Introducing FFV Media
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Introduction to Forgotten Five Media
Welcome
Welcome to forgotten five multimedia. We aim to serve the five key unreached Berber peoples of North Africa. We will refer to them as the FFV languages. These five languages represent the five largest unreached Berber peoples in the region. Each language is alive and well in the homes and hearts of between 1 and 8 million speakers. Our prayer is that through an unrelenting sustained focus on these languages we will prepare the way for an awakening of these hearts to the love and the light of our saviour Jesus Christ.
We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity. Never before for these tribes and hundreds like them around the world has there been such open widespread access to information. In particular access to media of all kinds via the internet in all its forms is revolutionising our world.
Unfortunately for many peoples such as our forgotten five, the choice of films available for viewing in their own language is slim. And as our forgotten five don't make it onto the priority lists for the big Christian productions (such as CBN's superbook), this could quite well remain so. Therefore they risk being truly neglected – unless someone takes up the call to bring them the gospel in their own languages through multimedia. This is our desire, our vision.
Our call
God can only explain how, why and where he calls his children to serve. We attest to a burden and a vision – a burden, like Paul to interrupt our other journeys and to head over to this area of the world to help them come to know our Lord, – a vision, to focus on "multimedia dubbing and production". We believe that multimedia production (with all its associated work) is the most efficient, fastest way to provide a varied and solid presentation of a quality gospel to the widest possible audience.
These Amazigh peoples
Over the last half-century we have seen the Kabyle peoples of northern Algeria respond in a wonderful way to the good news. There are now dozens of alive growing churches there representing a very significant movement of people from a Muslim background to the faith of Christ. We believe that the Kabyle church is now beyond its infancy, and that Kabyle is no longer an unreached language. From an audio-visual point of view this is indicated by a comparison of the amount of hours of Christian video content available in that language – around 30 thousand minutes – this compares with less than 500 minutes in each of the other FFV languages.
Our strategy
There are a number of translators and dedicated workers championing the cause of the FFV languages. However these workers are often isolated and working with very limited resources. Our desire is to form a group of qualified motivated audio-video specialists to come alongside them and to focus with them on video productions that will augment the effect of their work. We envisage that the internet sites of these partners (which are already known to the FFV peoples) would be one of the first destinations for our future publications. We also envisage the creation of other content delivery channels and of applications for telephone (eg. Iphone, Android) which will facilitate access to the gospel content in the FFV languages as it becomes available, and thereby magnify its impact. Our products would also be available to any satellite television channel open to broadcasting in any of the FFV languages.
About FFV Media
Forgotten Five Media is a group of supported workers from partner agencies which welcomes Christian workers with a vision for the FFV peoples. All FFV workers find their own support – FFV has no salaried staff. FFV seeks funds in order to meet expenses relating to its projects such as translation, hiring of studio space, purchase of software, etc. FFV works in partnership with well known Christian organisations who are able to receive funds (and in some cases provide tax deductible receipts) in many countries around the world and transfer them to our bank account in France.