Create International is an international ministry of Youth With A Mission

Youth With A Mission

Youth With A Mission is an international, inter-denominational, non-profit Christian missionary organization...

 that specializes in the production of media tools to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to unreached people group

Unreached people group

An unreached people group refers to an ethnic group without an indigenous, self propagating Christian church movement. Any ethnic or ethnolinguistic nation without enough Christians to evangelize the rest of the nation is an Unreached People Group...

s. Create International was formed in 1987 and now has centers in Australia, India, and Thailand.

Ministry

The vision of Create International is to communicate the message of Jesus Christ in ways that people can understand from their cultural and linguistic

Natural language

In the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...

 background, using tools that can be widely circulated. This includes the use of dramatic films, evangelistic artwork, websites, and indigenous music. Create International also produces documentary-style

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 people group

Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy...

 profiles as well as missionary

Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...

 training video's. As of 2011, Create International has produced films for over 50 different people groups.

Evangelistic Films

Create International's dramatic evangelistic films are unique due to the level of contextualization

Contextualization

Contextualization may refer to:* Contextualization , the process of contextualising the biblical message as perceived in the missionary mandate originated by Jesus...

 represented in each film. Each film is made in a culturally relevant setting whilst remaining faithful to the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

. In this way they are to communicate the gospel in a way that can be clearly understood by the people group the film represents.

Video People Profiles

Create International's video people profiles are 10 to 20 minute documentaries that focus on a specific unreached people group, covering their history, socio-economics, demographics, as well as their religious customs and spiritual needs. These video people profiles have been used worldwide in [church] gatherings and amongst missionary organizations to facilitate informed prayer and missionary work amongst the peoples.

Church Planting Films

As part of their training video library, Create International has produced a number of films that give examples of contextual house gatherings that can be used to equip church planters

Church planting

Church planting is a process that results in a new Christian church being established. It should be distinguished from church development, where a new service, new worship centre or fresh expression is created that is integrated into an already established congregation...

. Models for starting family gatherings, inviting neighbourhood friends for prayer and study of the Word together, responding to seekers' questions, and raising up other leaders are illustrated in these films.