JANUARY 24: THE OVERNIGHTERS
Director: Jesse Moss Documentary
With: Pastor Jay Reinke, Andrea Reinke
Year: 2013 100 mins. USA NR
Filmmaker Jesse Moss spent 18 months in North Dakota as a
one-man-documentary-crew intimately capturing extraordinary portraits of
broken men and examining the tension between the moral imperative to
"love thy neighbor," and the response of one small town
congregation and community when confronted by an influx of desperate
strangers. In the midst of the struggling economic climate of the United
States, the oil business in small town Williston, North Dakota is
booming. Thousands of desperate men and women are
flocking to the region in search of work with little more than the
clothes on their backs or the cars they arrived in. The great demand for
housing has overwhelmed the community with many of those who have found
employment without a place to live. Pastor Jay
Reinke of Concordia Lutheran Church is under fire from the City Council,
his community and the local newspapers for his heartfelt desire to open
the church's doors to allow the "overnighters" - as he calls them - to
stay for a night, a week or sometimes even
longer, sleeping on the floor, in the pews and in their cars in the
Church parking lot. When the town learns that Reinke is housing men with
criminal records, and a mounting controversy peaks within the pastor's
personal life, even his diehard quest for humanity
can't stop things from spiraling vastly out of control.
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