remarkable transformation, but it became even more powerful when Julie told me that their new-found faith stands in stark contrast to how they had previously talked about God to missionaries: “Your God does NOT love me. Why? Because he cannot speak my language. He writes to others, not to me.”
WOW. My brief encounter with this amazing young woman ended when she humbly and reflectively summarized: “Is this work difficult? Absolutely. But it’s worth it all, it really is.”
I will never forget Julie’s gripping story of God’s goodness and how He used the Jesus Film—translated in their mother tongue language—to reach these lost souls with the Good News of Jesus.
JOE CLASSl
I Got Bored with Lincoln Logs and Met Jesus
Six years old. It’s a magical time in our lives when life is still fresh and new. Every thought you have is in concrete, black-and-white terms. Your imagination is alive, full of unique, creative ideas. For you, nothing is off-limits. And your tiny little mind soaks up information like a straw – especially if you know how to read.
I started reading somewhere around age four when a preschool educator gave me books to read like Dick and Jane. Anything I could pick up and read, I did. Before starting school, I read above the kindergarten level, retelling every story I had read to anyone who would listen.
