On May 31, 2015 we moved out of our house in Lacey, WA. This is a reflection of the last 12 months away from home. When I wrote Perfect Swing in 2012 I had no idea the cost of resurrecting a dream to direct feature films with Jesus. While pursuing this dream it has costs us everything, but our family. Our house, my videography equipment, our car, all our money and most of our possessions. When we hit the road May 31st we had two moving trucks, one for donations and the other for a small storage facility in Sherwood, OR.
Only what fit in our Tahoe came with us when we decided to fully embrace the adventure of independent feature filmmaking with Jesus.
We were traveling light and here's some highlights of our year...
In-N-Out in Redding, CA to visit friends...
Bethel Church, Redding, CA
Disneyland with family
Grand Canyon - Leilani
Grandma and Grandpa Bunfill in Mt Sterling, IL
Our first new home of our own since our move in Winona Lake, IN right on the canal for the next 6 weeks. - June 2015
Working on the movie New Life - Nouvelle Vie as a family!
Here's the Behind the Scenes I created! Coming to theaters October 2016!
Time to hit the trail again! Heading south to Texas!
Stopping to see more family including Grandma Jump along the way.
Last stop in Shreveport, LA before Texas to visit the Erickson cousins...or is it? - August 2015
We were invited to scout our first golf course in Shreveport, LA for Perfect Swing and God told us to look no further. "We have arrived!" - Favor - Handed the keys to this golf course to make our movie. - August 2015
Finally made it to Dallas, TX to work on another production as the Animatic Editor for Hillary's America
The girls enjoyed the Dallas Zoo while I worked at the production office. During this production our financing for Perfect Swing got delayed. "God where do you want us to live now? Dallas, Shreveport or back home in Oregon?" - October 2015
Within 24 hrs of that prayer, perfect strangers, and now dear friends, heard from the Lord and told us Jesus wanted us to live here until our movie was complete. The Erickson family helped us move in after living with them for 7 weeks! Downtown Shreveport - Beautiful, Furnished, Rent Free! - October 2015
This is the storefront "Thrive" right next to our new home!
Thanksgiving with the Bunfill family!
Christmas Eve with cousins.
April's folks celebrated Christmas with us!
My parents brought in the New Year!
Mardi Gras Parade right outside our front door!
Spring at the Asian Gardens across the street. During this time I am editing 14 television episodes for The National Bible Bee Game Show.
Celebrating Easter with new friends in our home.
Playing the land as a family that God promised to us to make Perfect Swing!
Updating the screenplay, playing and praying over our golf course and letting God do the rest. - May 2016
We have decided to commit another year in Shreveport! We are hitting the road for summer vacation at the end of June, getting refueled and refreshed back home in Oregon and we are praying and expecting financial breakthrough for Perfect Swing on the way back to Shreveport in August. Will pre-production begin when we return? Stay tuned! God's got this!
The main theme of Perfect Swing is about how to receive your inheritance. There are three life stages that you must go through.
1. The Wilderness - 2. The Conquest - 3. The Promise Land
The Himes family is crossing over the Jordan and leaving the Wilderness and beginning our Conquest May 31, 2015!
The Wilderness may be the least popular but vital in the journey to your Promise Land! Our family has been blessed these last 12 years in Olympia, WA. Serving on staff at Church of Living Water as the Media Director and learning to trust God for our daily provision these last 7 years freelancing in the Christian Movie Industry, producing Behind the Scenes. We have received a lot of healing from fear of abandonment that God has forgotten about the dreams He gave us. I even came to a point of completely giving up on my dreams to make movies and God sent people to restore us and build as back up. The Wilderness has been a stripping away of fear and building up our faith on a solid foundation. In the Wilderness we have developed movies, written business plans, written screenplays, built relationships within the movie industry and established Perfect Swing Movie LLC to receive investments. The preparation for our Conquest is complete and it's time to make Perfect Swing!
Before the Israelites could posses their Promise Land they had to conquer it first. Our Promise Land is the establishment of our company Highwater Entertainment to create movies with life to impact audiences and empower artists by partnering with Jesus! So our Conquest is to empower artists in the movie industry by employing them to work on Perfect Swing so we can impact our audience with our finished film!
During the Conquest you are constantly on the move, for us that means we will be without our own home.
And Jesus said to them, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” - Matthew 8:20
During Jesus' ministry that's how he lived and the Israelites weren't allowed to build their own homes until their conquest was complete. I asked my girls if they were worried about not having a house for awhile, they responded boldly, "Not at all, we are excited for our adventure!" As I have conquered fear in my life through my relationship with Jesus it effects my children in powerful ways!
Pray for us as we begin our epic conquest! All of our stuff is going into storage and all that we will have will be in our Chevy Tahoe. We will be traveling to Portland, Redding and La Verne to be with friends and family and than we will be traveling from Southern California across country to Winona Lake Indiana to produce Behind the Scenes for the feature Nouvelle Vie and begin to recruit and get to know more cast and crew for Perfect Swing. At the end of July we will be heading to Dallas Texas to join our producer for Perfect Swing, Chad Gundersen. Pray for our funding to be available to us at the perfect time. Once the funds are released we can start pre-production! This conquest would be a lot easier to start with the funds in the bank, but that wouldn't make it a conquest would it! We are trusting for Jesus to lead us every step of the way and to provide everything we need, when we need it. He didn't abandon us in the Wilderness so we know He will be with us in the Conquest. It's time to march around cities until the walls fall and slay some giants!
The journey begins May 31, 2015! Follow the adventure right here! Who's with us?
