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"LAZARUS IN NEW YORK"
On Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, my script won Gold as the Best Screenplay at the ICVM Crown Awards during NRB in Dallas.
The Edmonton area revival breakout started in 1972 when a carload of college students from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan visited Meadowlark Baptist Church
to testify to the amazing awakening taking place in their city. Their witness exploded a stunning revival in West Edmonton.
In the beginning of '73 I linked up with Gord Beatty, Lori Nix, and Sheila Mackay as a folk band performing Jesus Music across the province. Over the next few years,
several other young Christian musicians joined the band, which we named EMMANUEL. Alas, I left the group in late '75...
This LP was recorded to prepare for Emmanuel's nationwide Canadian tour, sponsored by YWAM to recruit youths to evanglize at the '76 Olympics.
This silhouette poster from early years shows (from l-to-r):
Ron Krueger, Sheila Mackay, Gord Beatty, Lori Nix, and Wayne Zeitner.
My fiancée and I took a break from Emmanuel, and attended a 12-week Discipleship Training Institute at Agape Force HQ in Sebastapol, California.
Afterwards, Sheila returned to Edmonton, but I went out to Agape Force's newly-purchased 300-acre "ranch" in Lindale, TX. Neither of us went to college...
...but we both were in full-time ministry. In early '77 after the Olympics, Sheila came down to Texas and joined AF.
AF Founder Tony Salerno came up with the story concept, based on Galatians 5 (Fruit Of The Spirit). I co-wrote the script with Ane Warner-Weber; wrote the song "Peace;" voiced the role of Mister Conductor; and recorded 3-person dialog with little Stevie & Nancy one evening in the AF Accounting office on a 4-track TEAC open-reel device. Mark D. Pendergrass illustrated the cover art.
Twenty-six concerts in 22 days, starting in Brisbane. We zipped up to Bundaberg, then worked our way down the Gold Coast to Sydney, headed over to Melbourne, and ended up in Adelaide, where this photo was taken at a civic Concert Hall. (l-to-r: Julie Miller, Sheila Mackay Zeitner, Wayne Zeitner as Mr Conductor, Nathan Carlson as Herbert The Snail.)
This was the 2nd or 3rd summer that AF came up to Edmonton. I think there was a total of six or seven Klondike Days Outreaches up there. This one was most memorable to me, because our wedding took place during that crusade.
A coupla dozen AF-ers attended our Edmonton wedding on July 30th. Tony Salerno officiated with Rev. Willy Muller. Mark Pendergrass, Sherry Saunders, Georgian Banov, Ane Weber, Frank Hernandez sang some songs for us.
The only time Sheila and I wrote a song together was for this album.
"Hip And A Hey" (we're on our way, we work and play together)
Nathaniel's siblings—bad kids. On top is "Tails" (Mark D. Pendergrass), below him is "Belcher" (Lonnie Davis), left-side is "Rounder" (wz), right side is "Scrunge" (Cathy Woods-Lieb), and at bottom is "Nappin" (Kim Strickland).
I co-wrote with Ane and co-produced with Tony the first "GF" record released in 1982. For the video/film, Betamax "home video" was just starting back then, so the videos were shot on 1" open-reel analog videotape, then transferred to 16mm filmstrips for renting out at Christian retail shops. Beta & VHS in 1985.
I was screenwriter, co-producer and 2nd Unit Director of the first Gingerbrook Fare video, entitled "Obedience." This photo shows me working on behind-the-scenes footage with Bob Gardner. He was an amazing asst. producer. (Fletch Wiley composed & recorded the score.)
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