February 2009

 

 

   

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

HOME

 

VeggieTales CREATOR PARTNERS WITH MOODY

From Phil Vischer, president at Jellyfish Labs LLC

At the San Francisco World's Fair of 1939, a pavilion was built with the strange title "Sermons from Science." Inside the popular attraction, young pastor and science aficionado Irwin Moon put on dramatic scientific demonstrations and used those demonstrations to support his belief in the Bible. Rather than disproving the Bible, Dr. Moon believed, science could be used to illuminate the wonders of God's creation.

In 1945, the Moody Bible Institute partnered with Moon to form the Moody Institute of Science - a small venture dedicated to the production of scientific films that supported Moon's biblical worldview. For the next 40 years the team at the Moody Institute of Science produced film after film and shared those films with schools, churches and military bases around the world. I watched Moody Science films in church as a kid, as did my mother before me. Even 30 years after it was produced, Moon's 1957 classic "Red River of Life" was still being shown in biology classes at my public high school in suburban Chicago.

Why am I telling you this?  Because today we have a new generation of kids being raised by Nickelodeon, Disney and the Discovery Channel who have no idea these films even exist. Kids who know all about recycling and global warming, but who have had no exposure to science as a tool to actually support the Bible. So I am partnering with Moody to bring some of these classic films back to life. We've launched a new website, JellyTelly.com, which will serve as a sort of online "mini-Nickelodeon" for Christian kids, and we're working with ministries like Focus on the Family and Moody to bring the best Christian kids programming together in one place.

To bring these films to life for today's kids, we've created a new character - a very silly German scientist named Dr. Schniffenhousen - to host and narrate the films, updating the science and throwing in just enough humor to keep kids engaged. Working alongside Moody to rekindle interest in Irwin Moon's amazing work is a tremendous privilege - and a responsibility we take very seriously.

: : See a sample of the "new" films!

 

 

Go to top

 
     

Website designed and maintained by friends and supporters of the Moody Broadcasting Network.

Some materials on this site are used by permission of and © copyrighted by Moody Bible Institute.  All rights reserved.

Comments / inquiries re: this website?  Click here

Revised: 02/11/09