Never Look Down

Curious as to what GHProductions has been up to lately?

Fall of 2014 we produced this 7 minute documentary on Down syndrome that won the award for best documentary at the Colorado Film School student show! What an amazing project it was to work on.
Every life is beautiful.

CHEC Conference

 

Glory in the Highest Productions is going to have a booth at the Christian Home Educators of Colorado Supper Conference on the Family!

We will be at booth Y25 in the Young Entrepreneur’s section.

Be sure to come and visit us! We’d love to see you there!

 

For more information about attending the conference see www.chec.org.

 

Stories from 'The Journey': Part 2

One very memorable story from the making of The Journey was the events of an entire day of shooting. A day that has now been titled Snake Day.

It was a bright morning in the middle of our last week of shooting. Only about six actors were there that morning plus a couple of crew members. Most of them were teens, but we had one little kid and only one adult on set. As we were walking down to the house where shooting was going to take place, one of the boys saw a snake that, according to our distance from the critter, looked like a rattlesnake. So we called the snake catchers at our shooting location. They came down and scared the snake into its hole after confirming that it was a bull snake and not a rattlesnake. So we proceeded, but of course after the snake people left, Mr. Bull Snake decides to come out of his hole and hang around the set for 4 hours. Thanks to our heroic set guys who served as snake patrol that whole time, we were able to continue on. After a while we lost the bull snake in the wall of the house we were shooting in front of just as snake patrol caught sight of a rattlesnake on the other side of them (it was really a rattler this time). Everyone but snake patrol evacuated the area and the adult on set called the snake catchers again. Meanwhile, the technical director, me, and a couple of actors headed towards the “inn” to shoot a different scene. On our way up a man warned us that he had seen a different, huge snake go into the building we had to shoot in. We sent our technical director in to check and he took one step in before jumping back and saying, “I don’t know what kind of snake it was, but it was big.” Just then, the staff at our location arrived to help, but the trained snake catchers were not on the premises. By this time the rattlesnake had been lost in the same wall that the first snake had been lost in. The people from the office couldn’t do anything about the rattler, but they bravely faced the 6 ft long, 4 in wide bull snake that we had found in the “inn.” They chased him into his hole, but his hole was inside the building. Now the question was, how do we shoot this scene? Our set guys again came to the rescue and one of them offered to stand guard over the hole while we got the shot. By the time we finished it was lunchtime and lots of little kids were arriving for an afternoon shot. So here we were after this intense morning and we couldn’t talk about it because we didn’t want the little kids to freak out. After lunch we looked in the house we lost the snakes in and saw the outline of a snake in the plastic hanging from the roof. Once we found the snake, we remembered that we had to spend the whole next day shooting underneath that roof! But the Lord answered our many prayers by keeping the snakes away the rest of the week and giving us all peace and our snake patrol. Perhaps the best part of the story is the perspective that one of the moms gave in the midst of all our worries, “Don’t worry, after all, what’s the worst that could happen? Someone gets bit, they go to the hospital, they don’t die. It makes a memory.”

 

50% off sale on 'The Journey'

To celebrate the Christmas season and the birth of our Lord, Glory in the Highest Productions is having a 50% off sale on their Christmas movie The Journey! Until December 31st, 2011 The Journey is available for only $5 (plus $3 for shipping)! Click the "Buy Now" button on the right side of your screen to place your order. We hope you enjoy the movie!
Merry Christmas!

The Journey

This year, a group of 56 kids led by a 14 year old, joined forces to do something big, something beyond themselves, something uncommon, to bring glory to God and to build His church. The product is a 67 minute long movie that we pray will bless others and honor our Savior…

Glory in the Highest Productions

Presents…

The Journey

Four questions, one answer…

Four lives, one journey…

In 5 B.C. Israel is suffering under the rule of the

Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus. Hopelessness reigns among the people.

A Roman librarian in northern Israel is weary of serving numerous Roman gods who have left him without purpose in life.

A young orphan girl longs for something wonderful to fill her.

A Jewish peasant is sure that God has forgotten him and his people.

A lonely beggar girl is determined that no one will love her.

Four lives unite on a desperate journey, following the prophecies in the Jewish Torah to a small town in southern Israel. Will their longings ever be fulfilled?

Watch the trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx1kjiswUU

You may purchase this 67 minute long, family friendly movie, at www.GloryInTheHighestProductions.com for $12 including shipping, or order here at abidingmom.blogspot.com!

Please enjoy it and may the Lord bless you through it!

Movie Price Change on the GHP Website!

We are pleased to announce that we have decreased the price of The Journey on our website! If you visit www.githproductions.com you can purchase The Journey DVD for $12.00 instead of $15.00! Have a blessed day!

Director's Thoughts

           I think what I would say to any kid who dreams of doing big things for God is this: “Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” (1 Timothy 4:12)  God created all of us for big things and we don’t need to be grown-up to glorify Him. We have learned so much through making The Journey about people, movies, administration, media, and so much about God. I would strongly encourage every person to do something “impossible” for God in their lifetime. Something so beyond themselves that it is impossible unless God comes and lifts them up and makes them soar.

So often I feel inadequate and wonder why in the world He picked me to direct this work, but then God always reminds me that it is through my inadequacy that Christ is made strong in me. It is so easy to know that God overcomes the impossible, but you can’t really believe it until you come face to face with both God and the impossible. Our culture needs men and women and boys and girls who are willing to follow Christ wherever He leads. People who will stand for truth and do the good works God prepared in advance for them to do. He died on the cross to save us from the penalty of our sin and He is calling us to join the battle for the souls of men, women, and children in our city, our country, and into the world. Will you go on the journey He has for you?

GHP at the CHEC Homeschool Conference in CO!

GHP will have a booth at the Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) conference June 16^th-18^th in the Denver Merchandise Mart. We will be in the Young Entrepreneur’s section of the exhibit hall selling The Journey. Can’t wait to see you there!

Stories from 'The Journey': Part 1

               Many interesting things happened during the making of The Journey. Some events were humorous, some were educating, and some reminded me of important things about God, His church, and our spiritual walk in general. The story I’m going to tell now took place during post production and is one of the most important things that I think I learned the whole production.

               Shooting had been over for about a month—maybe a month and a half, but we still hardly had any editing done. We had imported everything to the hard drive and grant it, that was a big accomplishment, but I had hoped to be all done before the end of September and it was already October. Things were complicated because we did not own the main computer we were using and someone else owned the other computer. It was tough to put everyone’s schedules together and make it work to get the movie finished. My family and I were frustrated and didn’t know if we should try something else or wait and be patient. It got so bad, I was ready to throw in the towel and give up. I just did not want to deal with it anymore! Of course I knew I wasn’t really going to give up, but my reason was that I remembered all the families who had been a part of it and thought of how upset they’d be with me if all their hard work was wasted. I will also admit that I felt like it was necessary to have me there to complete the project or else it would never get done. Well, things started working out and the Lord was answering our prayers beyond what we hoped for and we hit the editing hard. However; God had not finished teaching me His important lesson yet. One of our first hard days of editing I admitted to the editing team that I had been ready to give up on the whole project. I wasn’t sure what the response would be, but one that I got surprised me. Our technical director said, “You know, if you would have quit, it would have taken me a while to finish, but after a long time I would have come to you and said, ‘Here you go. Here is The Journey.’” I thought that was pretty cool, but it wasn’t until later that I fully appreciated the statement. Sometime later that day I was thinking about what the technical director said and God almost audibly said, “The point is that this is MY project that I chose to use you for. You can quit or you can keep going, but I am going to complete this project whether you’re a part of it or not.” That may sound firm, but it was the most loving thing for me at that moment and was exactly what I needed to hear. I was ready to move on after that, and I did not consider quitting for the rest of the project.

This story reminds me of a quote from Thomas Edison:

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

God gives us work to do for His kingdom and He wants us to follow through with it, but the encouraging thing about it is that He doesn’t leave us to do it alone. He is there the whole time and HE is the one who completes the work. That is why God gets all the glory and we get the amazing reward of seeing Him work through us in spite of, our weaknesses, our failures, and our doubts.  

The Next Step

Well The Journey was an amazing experience! We learned so much and had so much fun! Now it is time to start writing the next one! I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas so I wanted to ask, what are your ideas? What would you like to see us do and learn? What kind of stories do you like to watch? Feel free to post your comments and let me know, I will be taking everything into consideration.

 "⁹Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,
   'Behold, I have put my words in your mouth...'"
Jeremiah 1:9

May the Lord do so during this new project!

This year, 56 kids joined forces to do something big, something beyond themselves, something uncommon, to bring God glory and build his church. For 8 months we toiled together and the product is a 67 minute long movie that we pray will bless others and honor our Savior.

Glory In The Highest Productions

Presents…

The Journey

Four questions, one answer…

Four lives, one journey…

In 5 B.C. Israel is suffering under the rule of the Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus. Hopelessness reigns among the people.

A Roman librarian in northern Israel is weary of serving numerous Roman gods who have left him without purpose in life.

A young orphan longs for something wonderful to fill her.

A Jewish peasant is sure that God has forgotten him and his people.

A lonely beggar girl is determined no one will love her.

Four lives unite on a desperate journey, following the prophecies in the Jewish Torah to a small town in southern Israel.

Will their longings ever be fulfilled?

Watch the trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx1kjiswUU

You can purchase this movie for $15 at www.gloryinthehighestproductions.com.

We pray that you are blessed and encouraged through it!