Jim VonSchounmacher

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 blest 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 to anything.  But that was all part of HIS plan… it lead me from educating myself beyond my own intelligence, making six figure incomes, to being humbled and broken by GOD and shown I knew nothing… and was nothing without HIM.

My resume includes, accomplished equestrian, teacher, preacher, singer, song writer, 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 1994 that I discovered the calling GOD had on my life.

Together, my wife Catherine and I have established MorningStar Ranch Ministries in the San Antonio, Texas area… and have been blest 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, Percherons, Quarter Horses, American Saddlebreds, Hackney Ponies, Welsh Ponies, Caspians and even a few donkeys sprinkled in.  All can be seen @ www.morningstarranch.org

GOD 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 HIS principles in a way that is both humbling and exhilarating.

What I have been taught I now endeavor to impart to you… I pray I can.