Jim VonSchounmacher

Jim VonSchounmacher

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In my youth my Grandfather told me, “Never ask a man where he is from… if he’s from Texas he’ll tell you and if he’s not… why embarrass him?”  Having said that… I was born in a county up in Northeast Texas… Pennsylvania, July 13, 1944.

In my life, I have been blest with more talent than I knew what to do with… because I have been able to master any task I undertook with ease, I never truly did anything 100%.  I always took the easy way… never really applying myself to anything.  But that was all part of HIS plan… it lead me from educating myself beyond my own intelligence, making six figure incomes, to being humbled and broken by GOD and shown I knew nothing… and was nothing without HIM.

My resume includes, accomplished equestrian, teacher, preacher, singer, song writer, author, athlete, skydiver, scuba diver, Vietnam Era Vet, marketing director, public relations director, aquatics director… and on and on.  My life was full of fluff… and no substance.  It was not until Easter sunrise of 1994 that I discovered the calling GOD had on my life.

Together, my wife Catherine and I have established MorningStar Ranch Ministries in the San Antonio, Texas area… and have been blest to watch GOD’s majestic creatures minister and change lives.  We have grown from just our own personal horses to a pasture full of everything from Arabians, Percherons, Quarter Horses, American Saddlebreds, Hackney Ponies, Welsh Ponies, Caspians and even a few donkeys sprinkled in.  All can be seen @ www.morningstarranch.org

GOD is now, and always has been, in the testimony business.  HE has taken me down a road that has brought me to a Biblical understanding of who we as men were designed to be… HE has, through these horses, taught me HIS principles of submission to master.  HE has given me a ministry that allows me to use these precious horses to demonstrate HIS principles in a way that is both humbling and exhilarating.

What I have been taught I now endeavor to impart to you… I pray I can.

The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)

The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)

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<p>New from the author of the multiple award-winning fantasy saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em>, winner of the <strong>Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2014 - Best Book in the Category of FANTASY</strong>....</p><h1><strong><em>The Children of Darkness</em> by David Litwack</strong></h1><p>Evolved Publishing presents the first book in the new dystopian series <em>The Seekers</em>. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>[Dystopian, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Religion]</strong></h2><p><em>“But what are we without dreams?”</em></p><p>A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant. But the vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” and by eliminating forever the rush of progress that nearly caused the destruction of everything.</p><p>Childhood friends, Orah and Nathaniel, have always lived in the tiny village of Little Pond, longing for more from life but unwilling to challenge the rigid status quo. When their friend Thomas returns from the Temple after his “teaching”—the secret coming-of-age ritual that binds young men and women eternally to the Light—they barely recognize the broken and brooding young man the boy has become. Then when Orah is summoned as well, Nathaniel follows in a foolhardy attempt to save her.</p><p>In the prisons of Temple City, they discover a terrible secret that launches the three on a journey to find the forbidden keep, placing their lives in jeopardy, for a truth from the past awaits that threatens the foundation of the Temple. If they reveal that truth, they might once again release the potential of their people.</p><p>Yet they would also incur the Temple’s wrath as it is written: “If there comes among you a prophet saying, ‘Let us return to the darkness,’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the Light.”</p><p><strong>Be sure to read the second book in this series, <em>The Stuff of Stars</em>, due to release November 30, 2015. And don't miss David's award-winning speculative saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></strong></p>

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