The Kendrick Brothers’ are certainly an awesome Blessing from our LORD! GLORY! Sharon and I look forward to watching ‘The Forge.’
LOVE THIS! HEAR IT CHURCH????? TOO MANY CHURCHES NOW ARE IDENTFIED BY THIER POLITICS! HORRIBLE!!!!! Too many have become ‘club houses.’ Stephen Kendrick told Baptist Press: “It’s so refreshing to see how the body of Christ edifies one another when we are gathering in unity and in love,” he said. “And we’ve seen, the white churches, they’ve got a lot to learn from the Black churches, and the Black churches have a lot to learn from the white churches. Scripture communicates there’s actually only one race and it is the human race.”
Baptist Press
By Diana Chandler, posted August 5, 2024 in Tech & Entertainment
ALBANY, Ga. (BP) – Rutha Mae Harris, a founding member of the 1960s civil rights group “The Freedom Singers,” smacks Alex Kendrick upside the head when he apologizes for cheating her on a used car sale in “Flywheel,” one of the Kendrick Brothers’ earliest offerings under Sherwood Pictures.
Decades later, the Kendrick Brothers’ latest release “The Forge” features Harris in a cameo amid an ethnically diverse cast starring Priscilla Shirer and featuring Karen “Miss Clara” Abercrombie and T.C. Stallings of “War Room” fame, as well as African American cast from other beloved films “Courageous” and “Overcomer.”
“When we jumped into our film journey,” Stephen Kendrick told Baptist Press, “our first film, Flywheel, some of our favorite scenes are those with Rutha Harris, who actually marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and was a part of the Freedom Singers when she was a teenager. And she loves the Lord, was such a joy to work with, we gave her a cameo in The Forge, in the coffee shop.”
African American leads and ethnically diverse casts seemingly flow naturally from the Kendrick Brothers’ upbringing, their service at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany and their worship of Jesus, Stephen said.
“Our father launched a Christian school, and it had white, Black, Hispanic – all different races – in leadership in the school, and it was a loving, unified Christian school,” Stephen said. “We saw them modeling the way.”
He describes Sherwood Church as the “most integrated church” in Albany and the region, with Blacks on staff, in leadership, on the praise team and in weekly worship.
“It’s so refreshing to see how the body of Christ edifies one another when we are gathering in unity and in love,” he said. “And we’ve seen, the white churches, they’ve got a lot to learn from the Black churches, and the Black churches have a lot to learn from the white churches. Scripture communicates there’s actually only one race and it is the human race.”
The Forge features Cameron Arnett from Overcomer in a leading role as Joshua, a business owner who goes out of his way to disciple into Christian manhood Isaiah, played by Aspen Kennedy. The newcomer portrays the shiftless teenage son of Cynthia, one of two twin sisters Shirer depicts, adding to her role of Elizabeth from War Room. The Rest of The Story Here
