TD Jakes and Devon Franklin team for
New Film ‘Miracles From Heaven’
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Sony has picked up Miracles From Heaven, a faith-based project that reunites the makers of the studio’s hit Heaven Is for Real.
The project is an adaptation of Three Miracles From
Heaven: A Sick Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and
the Lives Forever Changed , an upcoming book by
Christy Beam; Randy Brown, who wrote Clint Eastwood’s Trouble With the Curve , is on board to write the script.

Bishop T.D. Jakes and Joe Roth, who produced Heaven Is for Real, are producing along with DeVon Franklin, the
preacher and former Sony exec who is now a producer
based on the studio’s Culver City lot. Franklin was instrumental in bringing in the book in proposal form,
and the acquisition is a vote of confidence in the newly minted producer.

Beam, who lives in Burleson, Texas, where her family belongs to the Alsbury Baptist Church, wrote the
memoir about her daughter, who suffered from a rare
digestive disorder that caused her to eat via feeding
tubes and carry colostomy bags.

The miracles in the title refer to how the youngster fell three stories, visited heaven and later was cured of her seemingly incurable condition.

Bishop Jakes pastors what Christianity Today calls "one of
America’s fastest growing mega-churches." The Potter’s House, a multiracial,
nondenominational church with 50-plus active outreach ministries, has dominated church
growth records since its inception in 1996. In its 10-year existence, the church has
grown from the 50 families that relocated with the Jakes family from West Virginia to
Dallas to more than 30,000 members. Rivaling many corporations, the ministry employs
nearly 400 staff members, including full-time finance, human resources, information
technology, materials distribution, public relations, publications and television production
departments. The Potter’s House is fiscally sound, retiring within four years the financial
debt incurred by the 191,000 square feet, $45 million sanctuary construction.

Bishop Jakes is the CEO of The Potter’s House, a nonprofit organization that has
produced four major national conferences – The Pastors’ and Leadership Conference,
ManPower, Woman, Thou Art Loosed (WTAL), and MegaFest. A powerful and popular
symposium, WTAL addresses the specific spiritual needs of women, speaks to their
strengths, rather than their weaknesses, and empowers many to go from welfare to work, and from prison inmate to productive great citizens