TV Testimony
Superbook Club Ukraine Winning Souls and Awards
CBN.com – In June, 2009, Superbook Club Ukraine won several awards at an international festival of program producers and junior journalists. The festival, “Let’s Be Together,” held in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, included 32 TV productions from 15 cities across Ukraine, CIS and Russia. For 12 years, Superbook Club TV program has brought joy to the children of Ukraine and the CIS. The CBN Ukraine production team won awards for Best Program Design, Best Program Editing and Best Camerawork. Two Superbook Club actresses, Dasha Kosova and Masha Panchuk, were awarded appreciation certificates for their active participation in festival life.
Superbook Club includes child actors and actresses who tell children about God’s love and moral values as well as air episodes of the familiar TV cartoon, Superbook. The show’s popularity and godly influence are evidenced by the great number of letters pouring in from young viewers and the calls coming in to the counseling phone line.
One of the young actresses, Dasha Kosova, has hosted another popular Ukrainian TV show, Step Towards the Stars, for six years under the auspices of Michael Poplavsky, the president of the Ukrainian University of Arts. She’s 12-years-old and has been performing on Superbook Club for two years. In a recent interview, she told how participation in Superbook Club has changed her life.
“I’ve never seen anyone on TV respecting God so much,” she said. “I liked that the program is educative, not just for entertainment. It tells me about that there is goodness in the world and one should strive for that.”
Dasha was asked how she had personally applied what she’d learned from Superbook Club to her own life.
“I found myself in a situation when the words of prayer read by me in the program really helped me. There were the following words: ‘Lord, forgive me that I was resentful towards people, and teach me to forgive and love them as you do,’” Dasha said. “And it happened - I quarreled with my girlfriend, and we didn't talk to each other for a year. I felt heaviness that she suffered. I knew that she didn't come up to me first, so I dared and became the first to ask for her forgiveness. Now all our classmates want to follow our example. Now people in our class do not quarrel as they used to. Instead they try to make peace and ask for forgiveness. I see that the programs have impact not only on me, but on our entire class.”
Recently, Dasha received God into her heart. She told of her experience in an interview.
“I would like to have a part of God in me. When I prayed I had a feeling that I was a glove and the Lord just put that glove on His hand. I felt peace and ease in my soul,” she said. “When I opened my eyes the world seemed to me different, more colorful and kind. I looked at the world through entirely different eyes. Then I realized that I made a right decision when I prayed.”
Superbook Club Ukraine program producers, Valentina Gershunenko and Tatiana Ivanova, were extremely pleased with the warm welcoming, fair judging, love towards children and sensitivity to their needs and dreams that they witnessed from the organizers of the festival, studio directors, TV and press. They expressed a special message for those who support CBN:
“We remember and fulfill the commandment of our Lord about letting children come to Him, and rejoice about that there is a contribution of your heart, dear partners, into that ministry.”
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