Joining God’s Work in the World: Hannah, TWR Global Video intern

Hailing from Minnesota, Hannah Bauer serves on the Global Marketing and Communications Video team as a summer intern. She is a sophomore at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she is pursuing a double major in graphic design and media production with minors in Bible and entrepreneurship.

Hannah is eager to develop her media and film production skills as she contributes to the storytelling that is the video team’s specialty.

Having discovered TWR at a college event, Hannah started the conversation with TWR’s Mobilization team and applied for a video internship. And the next thing she knew, she had accepted her internship and was in Cary, North Carolina, at the Americas U.S. base of operations, ready to serve for the summer.

“I'm looking forward to using and expanding my creative knowledge within video, to growing stronger in my relationship with the Lord, and to meeting new people and creating great friendships,” Hannah says.

Hannah’s enthusiasm for video content creation makes her a great addition to the team. But she knows that along with great joy can come great challenges. Hannah anticipates that the learning curve with video editing software, working on live streams and grasping camera logistics will be steep. This doesn’t deter her eagerness, however.

“I’m most excited to make videos,” she says. “I love creating stories with emotion to share with others, especially if they have a moral revolving around the gospel and God.”

Hannah’s summer internship marks her first missions experience, making TWR the first global ministry she’s worked alongside. She feels like the hardest thing about being away from home for the summer will be “not getting hugs from my dad, not getting my mom’s great food, not having my sleeping buddy at night, a shih tzu-bichon mix, called Henry, and not going out to movies randomly with my brother.”

Alex Lemus, a producer and team leader with the Global Marketing Video team, shares this about Hannah:

"The Lord provides the workers for this great work, and I am always encouraged to see people like Hannah and her passion to the serve the Lord with her skills in media. … Believers like Hannah are needed to be able to create quality and creative content. She will contribute a fresh view of media to the TWR global ministry, and her creative work will encourage believers in all media platforms that TWR is connected to."

Hannah loves trying new things and looks forward to checking out popular North Carolina food. Her favorite dish is mac ‘n’ cheese, but she discovered shrimp and grits when her family visited the Crab’s Claw oceanfront restaurant in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, along the state’s coast.

When Hannah is not creating and editing videos, she hopes to spend time writing and creating art projects. She thinks it would be fun to start creating monthly personal videos.

“I’m excited to challenge myself to create videos on my own time, to create a short film here and there for fun,” she says.

Hannah’s attitude about this summer adventure serving at TWR is commendable, as she shares,

“This (North Carolina) is the farthest and longest away from home I've ever been, and yet I feel closest to home now than I have in a long time thanks to the Lord. He has been with me for my entire life, and I'm so glad I'm now deciding to hold on tightly to his hand and to never let go again!”

Images: (top, right) Hannah serves on the Global Marketing and Communications Video team as a summer intern, (middle, left) Hannah and her parents, (bottom, right) Hannah attends intern orientation week at the TWR U.S. base of operations.