One of the challenges that we have communicating about missions, ministry and the work going on in the field is bringing the message home. It’s one thing to watch or read stories from “distant lands”, but it’s quite another to see the stories lived out in our own back-yard.
War School is a short film about Child Soldiers. It takes the traumatic plight of children forced to be child soldiers and brings it back into an an environment that we in the developed world know, elementary or middle school.
Warning, this video contains disturbing content and strong language. If you are watching in public I would recommend using headphones…
Seeing a story that is happening every day around the world, but in an environment that is not foreign to us, and one that we can relate to, allows us to understand the story in a much different and more powerful way. The challenge that we are presented with is how can we portray the ministry that we are doing in missions in a way that impacts the life of people viewing it and develops empathy in the lives of people who can make a difference…
Thanks for sharing this. It’s shocking, but in a way we need to see. I’ll pass this around too.
Good point and powerful video.
Excellent video that highlights how we can address this challenge we have in communicating.
In fact, I’m going to share it with the students in the Communication Foundations course.
I’m glad that you found it helpful. I think that the challenge of communicating the message in a way people can understand and relate to is critical for missions communicators. Hopefully the students feel the same.