Jim Von Schounmacher Ph D

Submission to Master Jim Von Schounmacher Ph D

In my youth my Grandfather told me, "Never ask a man where he is from. If he's from Texas he'll tell you, and if he's not, why embarrass him?" Having said, that I was born in a county up in Northeast Texas- Pennsylvania, July 13, 1944. In my life I have been blessed with more talent than I knew what to do with. Because I have been able to master any task I undertook with ease, I never truly did anything 100%. I always took the easy way, never really applying myself fully to anything. But that was all part of HIS plan-it led me from educating myself beyond my own intelligence, making six figure incomes, to being humbled and broken by GOD, and shown that I knew nothing and was nothing without HIM. My resume includes accomplished equestrian, horse trainer, teacher, preacher, singer, songwriter, author, athlete, skydiver, scuba diver, Vietnam Era Vet, marketing director, public relations director, aquatics director, and on and on. My life was full of fluff, and no substance. It was not until Easter sunrise of 1993 that I discovered the calling that GOD had on my life. Nothing has been the same since. Together, my wife Catherine and I established MorningStar Ranch Ministries in the San Antonio, Texas area, and have been blessed to watch GOD's majestic creatures minister and change lives. We have grown from just our own personal horses to a pasture full of everything from Arabians, Quarter Horses, llamas, alpacas, Nigerian Dwarf goats, and even a few donkeys sprinkled in. All of them can be seen at www. MorningStarRanch.orgGOD is now, and always has been, in the testimony business. HE has taken me down a road that has brought me to a Biblical understanding of who we as men were designed to be. HE has, through these horses, taught me HIS principles of submission to master. HE has given me a ministry that allows me to use these precious horses to demonstrate those principles in a way that is both humbling and exhilarating. What I have been taught, I now endeavor to impart to you-and I pray I can.