Category Archives: Family

Alberta Conservatory for Christian Film Makers

On September 17th, Mom, Andrew and I drove to Alberta for a film conference. We had a great weekend learning a lot about cameras, sound, editing, philosophy of Christian Film, and more!

interviews at accfm

Some of the speakers  were:

Rich Christiano- Timechanger, The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, A Matter of Faith, etc.

Joel Jost- Jostie flicks

Greg & Dallas Lammiman- MovieMakers Team

Justin Lewis – has acted in 4 feature films including playing Justin in Polycarp

The above picture is from interviews we did with most of the speakers. I’ll get a short video out soon Lord willing.

 

The Filmmakers Intensive ended off with a three minute film festival, in which we won the Rookie Filmmakers Award with “In the Beginning God”!

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Here we are receiving the award!

 

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Justin Lewis teaching Andrew on acting (he’s the guy in the middle).

 

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On Thursday night, there was a flimmaking demo, so I operated the sound recorder, while Andrew did the slate.

If you would like to find out more about this conference, check out accfm.ca

 

 

 

Grandpa!

June 11, 1918 – September 12, 2015

My grandpa, Frank Derksen, age 97, died peacefully at Goodwill Manor Care Home, Duck Lake on Saturday, September 12, 2015, following a 2 month stay in the Rosthern Hospital. He was born in Osterwick, South Russia. He immigrated to Canada at age 5. He was well known and respected in the Rosthern area, where he owned and operated Rosthern Agencies, until age 72. Grandpa was actively involved in the church and community. He will be missed by his family. Here are a few pictures of him.

Grandpa at age 90.

His 90th Birthday!

 

Grampa on his scooter.

His scooter which brought him all over Rosthern and even out into the country!

We thank God for the many years He gave to our grandpa!

Happy Canada Day!

Today, in the great celebrations of this grand day, we are…

Hoeing Potatoes!

Hilling Potatoes!

While we remember our last Canada Day adventure- climbing the volcanic Mt. St. Helens!

Happy Canada Day!

Now for a bit of a history lesson:

July 1st was christened Dominion Day at Confederation. It was taken from Psalms 72: 8

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Sadly, in 1982, Dominion Day was changed to Canada Day. This change sneaked in right before the summer recess on a Friday afternoon, when there were only about 13 members present in Parliament, 7 short of the official quorum. The result was one more way Canada is turning away from the LORD!

 

What’s Another Word for Thesaurus?

Here is a story I wrote about the sea container.

Conceptualize a whopping thundering tractor motor into your yard and pitch a rusty 53 foot insulated receptacle on your grounds and then compel you to dish out $... Well, that's what happened on June 16th. The senescent guys bought it for storing carrots.
Jesse had been poking around at ways for storing carrots because the existing facilities were getting to unpretentious for their firm, inasmuch as the shop has a processing chamber. Jesse ran across a 53’ insulated sea container and the levy came across good so they procured it.
They ordered it through a chap in Montreal and then got it rolled in to Saskatoon, nonetheless one phenomenon came into the way, they thought it was a place in Saskatoon and they didn’t know if they would pay for it to come to Rosthern. But it all got cleared up at 12:45 when we got a phone call from the fella who had it at the gas station at Rosthern!
The fella conveyed it to the end of the driveway and stopped, then we came and gave him two options of where to drive. He picked going down the trail and driving across the carrot patch. Once he had done so, he backed up to the place where the guys had chosen to get it pitched, took off the straps, and remotely controlled the tires farther up the trailer and then lifted the trailer so the crate would come off, he then drove off with the check in front of his eyes!
I anticipate this container will work kindly for the guys!