Show N Tell Ministries

02/06/2026

🎬 “Pick Up Your Bed and Walk” is almost here.

After more than a year of filming and storytelling, Pick Up Your Bed and Walk: Lessons from Cyclone Country is nearing completion—and we’re excited to invite the community to its premiere on February 21 at The Surge on the Farmington Heights campus.

Two Showings | One Special Day

🕒 3:00 PM – Free Community Showing
Doors open at 2:00 PM
• Free and open to the public
• Football teams from across the region have been invited

🎟 7:00 PM – Official Premiere Event
• Begins with a concert by the Moonlight Swing Band at 6:00 PM
• Former players and sports figures will be in attendance
• Tickets: $10
• Available at itickets.com

This powerful documentary explores how the Wilson Fike football teams of 1967–1969—and the lessons they learned—shaped lives far beyond the scoreboard.

Filmed by veteran documentarian Brad Simmons, narrated by Jeff Gravely, produced by former N.C. Sports Hall of Fame executive director Don Fish, and written and directed by Tim Stevens, this is a film you won’t want to miss.

📘 And don’t forget the companion book—featuring 25 original stories and dozens of photographs that expand the film’s message and preserve this remarkable legacy.

👉 Learn more:
https://wilsonfikedocumentary.com/

(See flyer below for details.)

🎬 PREMIERE MOVIE EVENT
Pick Up Your Bed and Walk
Lessons from Cyclone Country
What if the lessons you learn on the field shape the rest of your life?
You’re invited to the premiere of Pick Up Your Bed and Walk, a powerful documentary about the Wilson Fike football teams that won three consecutive state championships (1967–1969)—and how those seasons shaped who the players became long after the final whistle.
This isn’t just a football movie.
It’s a story about life.
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Why You Should Come
Former players—now decades removed from Friday nights—share how high school football taught them lessons they still rely on today:
• Perseverance when life gets hard
• Discipline and dedication
• Sacrifice for something bigger than yourself
• Loyalty to teammates—on and off the field
These aren’t just sports lessons.
They’re life lessons.
If you care about leadership, teamwork, character, and purpose—this film is for you.
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Event Details
📅 Saturday, February 21
⏰ 7:00 PM
📍 The Surge _ Farmington Heights Church Campus
🎟 $10 Admission (Dick’s Hot Dogs, E&B Sports, Wilson Daily Times, itickets.com)

12/09/2025

Join us this Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Garner Veterans Memorial as we continue our cherished tradition of honoring those who served—and those who never made it home.
We will lay wreaths for each branch of the U.S. military and place Gold Stars on our remembrance tree to honor the families who have lost loved ones in service to our nation.
Garner has lost 67 sons in combat, and 17 more service members who died while stationed in or connected to our community. We remember them all.
The Garner Veterans Memorial proudly participates in the Wreaths Across America program. This Saturday, more than two million wreaths will be placed across the nation—including more than 200,000 at Arlington National Cemetery—as communities like ours pause to remember, honor, and teach.

11/19/2025

“PTSD: The Invisible Enemy,” our documentary on PTSD and the military, has been honored in the 5th Annual Anthem Awards!
The film received awards in both the Health – Public Service Awareness and Health – Public Service Community Engagement categories in this international competition.
This year, the Anthem Awards received more than 2,000 submissions from 42 countries. The awards exist to amplify voices that spark global change and to set a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires communities to act. We’re grateful to be part of that mission.
Narrated by film and television star Joe Mantegna, “PTSD: The Invisible Enemy” has also earned international recognition at the Telly Awards and the Crown Awards. Director and editor Chuck Fishbein currently is revising and expanding the film —and we can’t wait to share the next version soon.

10/27/2025

We have a new teaser for "Pick Up Your Mat and Walk," a documentary about the 1967, '68 and'69 state 4A championship teams. Carlester Crumpler is the best known player from the team, but the theme of the documentary is how the lessons on the field are still being applied today. You can learn more about the film at wilsonfikedocumentary.com.

05/21/2025

"PTSD: The Invisible Enemy" won five Tellys in the record breaking 46th Annual Telly Awards. The Telly Awards honors excellence in
video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, and production companies.
PTSD won Gold Awards in Editing (Chuck Fishbein), Narration (Joe Mantegna) and Documentary costing less than $100,000.
The documentary won Silver Awards in Writing (Tim Stevens) and documentary.
The production by Show N Tell Ministries and Crazy Duck Productions will be televised on Saturday, May 24 by Fox 50 at noon and by WRAL-TV at 2 p.m., and 7 p.m.
There were more than 13,000 entries from across the globe.
This year’s winners include Pixar Animation Studios, Hearst Media, ESPN, LinkedIn, NATO, MTV Entertainment Studios, NASA, the LA
Clippers (NBA), Sawhorse Productions, Telemundo and more.

04/11/2025

Joe Mantegna is incredible as the narrator in PTSD: The Invisible Enemy. From the first word, you know this is a man who has a genuine concern for veterans.

l'm honored to lend my voice to PTSD: The Invisible Enemy, a powerful new documentary shining a light on the silent battle so many of our veterans face. More than 30,000 GWOT veterans have died by su***de, a staggering reality that demands our attention.
This film isn't just about the statistics, it's about help and hope. No veteran should feel alone in their struggle. Link for more info. https://linktr.ee/joemantegna

🎥 Premiere: Friday, May 2|7 PM
📍Garner Performing Arts Center, Garner, NC
🎟️ FREE Admission

I hope you'll join us in supporting those who've sacrificed so much.

04/11/2025

"PTSD: The Invisible Enemy" will be shown for the first time on Friday, May 2, at the Garner Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. There is no admission charge, but donation are needed.

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10/11/2024

Hard at work on a hurricane benefit concert and two documentaries, but very pleased that "Food, with Dignity" has been accepted at the Fuquay-Varina Film Festival.

09/20/2024

Today is POW/MIA Rembrance Day. 1,549 U.S. men still are unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Among them there are 37 men from North Carolina, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
One of them is Joseph N. Hargrove of Mount Olive.
He was among the last casualties of the war, fighting in the last official U.S. Military action..

Two weeks after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Cambodia seized an American merchant ship, the S.S. MAYAGUEZ.

U.S. intelligence said the crew was taken to the island of Koh Tang.

Lance Corporal HARGROVE was part of a rescue mission. He was on the perimeter with orders to remain in place until called back. The rescue force may have left Hargrove and two other Marines during the fire fight.
The Mayaguez sailors already had been released.

Hargrove's last love letter to Gail, his wife, which she received a few days after he disappeared, was postmarked on 15 May 1975.

It included the following poem, according to CBS News..

I'd walk 1,000 miles. I'd swim across the ocean. I'd work all day and all night, too. These are just a few of the things I'd do just for you. I'll make you as happy as anybody could be. I'll make you a queen because a queen you are to me. I'll do anything you ask. I would steal. I would lie. I'd be blue. I'd do anything you ask, darling. I would even die ... just for you. Your loving husband, Joseph.

09/19/2024

I am thinking about Garner's Earnest Allen today because September 20 is national MIA/POW Remembrance Day.
Allen was the son of a sharecropper who worked a farm on Old Stage Road. He and his brothers and sisters attended the Rosenwald School School across from Juniper Level Baptist Church on Sauls Road. That's also where they attended church.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was recalled into service for the Korean War.
Allen was among the first Black medics in an integrated unit and I often have wondered what that would have been like. I read in "Devotion," a book about pilots in Korea, how a black pilot faced severe discrimination in the 1950s.
Allen, and his medical unit, were replacing a U.S. Marine force on the East side of the Chosin Reservoir on November 27,1950 when Allen unexpected saw and spoke to his brother, a U.S. Marine, who was withdrawing and moving to the West side.
Late that night, as the medical unit was moving to the front, it was ambushed by Chinese forces.
The medical unit, primarily doctors, nurses and other medical personnel, essentially was annihilated by Chinese machine guns. Allen was taken prisoner and marched several days in sub-zero weather to a cabin that had no door and nothing to cover the windows.
He was wearing his summer uniform. The temperatures dropped to minus-54. It was so cold that wounded men's blood froze.
The P.O.W. building was on a mountain top. Security was lax, but the prisoners had nowhere to go if they walked away.
Allen died on April 31, 1951. His cause of death was starvation.
He is buried at Juniper Level Baptist Church.

09/11/2024

The Wreath Laying and Gold Star Tree Ceremony at the Garner Veterans Memorial will be a part of the Wreaths across America this December. This year Wreaths across America will help place more than 2 million wreaths at local, national, and military cemeteries, and at memorials and monuments. The Garner Veterans Memorial will be one of more than 4,225 sites to participate in the program. The wreath-laying and gold star tree event at Lake Benson Park is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 14 at 10:30 a.m.

09/03/2024

At least 30,000 veterans of the Global War on Terror have tragically taken their own lives. When you ask a GWOT veteran if they know a fellow service member who has committed su***de, the answer is almost always yes. One sergeant shared that, in just the past two months, he lost four comrades to su***de. He stopped counting when the number exceeded 20, years ago.

This heartbreaking reality underscores the urgency of addressing mental health and support for our veterans. My upcoming documentary will explore this critical issue in depth. We must shine a light on this crisis and work together to find solutions.