LIVE 58

58: is a Christ-centered global initiative to end extreme poverty. 58: answers Isaiah’s challenge to “shout it aloud and do not hold back” through astonishing communications. And 58: honors the True Fast of Isaiah by engagement in poverty-eradicating action. 58: is built for you to create, shape and join communities of passionate, like-minded Christians who will work together to end extreme poverty in our lifetime.

This is no call to slacktivism. We are impatient, committed Christ-followers with revolutionary intentions. We will work with perseverance and resolve for the lifting of the extremely poor, all 1.4 billion of them, and we will not be satisfied until that new reality has come.

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FAST FORWARDING THE END OF POVERTY: 58 THE FILM

Here’s the trailer for 58: THE FILM from Live 58, a Christ-centered global initiative to end extreme poverty in our generation:

58: THE FILM Trailer from LIVE58NOW on Vimeo.

The film releases in October. Here’s the synopsis:

 

WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED. WILL WE DO EVERYTHING IT TAKES?
Premiering this October, 58: is the inspiring true story of the global Church in action. Witness bravery and determined faith in a journey from the slums of Kenya to the streets of New York. Confront the brutality of extreme poverty and meet those who live out the True Fast of Isaiah 58 and create stunning new possibilities for the future.

Travel from the sun-scorched plains of rural Ethiopia to British shopping centers, from Brazilian ganglands and the enslaving quarries of India to western churches, businesses and conferences.

58: invites audiences to discover the incredible work of God through His people in our hurting world. Meet ordinary people, hear their stories, and see their struggles and their victories as 58: shows the relentlessly loving God at work through His Church bringing hope to the darkest challenges of our day. Experience eye-opening reasons to lift our expectations of the future.

Woven with Biblical truth, this film draws audiences into life-changing examples of the True Fast of Isaiah 58 — a young British woman prevailing over the pressures of consumer society, Ethiopian Christians working to restore their environment, an American business owner promoting Fair Trade coffee and connecting his local community with the work of ending poverty, a local pastor in India working to be a Good Samaritan to those enslaved by bonded labor, and the sacrificial generosity of New York youth giving up their own food for the sake of those with even less. These impatient revolutionaries and ordinary prophets present viewers with an empowering vision of the Church rising up to its remarkable potential to end extreme poverty, by bringing God’s words through Isaiah to life in our time, in our day.

Experience 58: this October on television, online, on DVD.