TULSA, OK - Sing Over Me is a new, one-and-a-half-hour
documentary about award-winning singer and songwriter Dennis Jernigan
and his painful journey and battle with same-sex attraction while
living as a professing Christian. "It was a life," he says, "that was
filled with shame." Yet, this is not a story against homosexuality.
Rather, it is a story of hope, destiny and restoration.
To
release Fall 2014, by Free Verse Films (Los Angeles, CA), the film will
premiere at a special live event on Friday, Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m., at
Eastwood Baptist Church; 949 S. 91 E. Ave.; Tulsa, OK. Jernigan will be
at the event, which will include an opening time of worship, a special
screening of the documentary, and will be followed by a
question-and-answer session.
As a kid,
Jernigan recognized he was "different." When he heard men from his
church discussing homosexuals, he recognized--whether the men knew it or
not--they were talking about him. Their words were not kind.
"As
a child, I thought God hated me. I thought homosexuals were going
straight to hell. I was hopeless," he shares. Jernigan battled that
sense of hopelessness throughout high school and college, feeling
condemned from the messages he heard from the pulpit; yet he was unable
to change.
But obviously something did change.
It is the core of his message today. "I've often heard people say,
'You do more damage than good by telling someone they don't have to be
homosexual.' I'm not telling them they have to do anything. I'm just
telling them God loves them and here's how He loved me. This is my
story." This event is open to the public.
ABOUT
DENNIS JERNIGAN - He has penned hundreds of worship songs, including
well-known choruses such as "You Are My All in All," "We Will Worship
the Lamb of Glory" and "Nobody Fills My Heart Like Jesus" and has
collaborated with artists such as Twila Paris, Natalie Grant and Rebecca
St. James. He walked away from the homosexual lifestyle more than
thirty years ago, married and has nine children. "I have never referred
to myself as a recovering homosexual," Jernigan says of his past.
"Never have, never will. I am signed, sealed, delivered, utterly and
irrevocably who my Father says I am ... a new creation."
Tickets for the upcoming premiere are $10 online or $12 at the door and are available at
For
additional information on the documentary, or if you are interested in
hosting a screening at your school or church, email: singovermemovie@gmail.com
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ABOUT
FREE VERSE FILMS - Founder Jacob Kindberg (Director/Editor) has been
making movies since he was eight years old. He studied film production,
with a minor in biblical studies, at Biola University in La Mirada, CA,
and graduated in 2008. In 2010, he directed his first feature, Channel
News. The micro-budget film played at several festivals around the
country and won Best Minnesota Feature at the 2010 Underground Exposure
Film Festival. He is also an accomplished film editor and member of the
Motion Picture Editors Guild. He lives in Los Angeles.