[2] He and his wife Annelie Rudlaff started "The Wayhouse Christian Film Library" in 2001 by loaning out Christian books and VHS movies in Buena Vista, Colorado out of their home and showing a few films to the public in their town's chamber of commerce building.

He started a specialist Christian films website called CFDb, after doing some research on IMDb.

He was unable to claim the title of CMDb, because that domain name was taken by another Christian music website.

[4] On March 13, 2013 CFDb and the crowdfunding website FaithLauncher announced a strategic alliance.

"[7] On January 1, 2010, there were approximately 1,250 films listed on CFDb, with more added weekly.