Month: March 2011

Most of our reports are from inside “the classroom”. We thought it might be interesting to share some of the great news about “our guys” who have graduated and been released.

We now have many graduates who have been out for nearly a year and half. Most are working back in the community, staying plugged into their churches and raising their families. Here’s just a few stories; one of our guys works with the Veteran’s Administration, another works full time as a butcher, another is working in sales, one is working full time at a substance treatment center, two are working full time in the television industry and many others, many are volunteering with HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS, giving back.

But it’s not just about working. We’ve also seen at least one marriage saved and many families that have been reconciled. We now have half a dozen of our graduates regularly attending the Tinseltown Bible Study. One young man is back in college getting his degree. Plus many more successes.

God has really changed these men’s lives and we’re seeing what that change means. Please continue to pray for this ministry, our instructors and our graduates.

We have just begun semester #6 at the Pitchess Detention Center. We’ve decided to do somthing a little different, though. Instead of starting with a brand new class and all new students, we decided to do an “advanced” class using our students from semester #5; a kind of “Hollywood Impact Studio 201” class; building on what they learned last semester. We are having to take on some new student/inmates to make up for those who have left Pitchess. We will be starting with 20 students.

This semester is entitled, “Preparing For Broadcast”. Our student/inmates will edit, title and prepare all of our previous ABOVE THE LINE episodes to “air” on the LASD TV channel hopefully sometime in the summer.

As we’ve said in the past, we want HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS to act like a real studio, not just a school and this is just another step. Next entry we will share some of what God is doing with our guys after they get out.

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