TBN's Christian Children's Programming to Debut Christmas Eve
The world’s largest religious network will begin offering 24 hours of Christian Children’s programming beginning on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24.
Smile of a Child Network, founded by Jan Crouch, offers children ranging from preschool to age 12, morally and Biblically-based children programming, combining puppets, 3-D animation, and actual news footage to entertain its young viewers. The children network is part of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) – founded by Crouch and her husband Paul Crouch – which is America’s most watched faith channel with more than 47 satellites and 12,000 televisions and cable affiliates worldwide.
"With the launch of TBN's Smile of a Child channel the TBN family of network's now reaches every age category within the faith genre," said Bob Higley, TBN's Vice President of Cable and Satellite Relations. "It will be the cable industry's only faith-based network targeting preschool to 12 year old children."
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Smile of a Child Ministry was founded several years ago by Crouch, her husband, and other ministry partners to reach out to needy children throughout the world with Haiti being the first outreach nation.
"This wonderful new network is really an extension of the vision God gave me for our whole Smile of a Child ministry to pour the love of God into the hearts and lives of children all over the world," Crouch said. “Television is a perfect tool to do that."
"It began simply with providing dolls to poverty-stricken children in Haiti," she explaiend. "It's grown to taking many thousands of toys to children all over the globe, as well as providing needed medical care through building hospitals in places like Haiti and Costa Rica. And now we've added the powerful medium of television to take Smile of a Child to countless thousands more precious children."
According to the Smile of a Child Network programming director, Brenda Rossman, the new TBN addition will both entertain as well as provide moral instruction to its child audience.
"There's certainly been no shortage of educational children's TV programs," said Rossman. "And parents have been grateful for it. But the Smile of a Child Network takes it a step further and adds the crucial element of spiritual instruction that will really bear fruit in the lives of children for many years to come.
“Parents can rest assured that Smile of a Child will be completely free of the violence and crude humor that unfortunately has crept into many of today's children's shows," said Rossman. "This new and innovative network is all about helping children develop positive social and spiritual skills at a young age."
Among the programming to air on Smile of a Child Network include: Kingdom Adventure, Gina D’s Kids Club, BJ’s Teddy Bear Club & Bible Stories, Retro News: A Blast from the Past, and Maralee Dawn & Friends.
"The Smile of a Child Television Network is right on the leading edge of new and innovative children's TV," said Dave Bohon, a Christian media expert and vice president of the Christian public relations firm WDC Media. "Over the months and years ahead we can expect it to be setting the standard for the best in Christian children's programming."
