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Becky Fischer is the founder and director of Kids in Ministry International KIMI , a multi-faceted ministry that trains children to walk in the supernatural power of God and equips adults to work with children in the same way. Becky, who served as a children's pastor for ten years prior to starting KIMI, received Jesus as her Savior and the infilling of the Holy Spirit at an early age. She knows first-hand that children can be touched and used by God and recognized early in her ministry career that children are hungry for a supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit.
Fischer spent twenty-three years in business before answering the call to fulltime ministry. She was later employed as the children's pastor and as a graphic artist by MorningStar Publications and Ministries, Inc.
Becky has trained thousands of children, teens, parents, and children's workers through conferences, Bible schools, mission trips, churches and resource materials. She has also been a featured author in the Ministry Today magazine. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime. What really happened behind the scenes of this controversial documentary? Amid accusations of child abuse, brainwashing, and indoctrinating children, Becky Fischer, a Pentecostal children's pastor of twenty years, allowed this movie to continue to be played and sold even though many movie reviews and news commentators held her and her ministry up to serious question.
Why didn't she renounce it like many Christian leaders thought she should? Why didn't she back away from it when many critics felt it put Christianity in a negative light? This book will answers these questions and more including: What do they believe? Read more Read less.
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Thousands of books are eligible, including current and former best sellers. Fischer explains that she does not believe that people are able to choose their belief system once they pass childhood, and that it is important that they be "indoctrinated" in evangelical Christian values from a young age. Fischer also explains that democracy is flawed and designed to destroy itself "because we have to give everyone equal freedom".
The DVD , released in January , includes 15 deleted scenes. In another, a woman takes several of the kids on a "prayer walk" through Lee's Summit, and later takes them to a pro-life women's clinic.
Jesus Camp, My Story: A Biographical Review of the Oscar Nominated Movie "Jesus Camp"
A Planned Parenthood clinic is located next door, and the woman has the kids pray over it. In an interview, the pro-life clinic's director says that she was very pleased to see children so passionate about ending abortion. However, according to Grady and Ewing, Fischer and the others did not see their activism for socially conservative causes as political, but as a matter of faith. They also reveal that Fischer and the others did not understand why some of the scenes of them speaking in tongues and praying over objects were included in the film, since such occurrences were second nature to them.
Furthermore, on the DVD commentary, Heidi and Grady refer to the central character, Becky Fisher, as "a great documentary subject" because of her charisma. According to Ron Reno of Focus on the Family ,. The directors' claims that they were simply trying to create an 'objective' film about children and faith ring hollow. I don't question the motives of the Christians shown in the film. Indeed, the earnestness and zeal with which the young people pictured attempt to live out their faith are admirable. Unfortunately, however, it appears that they were unknowingly being manipulated by the directors in their effort to cast evangelical Christianity in an unflattering light.
In November , Fischer announced that she would be shutting down the camp due to negative reaction towards her in the film. According to Fischer's website, the owners of the property used for the camp shown in the film were concerned about vandalism to the premises following the film's release and thus will not allow it to be used for any future camps.
Fischer has said that the camp will be indefinitely postponed until other suitable premises can be found, but that it will be back. The website's consensus states, "Evangelical indoctrination is given an unflinching, even-handed look in this utterly worthwhile documentary. Michael Smith of the Tulsa World gave the film three stars out of four, describing it as "impressive in its even-handed presentation", "straightforward" and "a revealing, unabashed look at the formation of tomorrow's army of God.
The Chicago Tribune reviewer Jessica Reaves also gave the film three stars out of four and writes that Jesus Camp is "an enlightening and frank look at what the force known as Evangelical America believes, preaches and teaches their children" and concludes that what the filmmakers "have accomplished here is remarkable—capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement. Some reviewers responded negatively to the film; Rob Nelson of the Village Voice called the movie "[an] absurdly hypocritical critique of the far right's role in the escalating culture war", [18] and J.
Jones of the Chicago Reader criticized the film for "failing to distinguish the more fundamentalist Pentecostals" and for inserting "unnecessary editorializing" by using clips from Mike Papantonio 's radio show. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jesus Camp Promotional poster. The basic storyline follows a year in the lives of three children from evangelical Christian families in Missouri, and focuses considerably on their experience at an evangelical summer camp.
The kids, year-old Levi, year-old Tory, and 9-year-old Rachel are, of course, endearing in their cuteness, but frightening in their fervor. Levi thinks that he will become a pastor, and his preaching to kids is starkly reminiscent Before reviewing this book I wathched the the documentary of this book. Levi thinks that he will become a pastor, and his preaching to kids is starkly reminiscent of the Bible thumpers of Sunday morning TV. At camp, Tory is shown several times with tears streaming down her face, not least when a pro-life leader comes and distributes miniature plastic fetuses to illustrate the evil of abortion and again when many kids at camp begin speaking in tongues.
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Rachel, a nine-year-old evangelist, walks up to perfect strangers to ask them if they believe they're going to heaven and whether they would like to talk about Jesus. In short, the kids are the perfect spokespeople for the Jesus movement.
The infusion of politics into religion is also notable, as the children are told of the evils of homosexuality, that prayer in school is necessary for schools to teach effectively, and that America is responsible for the deaths of fifty million innocent children since The families even travel to Washington to protest in front of the Supreme Court building. The most awkward parts of the movie were scenes with Mike Papantonio, an Air America radio host.
I felt the scenes involving him seemed a little forced, although a conversation at the end between the charismatic camp director, Becky Fischer, and Papantonio was an interesting microcosm of the larger political debate in this country. The people in the film were so sure of their beliefs that nothing in the movie showed them wavering. I wonder if the film might not have been stronger if they had left that sense of certainty alone.
Ewing and Grady also chose to use the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court as a thread to tie the film together.
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Unfortunately, none of the subjects of the documentary spent much time talking directly about the Supreme Court. They talked about some of the issues that the Supreme Court might deal with, but the nomination of judges didn't seem to be a big factor in their lives. There were a few scenes in which radio announcers and guest speakers at the camp encouraged the families to pray for. Jan 10, Sunny rated it liked it.
Have you heard of [Jesus Camp]? But what could this have to with the outrage? Right now, nothing sounds out of the ordinary not that ordinary is always good XD. But the thing is, Becky is evangelical! She and her church have very extreme Have you heard of [Jesus Camp]? She and her church have very extreme beliefs.
The children had very serious commitments; I think they were more serious about their religion than some adults. Becky Fischer keeps saying in the documentary. I wonder if the children in are actually sincere in their belief. They also learnt about abortion, which made people angry. I think they should have been more careful with sensitive issues like that. I like the way how she talked, saying everything she wanted to say, and stating it clearly. Becky Fischer mentions Harry Potter, and says she never said anything bad about it in the documentary.
I disliked that part. After reading this book, I found out a lot about evangelism. And I have an unsolved question: Are the children actually happy? Jan 11, Gabi Park rated it liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Unfortunately, I'm one of those 'most people' person so I don't understand anything of what ms. Fischer and the other evangelical Christians are doing. I don't really think that the camp is child abuse and brainwashing place. They seem to treat the childeren well, and for the brainwashing, I don't think that it should be called brainwashing because it seems like the kids are believing in what they want.
The thing that I really really don't understand is why the kids are taught that global warming doesn't exist. Global warming is a serious problem to the whole world, so it isn't like they can be like "It doesn't have anything to do with us". And they don't believe in evolution!!! I do know that they think that god created them and everything, but they should at least have a chance.
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The killing of Harry Potter. This is really really realllllyyy serious. I guess that they could think that Mr. Potter is evil and everything, but I really think that they should have a chance to read it. The only thing that I sort of agreed with was the abortion thing. I don't think that kids who didn't even have the chance to see the would should be 'killed', literally.
They are also lives, even if they don't look like humans yet. I guess that I could sort of say that I liked the book, even if I didn't really believe what Ms. I recommend this to people that are evangelical Christians. Jul 24, Susan Bazzett-Griffith rated it it was ok Shelves: Sometimes my reading spins me into a bit of a rabbit hole where I must then stop what I'm doing and move onto another source before I even finish a first book- thus is how I wound up reading this not-a-gem of a book.
Have been meandering through a nonfiction called Rapture Ready here and there for the past couple of weeks and then came to a reference to the movie Jesus Camp which I'd watched years before, but kind of forgotten it, so I found that on Netflix and watched it again. Then I had to lo Sometimes my reading spins me into a bit of a rabbit hole where I must then stop what I'm doing and move onto another source before I even finish a first book- thus is how I wound up reading this not-a-gem of a book.
Then I had to look up where all those kids were online, which led me to finding out that the leader of that Jesus Camp had written a book, which, to my delight, was free on Kindle Unlimited. So I downloaded and read well, skimmed some of the super preachy parts Becky Fischer's book. Two stars because giving it more would make me feel dirty.
Jan 11, Emily rated it liked it. Before I read this book, I did not notice that this 'Jesus Camp' was such a controversial issue. This big incident had happened when I was so young, and I have never heard about it even though I was living in America as a Christian. Therefore, I was just reading with no doubt at the first. I assumed that it would be a normal Christian book. However, as I kept going on reading, some values and actions just hit me with a big confusion and incomprehensible mind.
Yes, it was very strange. As the res Before I read this book, I did not notice that this 'Jesus Camp' was such a controversial issue. As the result, it made me search on the internet about 'who is Becky Fischer?
Then, I noticed this was close to the Evangelical Christianity and about the controversy about the question of brainwashing and children abuse. Well, nobody can make sure that those situations are all children abuse. It could be one of their cultures too. However, for me, I was quite upset with them. I deem it was an extreme Christianity. I feel like it would ruin those children to be a confident people who can trust themselves. I watched the documentary and this book. Documentaries can be filmed in a narrow view from the directors.
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And this book is also written by Becky Fischer who wanted to protect herself from the negative arguments of her camp. Which is absolute that this book is 'only her idea'. Maybe there can be personal opinions from every person, but I suppose that we cannot trust anyone firmly because this medium can always be narrow-minded.
I want to recommend this book to only those who have the same religious opinion with the author, Becky Fischer. If you are quite confused whether to read or not, please search for it before reading it. I hope you could make a certain opinion. Jan 11, Marine rated it liked it. When I first saw this book I thought it was an ordinary religions book. It was like a whole new religion. I never even heard of it before. This made me want to read this book more. I wondered why they do those things.
At first I felt scared. They say some people even tried to break the church because they were doing weird things. Like shouting and dancing and drumming. I felt like they were in front of me. I even dreamed of Jesus camp following me. But what was so wrong with tha When I first saw this book I thought it was an ordinary religions book.