Sharing Stories of Redemption

Regent partners helped this alum launch a career to inspire and uplift audiences.

Award-winning screenwriter, producer, and now children’s author Cheryl McKay (SCA ’95) has spent her career creating and sharing redemptive stories that inspire and uplift. Cheryl built the foundation for her success at Regent University’s School of Communication and the Arts.

To the donors who made her journey possible, she says, “Today, it’s more important than ever to raise up leaders with a Christian point of view, who are going to get the messages out there, whether it’s through media, news, or filmmaking.”

Your investment in Cheryl is now bringing biblical truth to mainstream media.

As Chief Creative Officer of Stone Impact Media, she’s the artistic force behind the award-winning, family-drama series These Stones—now available on UP Faith & Family, Redeem TV, and Amazon. “It’s like a modernized Touched by an Angel,” she explains. “But it features Bible characters who enter present day to help people through crises.”

Cheryl’s impressive Hollywood screenwriting credits include The Ultimate Gift (starring the late James Garner and Brian Dennehy), Indivisible, and Extraordinary. She also co-authored the Carol Award-winning novel Never the Bride, which she adapted into a screenplay franchise.

Thanks to the support of friends like you, God is using Cheryl to plant seeds of faith in young hearts.

Her latest venture, Potter Knows Best, is a faith-based children’s book series. “The heart of the whole series is how God makes us into who we’re supposed to be,” she shares.

“Every book highlights a different part of self-esteem to show we’re perfectly and wonderfully created by God.”

Behind her impressive career is a deep gratitude for the generous donor support that made her Regent degree possible: “Scholarships are vital for people to be able to afford the kind of education that equips us to go out and change the world.”

Your gifts allowed Cheryl to graduate nearly debt-free and move to Los Angeles to launch her career.

“Had I not had those scholarships, it would’ve been so much longer before I could have worked on breaking into the industry.”

But Cheryl envisions even greater kingdom impact ahead. She wants your help to see the university equip even more students who will transform culture for God’s glory:

“We need to have the right voices out there because there’s a lot of noise in the media right now,” she insists. “We need to raise up the next generation.”