Thank you to these Angels in Victoria, MN who are making this possible by offering their locations or consulting as gifts to us and being part of the miracle…

Nan Emmer, real estate agent for location at 8275 Kelzer Pond Dr., Victoria, MN; a beautiful home for sale. www.24-7homes.net

Susan Blixrud, relocation specialist for location at 8235 Kelzer Pond Dr., Victoria, MN; another lovely home for sale. 612-716-4551, www.susanblixrud.com

Hartman Office Building, 1600 Arboretum Blvd, Victoria, MN

Fresh Seasons Market, Victoria, MN

Marathon Gas and Hi-5 Market, Victoria, MN

School of the Wise, Wine and Coffee Bar and Restaurant, Victoria, MN

Roulette’s Pizza, Victoria, MN

Victoria House Restaurant, Victoria, MN

Lakeshore Chiropractic, Dr. Susan Lecy, Victoria, MN

Moravian Church, Rev. Brian Dixon, for ‘God’s Acre” – Victoria, MN

Holly Kreft, Town Hall, City of Victoria, MN

Ann Mahnke, Victoria, MN, Parks and Recreation Dept.

Don Schuster, Apartment building owner at 8045 Quamoclit St., Victoria, MN

Sheriff Pete Ekenberg and Deputy Greg Gowan of Carver County Sheriffs Department

Victoria Classic Car Night, Jerry Hartman (donated car to use), Randy Miller, Dave Beneke, and Steve Schmeig

Friends and neighbors of Victoria, MN

Also from Dr. Susan Lecy, Lakeshore Chiropractic:

I had just gotten divorced and it was pretty bad. I was living in an area where I didn’t have any family or friends, but did have a lucrative practice and was comfortable in my own skin. However, I was very sad much of the time. One particularly stressful day, a woman came in, sat down in my waiting area and started telling me her story. It was dreadful. Among other things, she’d escaped an abusive husband, had no money, and was living in a women’s shelter. Her story was so horrific that by the time she left, I felt my situation was like a big joke! After all, I had good health and a good practice, and my finances were fine.

I must have treated her because I had notes and a record of that day. I tried to find her later on because she had helped me so much, but I couldn’t find her anywhere, and I looked everywhere. It was like she didn’t exist! I kept her paperwork and drew a picture of an angel on it, because I knew for sure she was an angel, just for me that day.

From Dr. Susan Lecy of Victoria, MN:

I was very young, driving in rush hour traffic in the dark. I was really scared and (didn’t trust myself to drive in these conditions), so I pulled over the the side of the road. A man with an earring came up to my car and I wasn’t scared of him! He was warm and friendly. I knew he was an angel.

It continues to amaze me how God can pull through at the eleventh hour! I lost two houses I thought would be perfect to shoot two to three scenes, and I was devastated, as it had been really hard to find those two. Then I found another house and was told a few days later I could only use the outside. What was I going to do this close to our beginning production date? I needed that house the first week of production! Well, I called some real estate agents here in Victoria, MN where we are filming, and some were enthusiastic, but did nothing, not even calling back when they said they would. I’m sure they were very busy and overwhelmed. I understand that kind of thing! Found one agent who was retired, but referred me to “the best”….he said she always got the job done. Well, Nan Emmer is my real estate angel here. She not only got it done, but with a home that’s been in other TV shows and is gorgeous! I’m so grateful to her, she not only did that, but was very supportive of my project and told me about other spiritual women I’d not met here before. The miracles just keep coming! Thank you, God.

A friend we’ll call Sam was really feeling down, mad and just generally miserable one day at work. For some reason he decided to take a different route for his daily walk during break-time and ended up near a small park. Just in front of him, a car parked and a man took out a small dog carrier, then let out a puppy to play in the park. This dog was really cute and came up to Sam, licking him and jumping up on his knees despite the black cloud Sam carried with him that day. Sam’s heart opened immediately. Even more miraculous, the owner of the dog said, “He’s usually not that friendly!” Sam told me, “I felt like it was God patting me on the shoulder, saying, ‘You can have a friend for a little while and it’s not that bad.’ I was able to handle the rest of the day much better.” I know Sam was grateful for that lovely bit of divine intervention and I was inspired by this story as well, making me remember the times I’ve desperately needed just a little love and a puppy was right there to give it to me.

More amazement….So I was talking about Mary, who manages one of the restaurants we’ll film at here in town, and the other miracle is that when I told her about the show, after she’d agreed to the location part, she was amazed. Here’s why: She had just that very day been discussing angels with someone else in the company!

I couldn’t believe it! Every single business in the town where I live said, “Yes” to allowing me to use their building or parking lot for locations needed to film the Soul Survivors TV pilot.After all, I’ve only lived here a very short time and no one really knows me. I was dumbfounded with gratitude. This town is amazing, like a Norman Rockwell town, according to Mary, who manages the restaurant where we’ll film a very special romantic scene.

While I trusted God and moved forward to create the”appetizer” – trailer you see on our home page, my dear brother, Richard, kept calling me and saying things like: “I get the feeling you’re going to need more money, so I’m sending some today.” I actually had about $3,000 at the beginning and thought that would be plenty, but even on a slim budget, costs kept coming in. But I never had to stress about it, since Richard was listening to God himself and sending me the money before I even knew I needed it! Thank you, dear Brother, for your great love for me and for God. By the way, it ended up costing $12,000 for that 4 minute piece, so I really hope you enjoy it!

I was asking God for guidance on how to find an honest, ethical mailing list company that would have my target market and had a clearly opt-in list. That very same day as I did research for ads to place after the pilot was done, I got an inner feeling to call Reader’s Digest about on-line advertising. And my ad rep, Nora, bless her heart, started telling me about a great alternative, their opt-in mailing list! I was so excited, because if there is any company I would trust to have a clean, honest-to-goodness opt-in mail list, and with my perfect target market to boot, it would be RD. Thank you, God….another daily miracle, and I hope to never take them for granted.