Luke 19:40

 ONe fateful summer, a boy will stay with someone who will change his life forever: his grandfather.  In a touching tale that starts with the building of a model airplane, life lessons are learned, borders are crossed, and freinds are made.  While he feels a need to reach out to Jacob in Bolivia, what will become of his summer? Or the rest of his life?

As an author considers the lack of imagination in modern play, he is affected by news gathering that reports the decline of toy stor sales.  He looks back over his childhood, pondering the little things that meant so much, and is led to a final, poignant question.

Extinct depicts a future culture whereby feminism has completely undermined the God-ordained purpose of boyhood. Childhood is no longer a time of play and creativity in preparation for leadership, fatherhood, and manhood. All things masculine are considered archaic, useless, and held in disdain. Set in a museum of natural history in the future, a young boy finds himself caught between the mandates his culture designed and his hidden yearnings to be the boy that God designed. Also competing in the Narrative category.

When faced with an unexpected health crisis, life for the Morris family was turned upside down. Through ups and downs at the hospital, trials of rejection, and just learning to cope with an ill family member, the Morris’ continued to face each difficulty by standing on the Word of God. Joel’s Journey is a story of family, hope, and truth.