Rio Grande Christian Education Resource Center

Hope Lives. Group Publishing, DVD, 2008.

A 5 session group study resource on how God calls us to respond to poverty.  A compelling book and DVD led series with teaching helps will lead your group on a journey of exploration the motivations and issues surrounding how we do and do not respond to poverty. 

Serving Like Christ Together. Zondervan, DVD and guide, 2005.

Jesus lived and taught six heart attitudes that lead to passionate service: humility, a clear understanding of success, compassion, caring for others as we would care for Christ, trust in God’s authority, and openness to outsiders. This six-week guide and DVD includes practical ideas for a group service project.

Countering Pharaoh's Production-Consumption Society Today. LTQ, 2006, DVD.

"It is a journey from slavery to covenant that we keep making over and over again... [because] Pharaoh has immense power always to draw us back into slavery." - Walter Brueggemann

A new study for Progressive Christians. Ideal for Advent and Lent, flexible in format, Countering Pharaoh can be conducted over four or five sessions. The program includes over an hour of video on DVD and a CD-Rom with printable written materials.

• Session One: The Way Out
• Session Two: The Decalogue
• Session Three: Countering Caesar
• Session Four: An Act of Imagination
• Session Five: On Not Doing God Any Favors

Return to Hepu. Episcopal Radio/Tv, VHS.

An introduction to the life and ministry of the Reverend Florence Li Tim Oi, the first woman ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican communion.  Florence Li Tim-Oi was ordained a priest by Bp. Ronald Hall of Hong Kong in 1944, primarily because of difficulties occasioned by the Japanese occupation of China. A storm of protest after the war forced her to refrain  from exercising her role as a priest. Towards the end of her life, she emigrated to Canada where she was able to resume her priestly duties.  She died in 1992.  She is remembered in the church calendar on January 24.  You can learn more about her life here.  30 min.

Faithful Defiance: Desmond Tutu. Trinty Media, VHS.

Award winning documentary about the life and ministry of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  52 Min.  Also available online at Trinity Wall Street.

The Heart Has its Reasons. Journey Comm, 1984, VHS.

A video documentary about Jean Vanier and the L'Arche community for people with mental handicaps.  57 min.

Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace. Gateway, 1999, VHS.

What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. The Nazis hanged him on April 9, 1945, less than a month before the end of the war. Bonhoeffer's last years, his participation in the German resistance and his moral struggle are dramatized in this film. More than just a biographical portrait, Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace sheds light on the little-known efforts of the German resistance. It brings to a wide audience the heroic rebellion of Bonhoeffer, a highly regarded Lutheran minister who could have kept his peace and saved his life on several occasions but instead paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.  Produced by Oregon Public Broadasting, this film was the winner of Best Film at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 2000.  90 minutes, closed captioned. 

Hidden in Silence. Bridgestone, 2002, VHS.

Based on a true story about a teenage girl in Nazi Europe who must raise her little sister on her own,plus take in 13 Jews who she manages to hide in her attic. 93 min.

The Forgotten Faithful. Episcopal Radio & TV, 1988, VHS

Israeli Jews, Arab Christians and Muslims speak to the need for truth, justice and peace in the Occupied Territories and the Holy Land.  30 min.

Beatrice's Goat. 60 minutes, CBS. VHS

An episode of 60 minutes featuring the grown up woman featured in the Heifer Project children's book 'Beatrice's Goat'.  Now in college in the United States and interning in congress, she shares how the work of Heifer truly evolved her village and changed her life.  From 2005. Available with the children's book.  A great accompaniment to the Animal Crackers series from Heifer Project or any Heifer Project fund raiser.