@ Lutheran Hour Ministries @LHM @NRB – Hollywood Impact Studios

December 29, 2018

8th ANNUAL ANGEL TREE – 2018

Our 8th Annual Angel Tree Gift Giving Event was a great evening of fun, fellowship but most of all giving gifts and showing God’s love to those children in need. For those who may not know, Angel Tree is a ministry of Prison Fellowship. Volunteers go out and buy gifts for children with an incarcerated parent. Statics show that keeping a relationship between an incarcerated parent and their children greatly reduce the chance of those children going to jail or prison.

As in past years, we start out at In N Out Burgers for dinner and fellowship. One of the neat things about this is that we get to connect with past Hollywood Impact Studio friends that we may not have seen since last year. It’s a time to catch up and hear their success stories. Praise God! Thank you to In N Out for your excellent food and service.

Then after a great meal, we loaded onto the Grace Baptist bus and Eden Ministries van and headed to Pacoima. Thank you Grace Baptist Church and Eden Ministries for allowing us to use your vehicles and to Bob Amstutz for volunteering to drive the bus.

We delivered gifts to (5) family, 15 children. We also had a fun time singing some Christmas carols through the neighborhoods. We may not have the greatest voices, but it is all to God’s Glory.

And we had our annual end of the evening photograph of everyone. Again what a great evening. Thank you to everyone who attended and to those who pray for this ministry.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! Excited to see what God does through this ministry in 2019!

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018

HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS – ALUMNI – News & Update

Our HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS/LASD ALUMNI CONTINUUM (wow that’s a mouth full) continues to grow. For those who may not know, this is a support group for those family members who have someone who is incarcerated and for those who have gotten out of jail and prison. It’s a safe place to discuss everything. Help with jobs, housing, and everyday struggles. We meet every Tuesday night from 7 PM to 9 PM at Grace Baptist Church in Santa Clarita.

For the past seven years, we have gone out and supported Angel Tree, (a ministry of Prison Fellowship). We go out buy Christmas gifts for children of the incarcerated and give those gifts to the children making sure they know it is from their incarcerated parent. Research has shown that if you keep a relationship between the child of an incarcerated parent and their parent intact, the chances of that child ending up in jail/prison drops dramatically.

Our annual tradition is to meet at In N Out Burgers for dinner.

Then we load into vans and head out to sing Christmas carols and deliver the gifts.

It was a great night. We had 22 Hollywood Impact-ers volunteer for this year’s event.

Thanks to all who helped. And thank you to Prison Fellowship for offering this ministry.

August 5, 2017August 6, 2017

MIRACLE MOUNTAIN – News & Updates

We held our first class on Miracle Mountain and solved a problem at the same time. The problem: we had a huge bee hive inside a wall of the big house on the lower compound.

The solution:

We brought down master bee keeper Art Hall from San Jose to teach “Introduction to Bee Keeping”.

After some classroom instruction we headed to the wood shop to build bee hives (the bees new home).

We had sixteen students of different ages and background. All were very enthusiastic and involved. Lots of good bonding time, laughter and fellowship, though you wouldn’t know it by our facial expressions (except Richie!).

Even a few of the our kids helped in building the bee hives.

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Then it was back to the classroom to try on our bee suits.

Whew! all that on Friday…

Saturday we suited up and headed to the lower compound to begin the process of moving our visitors to their new home.

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It was an extremely long day, and hot! The bees were not as enthusiastic as we were so progress was slow, but we still needed to get our new bees safely into their new home.

Sunday we housed them and moved them into their new neighborhood. No, not Sesame Street. Bees need to be in full sunlight and besides, Oscar wouldn’t be thrilled with bees digging around in his garbage!

We also learned how to take care of our new bees in their hive and the bee hive that Art (our instructor) donated. We learned it’s best to have two bee hives so you can tell if something is wrong with a hive, or not.

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On Monday we learned the profession of bee keeping, harvesting honey, wax and propolis. We tasted honey from our very own hive and said goodbye to our instructor.

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It was truly an excellent class. Learned a lot and saved a hive of bees an preserved our environment and will tie in nicely to our organic gardening class, but that’s for another time down the road.

Thanks be to God for keeping us all safe, even in the heat and a special thank you to Art Hall, Master Bee Keeper!

March 6, 2017

HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS – News & Updates

HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS flew to Florida to attend the NRB Convention… (National Religious Broadcasters). We had meetings set up to sell the THIS IS THE LIFE – Classic TV Series and MIRACLE MOUNTAIN Reality show.

It was also great to hang out with our friends from Lutheran Hour Ministries. Really great people who love the Lord!

We flew in two day before the convention so we took a side trip to Daytona 500 Speedway for opening trials. Loud but a lot of fun.

We also went by Mount Dora… not too sure about the “Mount” part, but it was a beautiful little town. Saw this sea plane at sunset.

The convention was a success. We had many great meetings and I think ultimately HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS is going to be in the TV producing business.

On my way back to the car to fly back to LA, this was the view God gave me. Nice way to end a terrific trip.