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Filmmaker Heidi Ewing said she was raised Catholic and her co-director, Rachel Grady, is Jewish, enabling them to present what they hope is a neutral view of Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire" program.

So a lapsed Catholic and a Socialist prsent a balanced view? (and yes, I am a Jew, and I am quite sure Ms Grady is not)

"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in Pakistan and in Israel and Palestine and all those different places. Because we have, excuse me, but we have the truth."

She is my hero! Bravo!!!

I was unaware of this video but watched it recently (got it from Netflix). Actually, the most shocking thing about it is that the young boy, Levi, who preaches at the camp, went to Ted Haggard’s church and shook hands with the pastor and had a conversation. After this film was made, this self same pastor was disgraced in a huge scandal over homosexuality and illicit drugs.

I am sitting here today wondering if anyone ever told that sweet kid, Levi, about it. The kids in this film are sheltered from the world so much so that one little girl who wanted to experience real rain dropping on her head was made to go back into the house by her mother and the little girl only got to experience “10 drops of rain” - free falling rain.

These kids are homeschooled and completely immersed in pentecostal type religious experiences.

The worst thing is that the kid Levi, the young preacher, was standing there having a conversation with this preacher who was later exposed as a hypocrite and fraud. The preacher in question preached against homosexuality and come to find out, that was the very sin that brought him down.

This is sad and I don’t know what to make of it except that the adults let that kid, Levi, down.