• How Does Your Garden Grow?
  
• Writing "The Shack": Author Paul Young
• Uncle Nino Brings Family Together Again
• Apostles of Comedy Reunite for Spring Tour
• "Saving God" Song Contest
• A Mom's Take on "Knowing"
  
• Keeping the Faith
• Dove Review: Faith Like Potatoes
  

Hi <<First Name>>,

I live in what's fondly known as the salad bowl of the United States, California's Central Valley. Every day I drive past citrus and nut orchards, vineyards and dairies. All of this is overshadowed by the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains.

When spring bursts upon us, I get excited about planting flowers and vegetables. I want my yard to bloom with bursts of brilliant color, and I want to step outside my back door to pick the ingredients for my salsa. Then common sense rears its head. Do I really want to spend an hour or two a day weeding plants and checking for bugs?

I did plant a couple of grape vines in the fall. They lost their leaves in the winter, and I wondered if they would survive the cold. Then suddenly last week I saw buds on the plants, and this week leaves burst out. I was so excited I sent a text message to some of my friends and even updated my Facebook account.

I'll never be a master gardener, but I do enjoy seeing the fruit of my labors. My yard won't be perfectly tended, and it will never be free of weeds or bugs. But I have a new appreciation for God as the gardener of our lives, and understand a little bit more about being connected to the vine.

From the screening room and the back yard,

Angela Walker
ChristianMovieNews.com

Industry Interview
Writing "The Shack": Author Paul Young
by Angela Walker

In 2007, author William Paul Young ignited a firestorm within the Christian and publishing communities with his novel The Shack. Originally written as a story for his children, he had no idea that the allegory of his own journey would rise to the top of the New York Times' Bestseller list, the USA Today Bestseller list, and that of any other publication tracking book sales.

You originally wrote the story for your family. How has it impacted them?

Paul:    I thankfully have a very healthy family. I’ve got six kids who all love Jesus. They all have their own relationship with him. I didn’t write this story to try to communicate something to them so they’d change. If anything, it has opened up our conversations about people because we’re around all kinds of people now that we weren’t before.

If anything, it has profoundly increased our respect for the human creation and for the incredible wonder that’s inside of people. It doesn’t matter if they’ve got position or power or money; those kinds of things really don’t matter at all, and we get to be around a lot of people that we wouldn’t have otherwise. It is such an incredible joy.

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by Angela Walker

Uncle Nino, an elderly Italian peasant, comes to America for the first time to spend some time with his nephew Robert Micelli and his family. With his violin, a suitcase full of homemade wine, and a photo of his hero Abraham Lincoln in hand, Nino expects to be embraced by his long-lost family. What he discovers instead is take-out food, manicured lawns, teen smoking, processed vegetables, and a barely communicative family.

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America's funniest clean comedians, Jeff Allen, Brad Stine, Ron Pearson and Anthony Griffith, who together make up the Apostles of Comedy, team up again to take the stage for a second national tour. The four comics worked together in the fall of 2008 on a successful tour in support of the release of The Apostles of Comedy: The Movie.  The film and Fall 2008 tour received rave reviews from Christian and secular audiences and media outlets throughout the country.  Apostles of Comedy is groundbreaking inspirational entertainment that is family friendly and has already proven to be a smash hit.

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Saving God, the recent DVD release by Cloud Ten Pictures and Clear Entertainment starring Ving Rhames, has been inspiring audiences and winning film festival awards across the nation. Now distributors Cloud Ten Pictures, best known as producers of the popular Left Behind series of films, are hosting the "Be Inspired Saving God Song Contest," which allows individuals the opportunity to have their original songs inspired by the film released nationwide on a compilation CD, "Songs Inspired by Saving God."

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A Mom's Take on "Knowing"

by Lynne Thompson

Knowing sets the stage for very significant discussions about worldview. For instance, if one believes in a random universe where human existence just “showed up,” how does that affect the way you currently live? Is life one existential merry-go-round, or is there an intelligent being who put us here? Should faith fall by the wayside when we lack current empirical evidence?

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Truth Prevails: The Undying Faith Of Jan Hus - DVD He could either deny the truth or die at the stake	The Case For Faith - DVD A journalist investigates the toughest objections to Christianity...
Heroes Of The Faith Collection - DVD Enjoy 6 powerful stories of Heroes of the Faith from over 2000 years of Christianity	The Timeless Concert Of Faith & Inspiration - DVD The greatest songs ever written, sung by the artists that defined a generation, creating a one of a kind performance.
Faith Under Fire Vol. 1: Faith & Jesus - DVD The first in a new DVD curriculum series from Lee Strobel	Mission: God At Work Faith In Action - DVD Here are 24 mission stories from around the world that show the amazing diversity and power of God's Spirit at work.

The seed for a great miracle lies not in difficulty, but impossibility.

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Faith Like Potatoes - DVD

This is a very touching and moving story of one man's trials and tribulations which try his faith. Angus is a very intense man who fights his own inner demons with his farm in Africa and family until he makes a life changing discovery. He turns his life around when he gives it to God. With new found faith that is challenged by many different circumstances he must believe that the Lord has a plan for him.