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Showing Millions of Arab Children the True Meaning of Christmas

Showing Millions of Arab Children the True Meaning of Christmas
SAT-7® KIDS Marks First Year of Broadcasting with Special Christmas Programs

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries


NICOSIA, CYPRUS (ANS) -- SAT-7® KIDS, the first and only Arabic Christian satellite TV channel dedicated exclusively to the children of the Middle East and North Africa, celebrates its first anniversary on December 10, 2008.









Sanbool, Rita, and Lala on the completed SAT-7 KIDS set


According to a SAT-7® news release, the channel was launched as a Christmas gift to the millions of children living in the Arab world during the 2007 holiday season. This year, SAT-7® KIDS will continue to bless viewers with a variety of Christmas specials. Over the next weeks, children in the region can watch Arabic cartoons, (such as VeggieTales® "The Toy Who Stole Christmas" and Hermie & Friends® "Fruit Cake Christmas") films including "Legend of the Candy Cane" and "The Miracle Maker" and many locally produced specials including SAT-7 KIDS' first ever live telecast.

"For more than twelve years, SAT-7 has been a leader in producing and broadcasting Arabic Christian programming for children. But since the launch of SAT-7 KIDS last year, we've seen responses from children, and parents writing on behalf of their kids, more than triple," says Terence Ascott, SAT-7 CEO.

"Our Christmas Special will broadcast live from Lebanon on December 21st, 2008 and it will be the first time that children across the Middle East and North Africa will be able to call and have a live conversation with some of their favorite SAT-7 characters and hosts. We're very excited about this and intend to have many more live broadcasts on SAT-7 KIDS in 2009."

SAT-7 KIDS seeks to educate and inform children living in a region stretching from Morocco to Iraq basics of the Christian faith, including the true meaning of Christmas. Many children living in the region see Christmas as only a Western holiday obsessed with gift-giving and Santa Claus. SAT-7 KIDS seeks to shatter misconceptions about the Christian faith, and to help Arab children understand the Christian teaching that Jesus not only came to earth 2000 years ago, but that he wants to have a relationship with them today.








Rita El Mounayer


Rita El Mounayer, the Lebanese-born Executive Director for Arabic programming, says that she is very encouraged by the channel's responses, "Parents feel safe leaving their children in front of SAT-7 KIDS screen and grown-ups are requesting Bibles to read to their kids. People have written us to say their children are so hooked to the channel and will not allow their family to watch anything else!"


To watch a live Internet stream of SAT-7 KIDS programs, click here: www.sat7.org/tv2/TV2_kids.html

Launched in 1996, SAT-7 is a Christian television service created by and for the People of the Middle East and North Africa with U.S. headquarters in Easton, Md. SAT-7 makes Christ's message of hope available to every home in the Middle East. Each week between 9 and 10 million people tune in (Intermedia research, 2004 - 2006). Broadcast in three languages-Arabic, Farsi and Turkish-SAT-7 can be viewed via satellite in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, much of Central Asia and worldwide at www.SAT7.org.

For more information about SAT-7 go to www.sat7usa.org (English), www.sat7.com (Arabic) and www.sat7PARS.com (Farsi).










Dan Wooding, 67, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma of 45 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS); and US Bureau Chief for the Missionaries News Service (www.missionariesnews.tv) and Safe Worlds IPTV's Christian News Services. He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding He is also the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com.

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