Name: What is Advent about? by Rethink Church
Duration: 6 min 18 s
Description: Advent represents quite a bit more than a countdown to December 25.

Advent represents quite a bit more than a countdown to December 25.

What is Advent about?

Learn more at http://EbolaVideo.org

This video contributes to the prevention of the further spread of the Ebola virus in Africa. The video reflects the co-creators approach of creating non-coercive media for social change, in this case using animation to create a message of love to the living through an African spiritual voice.

The video may be freely downloaded, distributed and used under the terms of a Creative Commons Non Commercial-No Derivatives-With Attribution international license.

Co-Creator, Director and Story Editor: Firdaus Kharas
Co-Creator and Writer: Brent Quinn
Original Music and Sound Design: Andrew Huggett 
Executive Producers: Neelley Hicks / Kunal D. Patel / Firdaus Kharas / R. K. Chand
Artha Animation Creative Head: Gaurav Malhotra / Head of Operations: Akhil Verma
Designing Lead: Prashant Shikare / Animation Lead: Yogesh Kawale
Animation Team: Mahendra Kawale / Rahul Jain / Rohan Bhalerao / Suraj Kumar / Kishor Dabolker / Tushar Moleshwari
This video was produced by United Methodists Communications (http://umcom.org), Iheed (http://iheed.org) and Chocolate Moose Media (http://chocmoose.com).

Ebola: A Poem for the Living (English)

We think the church should unconditionally love everyone. Everywhere.

We believe God is big enough to handle all our questions, and we think the church is a place to explore them together.

We think the church should allow anyone to enter and join the community it offers. 

You’re the kind of person who cares about your fellow human being and what’s happening in the world. You believe in doing good. Helping others. You yearn for a way to be a part of making the world a better place. We feel the same way.

That’s why we’ve worked together to support and advance important issues for over two hundred years — everything from standing up for human rights to helping the homeless and hungry, to providing healthcare in the developing world. We believe that individual acts of kindness done in hometown communities can collectively accomplish great things on a global scale.

For us, this is what church is all about. It’s more than a place to go on a Sunday morning. It’s a place where you can put your beliefs into action. A place to make connections. A place to get involved in opportunities to give back. A place to make a difference. That’s Church.

- The people of The United Methodist Church

What is Advent about?

Rethink Church

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