I then wondered about which translation of the Bible I should use – I wanted everyone to be able to use the version they knew and loved.” I could only find films for children depicting a very white, blue-eyed Jesus, which seemed educationally inaccurate and didn’t help my children relate to Jesus. “I first started to think about filming the Gospels when my church installed a screen and I wanted to be able to show the Bible footage to my Sunday School members: children who were from very diverse ethnic backgrounds. The producer Hannah Leader, who has worked on Gosford Park and Edge of Love, is a Sunday School as well as a feature-film professional. As part of the Vision 2033 goals, Faith Comes By Hearing has committed to creating at least one Gospel Film in every recorded language, so that people everywhere will have the opportunity to hear and see the Gospel. Since using video together with audio is a natural progression, Gospel Films will be able to provide video-centric urban areas and younger generations a way to engage the Bible like never before. Faith Comes By Hearing hopes to implement Gospel Films in communities worldwide, starting watching groups around the Gospel Film in that community’s language. Her response: “This is God’s moment!” While this has not been a simple process – each Gospel Film must be manually produced by a team of editors to flow correctly with the respective language recording – it is well worth the effort!īy combining LUMO’s compelling cinematic portrayal of the life of Jesus with FCBH’s word-for-word audio Scriptures in the languages of the world, Gospel Films are revolutionizing the way we experience the Bible. After a few languages had been finished, a “test run” was conducted in Cuba, and they sent Hannah a report of the impact Gospel Films were having there. In August of that same year, LUMO graciously gave Faith Comes By Hearing the right to use their films, so that they could carefully overlay them with the existing Audio Bible recordings. It wasn’t long before the massive benefit of a partnership became clear-Faith Comes By Hearing and LUMO were parallel ministries working on two sides of the same tapestry! God, the Master Weaver, had put us together in His perfect timing. In April of 2017, Faith Comes By Hearing was introduced to Tessie DeVore, president of LUMO-a ministry that has produced beautiful, historically accurate films of the Gospels. He wrote it down and stored a copy of it on his computer. Over 30 years ago, Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) president Jerry Jackson received a word from God that the ministry would someday become involved with video production. Your browser does not support the video element. With specially constructed sets and the extraordinarily authentic villages and countryside of rural Morocco, it immerses the viewer in the world of first century Palestine, and also breaking the stereotypical tradition of a westernised Jesus and his life story and presents it as it really was 2000 years ago. Narrated by leading British actor David Harewood (‘Homeland’, ‘Blood Diamond’, ‘Merchant of Venice’) it is based on the latest theological, historical and archaeological research. Five years in the making, this epic production has been critically acclaimed by leading religious scholars as a unique and highly authentic telling of the Jesus story. This full-length feature film about the life of Jesus takes the actual four individual Gospel text as its script, word for word, unedited. It presents four films – one for each Gospel account – where we could experience the story of Jesus and the world of First Century Palestine in which he lived. The Lumo Project is a multi-language biblical film resource engaging us with the life of Jesus through the four New Testament Gospels.
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