I get plenty of mail from young folks asking for book report information. So, here goes…
I was born in Seattle, Washington September 9, 1953. My family moved to the Cascade Mountains when I was ten. The nearest town was Arlington with one stop light and a population 2,023. I spent a lot of my time wandering the forests and basically enjoyed being a country kid. I didn't like reading much, but I did like sports, music and acted in a lot of school plays. Most of my life I planned to grow up and be a dentist. And then something very interesting happened…
I was raised in a Christian family but started to get real bored with Christianity. A friend told me that's because I was only half a Christian. He said I knew all about Jesus as my Savior who died for my sins on the cross, but that didn't know anything about Him being my Lord or Boss. He said, "I bet you that if you promise always to say yes to God, regardless of how weird it may be, I bet you your life will be anything but boring."
So I took him up on it. When a girl I'd dated all through high school dumped me our first year at the University of Washington, I wandered the campus night after night until I finally told God He could be the Boss of everything in my life, that I'd do whatever He wanted regardless of how weird it was. A few weeks later I saw the third or fourth movie of my life and was so amazed at its power that I told God He had to raise people up in the film business to start doing movies for Him. I kept getting the impression that I was supposed to be one of those people.