It was in my pursuit of wholeness and really relying on him to be my source and to be my identity.

That I recognized that it was through brokenness

that we get to real strength.

You know, sometimes it's counterintuitive,

but to go through the pain and to go through the brokenness to acquire that

level of strength is very much well worth it.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we visit with Maria Jose Tennyson, the Vice President of

Brand and Production for Sight and Sound theaters. The purpose of their productions are to

present the Gospel of Jesus Christ and so the word of God

into the lives of those who attend their shows by visualizing and dramatizing the scriptures

through inspirational productions. Maria shares a little bit about her life as the child of immigrants and the early years of her career. My name is Maria Jose Tennyson and I am the vice president of Brand and Show Production at Sight and Sound Theaters.

I am responsible for the teams that actually work on the development of the productions

in relation to the design, engineering, the

construction of the show, so all the magic that happens to get the show on the stage.

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and my parents immigrated to the states when I was fairly

young, so I don't have a whole lot of recollection of my life in Argentina. I grew up in a suburb of

Los Angeles and to parents who are very courageous and very driven but the fact that they moved from a country without understanding the

language and having to give up their life everything knew, and really starting over. One of the reasons that they left

Argentina was at the beginning of the dirty war in the 70s. The military had taken over the government and life felt uncertain at best. And typical

immigrant story they really believed that they could provide for a better life for their daughters in the United States.

When we first came to the States, resources were tight and we lived in a very small apartment.

I shared a room with my grandmother she came

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