“By broadcasting free programs that bring God’s love to every child, including those in places hostile to Christianity, we can give them real hope for the future — even in the midst of war.”
COMMENTARY
Like the children living in the Holy Land right now, my life as a young girl was full of fear and uncertainty because of war.
Growing up in Syria, death and destruction surrounded me every day. The war in my homeland has claimed 350,000 lives, and still it isn’t over.
As Christians, it’s very hard to keep our faith strong when everything around us is falling apart.
But in the midst of war, there was a source of hope that brought comfort to me and my siblings . . . sound coming from the small television set that we huddled around each day in our crowded living room. That sound was a free channel called SAT-7 KIDS that we could pick up on our satellite dish.
The Arabic-speaking Christian presenters on those kids’ programs whisked us away from our hopeless surroundings and gave us a little glimpse of heaven. Joy and peace shone out of them. The stories they shared from the Bible gave me hope
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