In June of 2020, The All Nations Fellowship Seventh-day Adventist Church and the First Evanston Seventh-day Adventist Church came together to form Digital Animation Evangelism. “DAE was created as a means to bring Seventh-day Adventist youth together and utilize our talents in a creative realm, specifically through animation, to win souls over to Christ,” says Krystofer Pinnock, president of DAE. 

Statistics state that 70–75 percent of Christian youth leave the church after high school (Cross-examined.org) and only half return to the church years later (ChurchLeaders.com). “In the midst of the pandemic, we kinda realized we needed a space for the youth. It was out of that [that DAE] came into being,” says Pastor Donald Hall, educational manager. 

This team of creatives aims to globally engage, inspire, and awaken transformation in others through Jesus Christ. “I feel like we’re entering that space where our young people [are] at. They are on social media, they are taking in content elsewhere; so I feel like in order to really be a part of our youth’s lives, we need to be where they [are] at, and DAE has created that venture where we could really capitalize on that for our young people,” Hall explains.

The group is also involved in praying for the public. “We have a digital creation talking about the love of God or whatever it may be, and at the end of that, we ask people to send in their prayer request,” adds Hall.

The group is currently working on their first movie, entitled The Summit. “It’s a great tale of perseverance through faith in Christ,” says Pinnock. “If someone has an interest and a talent, they see what we’re doing and they figure they can contribute. I believe that we can find a place for just about anybody,” says Elder Michael Campbell, DAE co-founder.

DAE welcomes the participation and contributions of Christian talent from around the globe but requests they adhere to the group’s bylaws when creating content. All content, of course, is screened by the biblical advisory team before distribution.

“I’m a firm believer in not changing our message, but changing the method in which we deliver our message. Social media is where it is right now. If it’s the medium that we have to connect with young people, I believe that as a church that [sic] we should invest whole-heartedly. We need to be there as well with creative content so that they too can see the gospel through digital media. And I feel like that’s what we are trying to accomplish in our DAE group,” says Hall

To get in contact with DAE, send an email to [email protected] or send a prayer request message to them on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Gabrielle White, Digital Animation Evangelism screenwriter

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