Now, more than ever, we are living in a society in which overt sin is becoming ever more pervasive and "normal"; the darkness can at times seem overwhelming and our children are out there in it.
The need for excellent books for young people with a Christian worldview is great. There are plenty of novels with an atheistic viewpoint and many stories which have incited interest in the occult and witchcraft, violence, materialism and worldly relationships, but what about books where the Lord is God, where faith in the Lord Jesus Christ matters, where people pray and read the Bible?
These don't have to be dry subjects! – they can be as alive, real, funny, scary and sad as any secular
story, but with the enormous extra bonus of a spiritual perspective.
Our vision is to produce excellent, fun, exciting novels for young people from a biblical standpoint,
to encourage and inspire them in their walk with God, and to show non-church kids what they are missing!
What's so amazing about fiction? Well... Jesus told stories!
Not fibs of course – not that kind of stories! Jesus' stories illustrated a spiritual truth. All were rooted in the culture of the day; farmers and seeds, bread and yeast, a Samaritan who was kind to a stranger.
People understood what Jesus was talking about because his stories made things 'come to life'.
Every now and then we hear more depressing statistics about young people leaving the church, and it's a fact that most people come to know the Lord when they are young.
We can't afford to be complacent.
Words are powerful, but we only have a small window of opportunity before our children grow up... freedom of speech is being eroded in our land too.
Who knows how long we will still be able to freely distribute books for young people that state that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ? Or to share our beliefs with children from a different faith background? A book makes an acceptable, non-threatening gift to any child... which means that all of us can be youth workers with very little cost to ourselves!
Our children's faith is priceless. The lives of every child in our communities are infinitely precious to God, too. One day “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord.”
