This video was featured on CNN of a young girl with incredible drawing talent. Paintings Inspired by GOD Akiane Kramarik

60 Minute Documentary – First Aired Nationally on PBS in 1999. Emmy Winner.

In the early 1990′s while filming a Presidential Election in Guatelmala City, Film maker John Biffar met an American woman, Kari Engen. She had traveled to Guatemala City several years earlier on a mission to help poor, and hungry children. When she arrived in Guatemala city she learned of the plight of the children, many lost and abandoned. Living on the streets – After all, this was “The Third World.” But then she learned of the children living in the dump. An entire subculture of people in a trash pile. This was “The Fourth World.” Her life’s mission has become helping these children to escape the deadly grasp and cycle of life in the dump. Her program, Mi Refugio is the result. John has documented her struggles, triumphs and tragedies for two decades. This documentary was produced in the late 1990′s by Bush Entertainment and Trilogy Media, John’s production company. Hosted by and Narrated by Film Actress Ali MacGraw. We are known as Dreamtime Entertainment today. I edited and filmed much of this program and it’s a touching and an emotional rollercoaster as it was when I edited way back then on our Media 100 editing system. It still gives me the shivers. I hope you enjoy this program and it inspires you to change the world too. Like Kari is still doing.

Mi Refugio is a nonprofit corporation with tax exempt status (#52-1610744) in the USA.

Dave Says, “This program is not another video about a religious mission to convert people, it’s not about a religious anything. It’s about one person following her heart. Dedicating her life and all she believes to helping these children, and their families have a better life. For those of us in the US, this documentary gives us evidence that the SMALLEST thing, the most insignificant thing in our lives here in this country could be HUGE for a child living in a Central American dump. But amidst all that dirt and despair, a light can shine through it all…powered by belief that it can be changed. And the most humble person with no means at all, can make that change a reality. According to Kari, that happens when we look into our hearts and ask god. (or whatever deity it is that you believe in, or if you don’t believe in any, then ask…just ask and see if you get an answer back)

Writer and Director John Biffar, Executive Producer Paul Bush, Cameramen John Biffar, Dave Beaty, Flip Minott, Bob Hite, Music Kat Epple, Editing Dave Beaty

On Youtube you can create a Playlist of your favorite worship videos. You can then quickly access them and play back this programing at your leisure. And the reason why I’m suggesting this is so that you might use this as a tool for reprogramming your mind to only allow what is wholesome and pure to exist there. Because turning on the news after diner is a habit for so many people. Are you being feed garbage when you do that? Yes you are! So please take the time and better yet, make the time to be filled with words and songs that are pleasing to the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21
equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I also find that playing worship songs in the morning while the kids are getting ready for school helps calm the chaos. And I hope that they will be humming worship tunes throughout the day as I do.

More information on How to make a playlist – YouTube Help Center

SOUL SURFER is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, inspiring millions worldwide through the love of her family, her sheer determination, and her unwavering faith in Jesus Christ. The film features an all-star cast, including AnnaSophia Robb and Helen Hunt, with Carrie Underwood in her film debut, and Dennis Quaid.

Bethany (played by AnnaSophia Robb) was born to surf. A natural talent who took to the waves at a young age, she was leading an idyllic, sun-drenched, surfer girl’s life on the Kauai Coast, competing in national competitions with her best friend Alana (Lorraine Nicholson), when everything changed in a heartbeat. On Halloween morning, Bethany was on a typical ocean outing when a 14-foot tiger shark came out of nowhere and seemed to shatter all her dreams.

In the wake of this life-changing event that took her arm and nearly her life, Bethany’s feisty determination and steadfast faith spur her toward an adventurous comeback that gives her the grit to turn her loss into a gift for others.

Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones star in the new HBO Film “The Sunset Limited.” Jackson is rooted in the Bible and knows Jesus, Tommy Lee is a Professor who has had enough of the world and wants to kill himself. The two argue and discuss the common Atheist and Christian views on life.

My favorite quote from the movie was from Tommy Lee:
“The argument of the village atheist who’s single passion is to revile endlessly that which he denies the existence of in the first place.”