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The Widow's Might Movie Review   By David Schamel

In November, our whole family went to Texas. We went to visit our friends the Moores. At their house, we watched a movie that John Moore produced called “The Widow’s Might“. The movie is about Cinemablog Productions competing in the American Viewfinder Film Festival. In the movie, John and his friend Cameron, make short films mostly for posting on the internet. One of their short films competes in the film festival and Cinemablog Productions is able to compete at the state level. For the state competition, they need to create a 30 minute film.

John and Cameron find out that their widowed neighbor, Grace Jackson, is unable to pay her property taxes because they had been increased a lot because a new highway had been built next to her house. John and Cameron want to help Mrs. Jackson. They make their movie a western musical that will outline Mrs. Jackson’s case so that people will notice what’s happening.

In the meantime, the election for Wringer City mayor was coming up. They did not like the previous mayor because he made property taxes too high. So, who will they get to be mayor? And what will happen to Mrs. Jackson?

The movie is very funny and is still a Christian film. I liked the movie because it was very entertaining and made me laugh. I would recommend that you see the movie. You can see “The Widow‘s Might“ at the San Antonio Film Festival in January, or buy it from John Moore at his website after the premier in January.

Pheasant Hunting     By Ben Schamel

Hunting has always been one of my favorite hobbies, because of a few things, it is challenging, and it requires skill( being a good shot), knowledge ( knowing the parts of the firearm, and what they do) and patience ( the challenging part.)

On the fifteenth of November 2008, my Dad and I were going to go on a guided pheasant hunt near Kiowa with the Cupit boys, Joe, Luke, and Nathaniel and their Dad Mr. Gary Cupit, who are very good friends of ours.

At 6:00 O’clock my Dad and I left the house to meet up with the Cupits in Elizabeth at the Safeway. After that we drove to the ranch were we were going to hunt. When we got there we checked in and met our guide and drove to the section of property that we were going to hunt. It was almost time to hunt, but first we had to load our shotguns, and the guide had to get out two of his dogs, the Cupits also brought their German shorthaired pointer, Clark.

Hunting with the dogs was a ton of fun, to see those dogs point out a pheasant and just stand there motionless until we drew close enough to get set up, then we would make them fly and shoot them down… sometimes.

So at the end of the day, we got nine pheasants all together, had a lot of fun, and had lunch with some brothers of like precious faith. And that is the tale of going pheasant hunting!

The Schamel's Go to Texas   By John Schamel

Uncle Gene & Aunt Vivi Renew their wedding vows

From the 6th - 9th of November my family and I went to Texas ,when we arrived in Dallas Texas (on the 6th ) it was very late so we ate and went to our hotel. The next day we ate ,did bible study ,went to Wal-Mart ,and then went to the Moore’s house. I played football ,capture the flag ,swung on a rope, and watched a movie called the Widow’s Might. Dad fellowshipped with Mr. Moore throughout the day. Then we had pizza at 7:00 pm afterwards we played pool and at 11:30 pm we ate cheeseburgers. We left at 12:30! My favorite activity was playing football.

      On the 8th I ate, put our bags in the car, and then we started down Abilene. Then we did Bible study in the car. Afterwards I fell asleep until we arrived at our Aunt Vivian and Uncle Gene’s house. We went down to see them because they were renewing their wedding vows. Uncle Gene was at a CPR class, so we let Aunt Vivian watch the Widow’s Might. Then some of her family got there and Uncle Gene arrived too. We ate supper and then I played dominos, finally, it was time for bed.

      On the 9th we got up ate, went to Church. After service we went to lunch at a buffet. Then we said goodbyes and drove up to Dallas to get on a flight back home.

Baby Update   By Melody Schamel

A few weeks ago, my 7 month old brother, Gabriel, started learning how to crawl.

He uses his knees and he moves his hands a little bit, soon he will be able to crawl. He is very funny to watch, because he looks like an inch worm. He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth, then plops forward. Then he gets up and does it again.

Like Gabriel, we as Christians, fall over and over again, but we have to get up and try again. Because Satan deceives us and tells us it is all in vain, we need God to help us get up again. I am going get up again, you should to.

Philippians: 4:13 says

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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