After months of cancelled plans, six summer events unexpectedly took SAT-7’s public engagement team into communities across Lebanon. There, they brought fun and hope to children displaced by war and gave young voices a chance to be heard across the region.

Almost 20 years ago, Pastor Nihad Hassan discovered that God could transform even a prison cell into a place of hope and healing. He shared his story with SAT-7 ARABIC, never knowing that, years later, his testimony would follow him into another prison this summer, and change lives across the region.

This September, millions of children will return to classrooms across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Millions more will not. From war-damaged schools in Sudan, Gaza and Lebanon to classrooms forbidden to girls in Afghanistan, SAT-7 is helping children hold on to learning. And to hope.

For many children in Lebanon, recent years have been marked by conflict, uncertainty and disruption. Economic challenges, school closures and displacement have affected families and communities across the country. Against that backdrop, opportunities for children to connect, learn and build positive relationships are rare – but vital.

Lebanon’s young people are considering their own responsibility to “truly become makers of peace” in a country and region devastated by conflict and division.

A team from SAT-7 KIDS is visiting schools and refugee camps in Lebanon to promote mental health awareness and online safety, whilst also highlighting the positive content available on the channel and its various platforms.

Knowing that many families in Lebanon are facing a season of pain and displacement after months of conflict in the country, compassion has driven the SAT-7 KIDS team out of the studio to demonstrate the love of Jesus this Christmas time.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a rich and diverse Christian heritage dating back to the birth of Jesus in the region and to the early spread of the Gospel, which went out from there “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8b).