🎥 WHY MAKE A MOVIE? The goal is to bring awareness and educate society, especially the churches, while validating the millions of bereaved parents. Would you consider donating $10 to be a part of this life changing venture? Target Audiences-380,000 churches nationwide. I just finished my dissertation project. It was a 90 question questionnaire that bereaved parents participated from six countries, a total of 312 responses. The majority of the participants declared that they received no support at all from their pastoral leadership and their congregations isolated them or avoided them after the funeral. As a consequence 43.3% left the church altogether! I believe this is unacceptable! As a Doctor of Ministry effective December 13, 2024, I have talked to several pastors who confessed to me that they just don’t know what to do to support the bereaved parent. In my dissertation there is a chapter for the pastoral leadership that they can use as a guide and I even wrote a series of sermons for them to give to educate themselves, their congregation and validate the bereaved parent along the way. Last August God opened a new door for me to meet a group of filmmakers, actors, producers, distributors, and I attended a bunch of classes on film making. I had no idea why God had put this on my path at the time. I met a Filmmaker mother in Oklahoma who is making a movie took me under her wing, praying with me and encouraging me. I asked God for guidance, asking him questions like “Why me?” and “How can I do this?”. He reminded me I was not alone on this journey and he has been preparing me all along. My Background: I worked my way up the ranks in the post office with no education, just hard work always achieving the goals set before me. The highlights of my career was being promoted to five different post offices as the postmaster, earning a Benjamin Award along the way which was presented to me on stage by the Postmaster General himself. I have also successfully held down the positions of retail manager for the whole state of Oklahoma running 637 retail post offices, and running the 387 retail post offices in the Dallas Metro Plex achieving a goal of $296 million each year! He reminded me how I achieved those goals with teamwork, including all my employees, and he reminded me that there are millions of bereaved parents, and that’s how I would achieve this goal, with teamwork! Now God has given me the story as well… And my plan is to make a movie to educate churches nationwide promoting a Crossing The Grief Bridge movie night. Of course this is a long-term goal. Independent movies don’t get made overnight. One of the criteria that producers and directors and film studios look for is a following or film base and of course, fundraising. You have to prove there is a need for the movie by building a fan base and fundraise so that you can attract a talented director or a established leading lady! Signing up 100 Ambassadors is just the first step in Phase One. Each Ambassador collects 25 -$10 donations. For their participation, they will have their name and their childs name in the movie credits. The goal is to have a foundation of 2,500 supporters by the end of December. A $10 donation qualifies you as a supporter and gives you access in January to a private Backstage Grief Bridge Movie Facebook Group, where you will recieve bi-weekly updates on the movie progress, including fundraising and fan base numbers with a goal of 30,000 by the end of 2025. You must sign up through the link below so your email will qualify you as a fan with the backstage access. Phase Two will begin in January 2025. With some special incentives in limited numbers to aid the fundraising effort. Once these two are in place-Fan base and fundraising a package has begun to build. I will be seeking an A list director and an A list actress who has lost a child, they will instinctively understand. Please pray God prepares their hearts to be receptive. I hope this project will touch your heart and that you will want to come along and be a part of this culture changing adventure of continuing the bonds with our children. My heart is to help as many bereaved parents as possible ease their journey a little! Would you care consider making a $10 donation towards this important cause? Just clink on the link below to donate and gain access in January to a private backstage group to get updates first about the movie 🎥 Together we can make a difference! God bless each of you, 💜Cali Anderson Bereaved Mother Bereaved Parents Advocate Continuing Bonds Advocate Grief Educator Compassionate Friend Click this link to donate.