World-renowned adventurer, writer and television presenter Bear Grylls and one of the world’s best-known missionaries Jackie Pullinger are just two of the many inspiring stories and interviews of people from across the world, featured in the new Alpha Film Series.

Grace Family Church Ballito will be among the first venues in the world to host The Alpha Film Series, just a week after its global launch on April 14.

Alpha is a series exploring the Christian faith, typically run over ten weeks.

Each talk looks at a different question around faith and is designed to create conversation.

More than 27 million people in 169 countries in 112 languages have tried Alpha since its inception.

The Alpha Film Series is designed to take the audience on an epic journey exploring the basics of the Christian faith.

Repackaged for today’s audience, the Alpha Film Series is emotive, engaging and epic in scale and scope.

Nicky Gumbel and two new presenters, Toby Flint and Gemma Hunt, will be walking audiences through the regular Alpha material in a way that everyone can relate to.

Other interesting people featured include:

• Cardinal Schönborn, well known in the Catholic Church globally for editing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, based in Austria.
• Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the papal household, based in Italy.
• Jose Henriquez Gonzalez, one of the thirty-three miners trapped for sixty-nine days at the San Jose mine, based in Chile.
• Ugo Monye, former English international rugby union player, based in the United Kingdom.
• Julia Immonen, Sky Sports News presenter and double Guinness World Record Atlantic Ocean rower, based in the United Kingdom.
• Alister McGrath, professor of science and religion at the University of Oxford, based in the United Kingdom.
• Propaganda, Christian hip hop and spoken word artist and poet from Los Angeles, based in the USA.
• Scott Harrison, founder of Charity: Water, based in the USA.

Interested in attending without cost, or pressure, or follow up (which is the Alpha way) then come on Wednesday, 20 April at 7pm for the introductory evening.

Contact Shelley at 063 528 5129 or ballito@grace.za.org.

You can also visit alphafilmseries.alpha.org