Joel's Journey: More on Joel's DVD!!!!!!!

Saturday, September 15, 2007

More on Joel's DVD!!!!!!!

John-Clay recently entered Joel' Journey into the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival which is with the Vision Forum. Today we found out it was entered in the Documentary Semi-final round of the competation. This is so exciting!!!!!!! Praise the Lord and a job well done to John-Clay. This is the e-mail that was sent to John-Clay!

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YEEAA!!!!! I GOT IT!!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!
JC
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Forwarded MessageFrom: San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:53:50 -0500To: John-Clay Burnett Subject: 2007 SAICFF - Joel's Journey

Dear John-Clay,
Thank you for your submission of Joel's Journey to the 2007 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. We greatly value your submission and can see the hard work put into your film. Your work was joined by over 120 other films, from which our judges had to narrow the competition down to less than 40 semi-finalists. Congratulations! Your film has been selected for the semi-final round of the competition, and qualifies you to compete for category awards and the grand prize Jubilee Award for Best of Festival. As a semi-finalist, your film will be shown at least once during the Festival, and possibly twice before the viewing audience (though a double showing is not guaranteed). Times have yet to be determined, but will be posted on the San Antonio Independent Christian Films website soon.We are strongly encouraging filmmakers who have been accepted as semi-finalists for the Jubilee Awards to attend the festival. In addition to the $10,000 Jubilee grand prize, more than a half dozen first place awards will be distributed this year, and your film could qualify. We would like to know whether not you will be attending the 2006 SAICFF October 19th-21st. Please let us know as soon as possible, so that we can make plans to welcome you at the sign in table. Some filmmakers may also be given an opportunity to address the audience briefly about their film. I also recommend that you consider attending the 2007 Christian Filmmakers Academy, to be held October 22-24 at the Marriott Riverwalk Hotel in Downtown San Antonio. It will provide a valuable opportunity to learn from a distinctively Christian perspective how to advance in your technical skills as a filmmaker. Be sure to watch the website for updates regarding both the Academy and the Festival. We hope to see you there!

The Vision Forum Staff
www.independentchristianfilms.com
www.visionforumministries.org

3 comments:

LJR said...: Congratulations! What an honor. I know its just going to be an amazing dvd
Lori (Emma's Mom); September 15, 2007 at 7:23 PM
Christine said...: How exciting!; September 15, 2007 at 8:19 PM
redhead82001 said...: Congratulations what a fine young man you are to have this opportunity you parents I am sure are very pround as well as the Morris Family.; September 16, 2007 at 9:46 AM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.