Gary & Susan – ALpTx

As owners and operators of Alpha Video Productions near Dallas, Texas, they have served businesses and ministries in Jesus’ name since 1981. Their business was started on the biblical foundations contained in Crown Financial Ministries’ Business by the Book seminar, with valuable mentoring by a local CBMC leader. Gary is director of photography, producer, videographer, and editor. Susan is writer, producer, and administrator. The Bauers have co-produced award-winning projects in Europe, Latin America, and the USA during their professional careers. International projects have also taken them to the Middle East and Asia.

Both natives of Dallas, they met at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi. Gary earned a Master’s degree at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California, while learning video in the training department of Huntington Memorial Hospital and in Hollywood. During that time, Susan worked in missions research and donor relations for World Vision International. Susan is also the author of a novel, Circle of Love, set in Staffordshire, England, of the 1640s and 1990s. Gary co-founded a video company in Orange County, California, and has taught television production at college level.

For the past 14 years, the Bauers also served as communications directors with Europartners Ministries Corporation (USA org), then through Global Business Success Foundation. Now, as “creative Kingdom servants” with Artists in Christian Testimony (A.C.T. Intl), they continue to serve the Europartners marketplace movement based in Europe and other ministry partners in their own network.

Gary became a Christian in high school at a Billy Graham Crusade in Houston’s Astrodome. As a pre-teen, Susan made her decision for Jesus at First Presbyterian Church/Dallas during services led by Howard Butt, Jr., then vice-chairman of H-E-B grocery stores.

Gary and Susan have been married over 45 years, serve in their local church, and are parents of two married daughters and grandparents of eight. They are commissioned as international missionaries by Lake Ridge Bible Church, Mesquite, Texas.