In Awe by Bruce

What happens when a group of churches set aside their politics and join together to be the hands and feet of Jesus, to meet the needs of asylum seekers on our southern borders? Find out how strangers become friends, stereotypes are shattered, and lives are transformed.

 ACROSS, a new four-part documentary-series follows the journey of 3 refugee families and the Christians that step up to help. Without political agenda, ACROSS was created after the Maybe God podcast received an incredible outpouring from their episode “Can Loving Illegals Save Our Souls.”

Across Trailer on You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcZF7ny1Szc&t=3s

Streaming June 20

Julie Mirlicourtois

Julie Mirlicourtois is an award-winning supervising producer with 15 years of experience traveling the world to produce live, studio and taped television programming.
Julie produced innovative, ground-breaking television for Oprah Winfrey's daytime talk show and cable network for seven years. As a producer on "The Oprah Winfrey Show,"​ she worked closely with celebrities and newsmakers to craft compelling, exclusive stories for the show's international audience. Julie was part of a small production team charged with launching Oprah's flagship show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” on OWN. She conceptualized, field produced and edited many of the program's first episodes, including Oprah's visit to Joel Osteen's mega church in Houston, Governor Chris Christie’s home in New Jersey and Paula Deen's home in Savannah. She also traveled to Haiti with Oprah and Sean Penn to co-produce a two-hour special on the actor's camp for earthquake survivors.
As a supervising producer on a show she helped turn into one of the network's most-watched weekly programs, "Oprah: Where Are They Now?,"​ featuring celebrities and former Oprah Show guests, Julie was responsible for all stages of production – booking, budgeting, field producing, scripting, editing and multi-media promotion of her episodes.
Julie began her career at CBS's political talk show, "Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer."​ She went on to produce for the network's national morning show, "The Early Show."​ Working closely with the show's anchors, Julie covered major breaking news events including 9/11 and the Iraq war.
While living in New York, Julie founded and ran “Danyi's Children,” a non-profit organization with the mission of improving the lives of children in Danyi N’Dibge, Togo. Her philanthropic work was featured in Glamour magazine.
Julie moved to Houston in 2015 with her husband and children. She is currently working as the Media Director of The Story Church, where she created and executive produces the Maybe God Podcast (rated Top 100 Spirituality Podcasts by Apple in 2019) and is currently in-production on a feature documentary on immigration.

Per the W.H.O., Mental Disorders affect 1 in 4 in the world

From Cristobal:

“Let Me Have My Son is based on my personal experience coming to grips with my firstborn son’s struggles with severe mental illness. Daniel has suffered. His family has suffered. Yet all our troubles and heartache shall be redeemed. Of that I am sure. The hope of the resurrection is not a consolation prize; it is the cornerstone of the Christian faith and represents the very heartbeat of our movie.

 Let Me Have My Son is not a documentary, nor an effort to promote the latest scientific breakthrough or miracle cure for the scourge of mental illness. Nor is it our intention with the film to stir up controversy for the sake of controversy or advocate for sweeping changes in the mental healthcare system – even where change in the system might be indicated. More than anything else, Let Me Have My Son is intended as a heartfelt expression of the longing we all have as human beings to make sense of our greatest pain and suffering. I can speak from personal experience that medicine alone cannot solve the problem of mental illness. Indeed, if we are looking for doors of healing and understanding to open in this life only, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment beyond words.”

Streaming at:

LetMeHaveMySon.com

Cristobal Krusen

Cristóbal Krusen was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, the third of four children. Early in life, he showed a keen interest in literature, reading many of the classics while still in grade school and cherishing the ambition that one day he would become a writer. He entered Harvard University in 1971, majoring in English literature, intent on making his mark as a poet and novelist. A growing interest in photography and filmmaking, however, led him to transfer to New York University where he changed majors and graduated with a BFA in Film and Television in 1976. He later attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he received his MFA in Film in 1989.

Cristóbal founded Messenger Films in 1988 and has worked as a writer/director of film and television ever since, helming productions in more than twenty countries. He is best known for Final Solution, More Than Dreams, Undaunted, Sabina K. and most recently, Let Me Have My Son. Over the last several years, Cristóbal has also begun fulfilling his childhood dream of becoming a writer. He is the author of Undaunted, They Were Christians, and Let Me Have My Son.

Working in multiple languages as a filmmaker, Cristóbal is known for a poetic visual style and the ability to draw intimate performances from actors. Above all, he is a “storyteller” who delights to engage his audience while addressing the deepest needs of the human heart.

Let Me Have My Son is both a book and a streaming movie. Buy a ticket and the book at:

LetMeHaveMySon.com

From Oliver Asher:

"I'm not an extraordinary person. I came from next to nothing, from almost nowhere. But God had a plan and a purpose for my life. He picked me up from where I was and took me places I could never have expected to go. He invited me to join him in chasing his God-sized dreams for the world. And that is where I found invincible joy. 

“You may have the same story. Or at least you can, and I hope you will. That's what this book is for. I pray you will benefit from my story as you follow the Lord on your own adventure from where you came to where he wants to take you. I believe, as the Lord leads, you will end up with a stronger sense of God's purpose for your life and your place in his plan for the world. That's where you can find invincible joy too."

Oliver L. Asher

Oliver and his wife Andrea graduated from the University of Virginia, married, and moved to the Dominican Republic to be missionaries - all in the space of three months. Their life together with Jesus and their 5 children has continued to be an adventure. After completing his master’s in civil engineering at UVA, the Lord called Oliver to Advancing Native Missions after he had worked as an environmental engineer. Oliver has a passion for building teams. He loves encouraging the ANM staff; and both equipping, and advocating for native missionaries as they endeavor to reach the remaining unreached people groups of the world with the Gospel of Jesus.

https://www.oliverasher.com/

Advancing Native Missions

After 3,500 years, have we found Mount Sinai where Moses and the Israelites met God?

Have Exodus Explorers found the evidence? Filmmaker Timothy Mahoney completes his 20-year search for the true location of Mount Sinai where God gave the ten commandments. In this epic conclusion of a two-part series, Mahoney uses the Mount Sinai Scorecard to investigate the final three of the six most popular locations proposed for Mount Sinai.  See an amazing pattern of evidence and decide for yourself the mountain where Moses and the Israelites worship God.

IN THEATERS MAY 15, 17 ONLY!

Tim Mahoney

Timothy Mahoney is the award winning director of six feature films: Patterns of Evidence: Mt Sinai I & II, Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle I & II, Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy, and Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus. Tim is the founder of Thinking Man Films and Media, a Minneapolis, Minnesota based international documentary & publishing company.

Tim has spent almost 20 years exploring some of the biggest questions of the Bible and what they mean for our world today. His insatiable curiosity led him on a journey across the world interviewing some of the world’s leading Bible scholars, archaeologists, and historians to seek answers. What he’s uncovered is an amazing pattern of evidence that matches the events recorded in the Bible.

Tim was raised hearing that the stories in the Bible were true, but as he got older he was challenged to lose those beliefs. These questions led him on a trip to Egypt and the very location of the Exodus story. It was there that he experienced his own crisis of faith when told there was no evidence for this account. Undeterred, he had to know – were these foundational stories in the Bible true or not? This led him on a 12-year investigation resulting in the feature documentary Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus. This award-winning film and its companion book, Patterns of Evidence: A Filmmaker’s Journey challenged the traditional views of biblical criticism, demonstrating archaeological evidence that matched the Bible’s narrative. The balanced approach allowed audiences to decide for themselves if the Exodus was truth or myth.

A native Minnesotan, Tim’s hobbies include folk music and outdoor activities. Tim and Jill have been married for 40 years. They have four (4) married children and eight (8) grandchildren.

www.thinkingmanfilms.com

www.PatternsOfEvidence.com/MtSinai

Trailer: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12ugkHoC9Z39GZQu4Zv8CGHBBcD2skciS?usp=share_link

A daughter’s transition to adulthood can be even more stressful on mothers and daughters than the teen years. In this follow-up to her bestseller Dial Down the Drama, family therapist Colleen O’Grady helps you navigate this tumultuous time with an essential guidebook to this important stage of life and your evolving relationship.

Colleen O’Grady

Colleen O'Grady, MA, LPC is a licensed therapist and life coach who helps moms reduce drama, reclaim their lives, and dial up the dream with their teen and young adult. Colleen has a thriving private practice in Houston, TX and coaches’ moms from around the world.

After more than 50,000 hours of working with parents and teens -- and being a mom in the trenches with her own teenage daughter herself -- she published her best-selling book Dial Down the Drama: Reducing Conflict and Reconnecting with Your Teenage Daughter----A Guide for Mothers Everywhere. Her latest release, Dial Up the Dream: Make Your Daughter’s Journey to Adulthood the Best for Both of You (Page Two, May 1, 2022) is now available wherever books are sold.

Colleen is also the creator of the Power Your Parenting: How to Reconnect with your Teen (and Reclaim Your Life). This is a seven-week program with like-minded moms designed to transform negative patterns (drama) into a healthy, fun, loving connection with your teen while you reclaim a life you love.

Colleen has shared her message of practical hope with moms worldwide in Parents, The Wall Street Journal, popular parenting podcasts, and on the red carpet at TEDxWilmington. She is the host of the Power Your Parenting: Moms with Teens podcast, which has been ranked the number one podcast on parenting teens.

www.colleenogrady.com

Power Your Parenting: Moms with Teens  (podcast)

We live in a society where sources of hope are few and far between. Over the last two years, we have seen and experienced much turmoil and distress. It often seems like there is no escaping adversity, challenges and emotional upheaval.

“We need to rebrand hope. The era of everything in our lives fitting neatly in a box is done. That world is over,” Windle states. “We need hope—but we need a hope that is robust enough to speak to real life. And cancer. And trauma. And loneliness. I discovered something remarkable. Not only should we have room for hardship—but hope can take our hardest moments and turn them into our greatest growth.”

Pastor Benjamin Windle

Benjamin Windle is an innovative and empathic author and speaker. As a pastor for over 20 years, he’s walked with many people through the dark shadows and valleys of the human experience. He has dedicated his life to helping people overcome life’s challenges by growing deeper in their faith and reaching higher in life. Benjamin is a new-generation content creator for some of the most respected Christian brands in the world. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Cindi, and they have three sons. For more about the author, go to benjaminwindle.com.

Book release is April 18th

Order the Book:

Baker Publishing Group.

Angel Studios Distribution is set to release HIS ONLY SON to theaters on March 31, 2023 just in time for the Easter season.

It is one of the most controversial moments in all Scripture-- when the Lord God tested Abraham by commanding him to take his son, his only son, and sacrifice him on the mountain of Moriah. This feature film illustrates that striking account, following Abraham, his son and their two servants as they journey for three days to the place of the offering. Along the way, the men encounter dangers and trials as Abraham silently relives memories spanning the decades he and his wife, Sarah, longed for the son God had promised… the son he must now lay upon the altar.  Answering age-old questions as to why the Lord would require such a sacrifice, His Only Son profoundly explores mankind's relationship to God and encourages viewers to turn inward and ask: Can your faith still stand when you are asked to give everything?

David Helling

David Helling grew up in Southern Louisiana but spent the bulk of his teens in Texas. Upon graduating high school, David shipped to California for a five-year-stint in the United States Marine Corps– a commitment which eventually took him to the sands of Al-Anbar Province in Iraq. There in the desert, near the edge of ancient Babylon, in a combat zone, another battle was raging in David himself– a war within that eventually drove to the Bible. The result was a transformed heart, sincere faith and a burning desire to tell others of those Biblical accounts. Since then, David has made it his life’s mission to bring Scripture’s Truth from the page to the screen. This endeavor has resulted in many short films and scripts, garnering numerous awards, accolades and international attention– all which now culminate in his debut feature film, His Only Son.

Website: ​​https://hisonlysonmovie.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hisonlysonfilm/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hisonlysonfilm/?hl=en

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5HEpNSGmN

The ESPN of Christian Digital Destination, Pray.com delivers the resources to grow faith and cultivate individual and community lives. Making prayer a priority with daily devotionals is key. But you can also receive insight from the many podcasts, inspirational stories, specific subjects approached. Even sessions to help you sleep. Led by names you know and trust like Tony Evans, James Earl Jones reading the Bible, or Dr. Phil on Prayer Therapy and Jack Graham’s Bible in a Year, which just hit #1 on Spotify’s new religious podcasts. Listen and find out how to get all this for free, thanks to our interviewee, Matt Potter!

Matt Potter

Matthew Potter is a co-founder of Pray.com, the world’s #1 app for daily prayer and faith-based audio content, driven by a mission to grow faith and cultivate community. He brings expertise in the areas of strategizing change, building tech products and apps, and finding markets in the continuously evolving technology industry. At a time when Potter was looking for ways to give back and become more spiritually connected, he serendipitously ran into his friend Steve Gatena at a coffee shop in Santa Monica, Calif. He could tell Gatena had been struggling and they spoke of the recent loss of his friend and business partner in a plane crash, but how he was beginning to find hope again through prayer. Shortly after that divine run-in, Potter joined forces with Gatena to launch Pray.com, desiring to apply his expertise to do something bigger for the Kingdom of God. Before Pray.com, while he was still a student at Boise State University, Potter created HomeStack, a white label real estate app. HomeStack launched in 2012 and Potter served as CEO until he stepped down to become a part of the team at Pray.com. Potter continues to serve as Chairman of the Board for Homestack. In addition, Potter has developed over 60 apps. Calling Southern California home, Potter is from Westlake Village, Calif., and enjoys traveling to new countries, investing in real estate, and visiting new sports stadiums. In his spare time, he can be found participating in high adrenaline action sports such as wakeboarding, surfing, flyboarding and snowboarding. He currently serves on the board of trustees at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. Recently Potter has been featured on multiple podcasts including Seek. Go. Create. and The Mike Thakur Show.

About Pray.com

Founded in 2016 with a mission to grow faith and cultivate community, Pray.com is the world's No. 1 app for daily prayer and Bible-based audio content. It recently launched a 24/7 live streaming video channel, PrayTV. Reaching more than 10 million people worldwide through its mobile app and website, Pray.com is the easiest way to incorporate prayer into your daily life. Pray.com provides encouragement and inspiration through daily devotionals, Pastor podcasts, and Bedtime Bible Stories. Pray.com founders are Steve Gatena, Mike Lynn, Ryan Beck and Matthew Potter. 

Prayer.com

We were made in God’s image, which includes the ability to create and innovate. As Christians we credit God with all he creates and the creative abilities that he has endowed within us. The founding Father’s saw this privilege and therefore wrote protection of the creators rights and ownership of their creation into the constitution.

In the past 20+ years that has changed as politicians have altered our system. They have given the edge to large corporations. For the first time in over a century, we are now losing one of our greatest strength to the Chinese, who have now created their patent system to resemble the previous successful way the United States designed theirs. What can we do? Listen to our podcast with James Edwards.

James Edwards

Dr. James Edwards advises companies, trade associations, and conservative organizations on patent policy.  He is Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, is the patent advisor for the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, and Co-Director of the Inventor’s Project, and participates in the Medical Device Manufacturers Association’s Patent Working Group. Edwards mentors start-ups and early-stage companies, largely in the med tech space, and is involved in several IP-centric projects.

A Lincoln Fellow (1998) with the Claremont Institute and former speechwriter at the Republican National Committee, Edwards authored “Property Rights: The Key to National Wealth and National Security” and has been published in the Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Fox Business, RealClearPolicy, and IPWatchdog, to name a few. Edwards served as Legislative Director to Rep. Ed Bryant, R-Tenn., then a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and handled IP legislative matters. Edwards also worked on the staff of Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. In addition, he was an association executive at the Healthcare Leadership Council. Edwards earned a Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Georgia.

https://innovationracemovie.com/

https://www.property-rts.org/

Shhh... captures the rollercoaster ride of mental illness and provides valuable insights into coping with the shock, anger, and devastation of this challenging disease.

Most importantly, this book provides hope that there is always beauty amid the broken and that brighter days are ahead.

Don’t Miss her Conference!

see website link below

Hope For Caregivers Conference - March 3, 2023

K.T. Griffiths offers her first book, a memoir, to all those who face the realities of life and parenting. K.T. got her start in the fast-paced world of high fashion and modeling, and has assisted in the wardrobe and prop departments for numerous films. Her career passions have overlapped with a love for ministry, and she has decades of experience in leading women’s Bible studies, and mentoring young oms and career women. She is also active in the global missions committee at her local church, and has been responsible for allocating over six million dollars to missions and ministries over the past three years.

Her most prized titles, however, are Wife, Mother of 6, and Grandmother of 11. When one of K,T.’s children was diagnosed with a mental illness, that role as mother was so tried and tested that writing Shhh…Mental Illness, The Silent Disease and sharing her story became a necessity.  Known for her wisdom, honesty, and authentic empathy for the plight of others equipped her to explore and share the chaos of the mind amidst life’s relational struggles and help others emerge stronger than before. When not writing, speaking, or caring for her family, K.T. enjoys her ‘therapy’ - photography, painting, and a weekly date-night with her husband, a tradition that has lasted over 40 years.

 https://www.ktgriffiths.com/

Hope For Caregivers Conference - March 3, 2023

See website for speakers and times