C. McNair Wilson was here!
The service was amazing.
(click here to listen to the sermon)
Professionally Mr. Wilson serves as a corporate creativity coach and conference speaker—with clients from Apple Computer to the Salvation Army. Ministry professionals, NASA engineers, medical workers, educators, parents groups, and media execs from London to LA have benefitted from his coaching. He asserts that “everyone has a creative spirit—factory installed—that just needs re-activating. I am determined to get everyone on the active list.”
C. McNair Wilson
His résumé is long and diverse. In the THEME PARK world he worked as a Concept Designer, creating entire new theme parks and major attractions for existing parks. The majority of this work was on staff at Disney Imagineering: Disney-MGM Studios, Pleasure Island (Adventurers Club, etc.), and Disney’s Animal Kingdom. McNair was the lead Imagineer for the concept & design team that dreamt up the now-legendary Tower of Terror. After leaving Imagineering he consulted at Disney corporate (6 years) and worked on projects at Universal Studios, Warner Bros., and Sony Entertainment.
As a PUBLISHED AUTHOR he has written four books and scores of articles. His most recent books are RAISED IN CAPTIVITY: A Memoir of a Life Long Churchaholic and his newest book HATCH! Brainstorming Secrets of a Theme Park Designer—will be published in 2011. More books are in the works.
As a CARTOONIST his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Wittenburg Door and numerous other magazines and on the walls of some of the worlds great restaurants.
He has been a PLAYWRIGHT, penning full-length plays, musicals, and three one-man plays: FROM UP HERE, THE FIFTH GOSPEL, and RAISED IN CAPTIVITY-On Stage! His newest, full-length play (with a cast of fifty) is I,WITNESS, The story of Jesus as told by his friend Levi, just premiered this week.
He studied graphic design and marketing at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and theatre arts as California State University, San Jose. He has also taught on the college and high school level in the arts and communications. We are privileged to have him; let’s make him more than welcome.