“Beauty for Ashes” Film Released at Poland Outreach

“Beauty for Ashes” released at Poland outreach

Harvest Fields Commissioning International, a UK based charity, recently held a series of Church Leadership Training meetings in southeastern Poland, an area where few outside ministries venture into. The meetings, titled AGAPE:Live!, were held jointly by four evangelical churches in the region. This is the second venture into this area. The first was held in March when filming took place in nearby Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, as well as interviews made with local Christians. The end result is a 53 minute documentary film “Beauty for Ashes”. The title is taken from Old Testament Scriptures and is symbolic for the changed lives of many Polish people, once ravaged by war and imprisonment, now vibrant and alive through the transformation power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

“Each country in which we minister we produce a one hour film that shares, not just the beauty and history of the nation but its rich spiritual heritage and the challenges of living there as a 21st century Christian,” states the PR Department of HFC International.

The organisation has a bit of a track record. One of their previous productions “Awakening Israel”, which investigates the joys and sorrows of that Biblical land, has been nominated to receive “Best Feature Film Documentary” at the prestigious Sabaoth International Film Festival being held in Milan, Italy next month. Up against multi-million dollar productions such as “End of the Spear” - the story of the five martyred missionaries in the 1950’s - “Awakening Israel” has already attracted worldwide attention in the press and on the internet. The producers have worked on such projects as James Bond films and productions featuring Angelina Jolie.

AGAPE:Live! Events hold Church Leadership Seminars and Evangelistic Events in 36 countries worldwide as a gift to a city and nation. It is an outreach of Harvest Fields Commissioning International, a U.K. Registered Charity. Its websites are at: http://www.agapelive.net and http://www.hfci.net.