New tradition draws kids
Children in Mozambique gather to watch The Godman
film as part of a new Easter tradition.
Maybe you’ve noticed this problem in your church: disappearing worshipers.
They flood through the church doors on Easter Sunday, then vanish!
OneHope partners in Mozambique noticed the same thing, year after year. They also noticed: many of these disappearing worshipers were children and youth.
“Massive numbers of young people come for Easter’s celebration without any commitment to Christ. They’re almost completely uninformed about the meaning of Easter,” says Fernando Chaúque, national director of OneHope — Mozambique.
Mozambique’s churches saw this as a unique opportunity to engage the next generation with God’s Word, and they began an intensive outreach program to children and youth with The GodMan film, back in 2007.
Now it has become an Easter tradition for believers to unite and share The GodMan film in home, church and neighborhood showings with hundreds of thousands of young people!
Local families and congregations invite children and youth in their area to a special showing of the film that includes the complete presentation of the gospel, and often the distribution of the printed Book of Hope to young people, too.
This Easter, 23 churches across the country took the lead and shared the Word of God with 550 children, and saw 235 commit their lives to Christ!
“It was amazing to see children and their parents coming, as a family, to the venue to see The GodMan film,” says Fernando.
“We humbly thank God for the opportunity to bring His Word to our country.”
Learn more about OneHope and The GodMan film at www.onehope.net.