The BibleProject's Ambitious 2024 Series

• 🚀 A new, ambitious video series, the culmination of three years of work, is set to premiere on January 1, 2024.
• 💡 The series, titled "Sermon on the Mount," will explore Jesus' teachings on a hillside and the concept of God's Kingdom coming to Earth.
• 🎯 This 10-part video series will be accompanied by a companion podcast series and monthly releases on YouTube.

Behind the Scenes: The Creation Process

• 🔬 The creation process involves several key steps: scholarship, dialogue, content creation, localization, and education.
• 📚 The scholarship team, including Dean of Scholarship Renjy Abraham, engages in deep textual analysis, translating and debating interpretations over months.
• 💬 Jon and Tim engage in hours of dialogue to refine language, storyline, and key ideas before scriptwriting, capturing their collaborative discovery process.
• 🎨 The animation studio, led by Story Lead Rose and Creative Director Robert Perez, transforms scripts into visual narratives through storyboarding, illustration, and animation, a process that can take months per video.

Global Reach and Localization Efforts

• 🌍 BibleProject's content is localized into 55 languages and dialects, with over 5,000 localized videos produced to date.
• 🗣️ This extensive localization effort aims to reach over 5 billion people in their native languages, making biblical resources accessible worldwide.
• 🤝 Local teams and generous supporters fund this global endeavor, ensuring content remains free.

Expanding Educational Resources

• 🎓 The BibleProject Classroom offers free, high-quality biblical education online, featuring communal discussions and scholar-led insights.
• 📈 Classroom has experienced significant growth, quadrupling its user base in the past year, largely due to its integration into the BibleProject app.
• 🗓️ In 2024, Classroom will expand to desktop, sync progress between platforms, and release new classes, including studies on Ezekiel, the remainder of Genesis, and the Gospel of Matthew.

The Vision: Fostering Biblical Understanding

• ❤️ The ultimate goal of BibleProject is not just to have people watch videos, but to help them fall in love with the Scriptures and learn to read the Bible for themselves.
• 🌟 The organization aims to create "Bible nerds" by providing accessible, in-depth resources that encourage personal engagement with biblical texts.