Last May, we began documenting our family’s journey online as we stepped out in faith to make So You Want to Marry My Daughter.
The photo above was taken recently during a family road trip to Kirkland, Washington for Adalie’s graduation from Northwest University with a Bachelor Degree in Ministry Leadership. Four daughters, a new son-in-law, and a lot of miles together on the road. As I looked around the table at that little A&W stop in Washington, I was reminded again why this movie matters so much to our family.
This past year has been full of milestones: Benny asking permission to marry Adalie, Kylia returning from her Caribbean mission trip, Leilani’s baptism, new relationships beginning, and Adalie and Benny’s wedding in December.
At the same time, we’ve been building Highwater.
We partnered with Aaron Fullan online and Rochelle Gordon through church outreach to help us find the “Highwater 100.” But after much prayer and conversations with a Christian marketing company, we realized something important:
Community can’t simply be bought through ads and email campaigns.
So we’re pivoting.
Instead of focusing primarily online, we believe God is leading us to build locally — here in Wilsonville, Oregon.
The dream is to host weekly Christian film fellowship nights where experienced and non-experienced actors, crew members, and families can gather together to help make So You Want to Marry My Daughter. Open casting calls. Auditions. Fellowship. Prayer. Community.
The goal is still the same:
100 monthly Backers and Builders helping greenlight this movie.
But now we’re looking for our Highwater tribe face-to-face.
And to our online Highwater family: we still need you.
Your monthly giving, investing, prayers, encouragement, texts, phone calls, and support have funded the screenplay, First Look production, business plan, marketing campaigns, and helped sustain our family’s calling as “movie missionaries.”
As we begin building locally, please don’t stop supporting Highwater online.
You are still a huge part of this story.
Please keep praying for us as we search for a local venue in Wilsonville and for more margin to invest deeply into both family and Highwater.
This journey has been harder than I expected — but I’m more determined than ever to keep pressing forward until the work is done.
Onward.
— Seth