Show N Tell Ministries is proud to partner with Emmy Award winning videographer Brad Simmons in bringing this story to the screen.
Show N Tell Ministries is a non-profit 501c3 organization that hosts events to enhance community and to glorify God. The events include concerts, plays, benefits, and more. Our events also are created to honor and to recognize our military service personnel and military veterans. For more information, visit showntellministries.com.
Tim Stevens
Writer, Producer
Tim Stevens, a Garner native, was a newspaper sports reporter for The News & Observer Publishing Co., for 48 years. He was once named among the Top 10 sports beat reporters in the country.
He was inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 2021. He also is in the National High School Athletics Hall of Fame and the N.C. High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Stevens created the award-winning “Broadway Voices” concert series in Garner and won a national People’s Choice Telly Award for “A Different Kind of Christmas,” a musical special that he produced. Two fundraisers that he produced raised almost $100,000 for hurricane relief.
He has written five plays about his hometown and each has won N.C. Society of Historian honors for multimedia. Garner recognized him for his contributions to the community by awarding him the James R. Stevens Service to Garner Award, an award named for his father.
Tim has been the principle responsible for bringing The Wall That Heals, a 3/4 scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that travels with a mobile education center, to Garner’s Lake Benson Park in 2022. For more information on this exhibit, hosted by Show N Tell Ministries and the Town of Garner, visit thewallthathealsgarnernc.org.
Documentaries
Hunger, with Dignity – Producer, writer
Home, with Honor – Producer, writer, narrator
The Wall That Heals – Producer, writer
PTSD: The Invisible Enemy – Producer, writer
Pick Up Your Bed And Walk (in production) – Producer, writer
Honors
N.C. Sports Hall of Fame
National High School Hall of Fame
N.C. High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame
Garner Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement
James R. Stevens Service to Garner Award
Order of the Longleaf Pine
Twelve national Telly Awards
Two national Crown Awards
Garner Senior High Hall of Fame
Broughton High Hall of Fame
Brad Simmons
Videographer
Brad Simmons is an Emmy Award winning videographer from WRAL in Raleigh. He has been with Channel 5 since 1998. During his time there he has covered every major sporting event from Super Bowls to the Stanley Cup Finals, Final Fours to even the Olympics in 2016. Over the years He has worked side by side with Tom Suiter and Jeff Gravley and has covered thousands of high school football games for WRAL’s Football Friday.
Prior to WRAL, Brad graduated from East Carolina University and during that time learned even more about Eastern North Carolina as an intern for Brian Bailey at WNCT-TV in Greenville.
Brad was born and raised in Asheboro NC and knows full well the impact high school sports has not only on an individual but a whole community.
