Month of November, 2008

SANABEL NET is a children's program designed to present basic computer skills. One might wonder just how much a weekly 20-minute presentation on SAT-7 KIDS can actually achieve. But If you speak with program director Samir Assaf in Lebanon, an enthusiastic computer technician, you will see things from a different perspective.

“Is the Bible true, or are people always changing it?”  That is just one of the many questions Iranian viewers of SAT-7 PARS write in and ask on the channels website www.sat7pars.com  Other viewers then write in and answer the questions. One viewer wrote, “I am a young person, and I think Christianity is the religion of love and peace.  I love Jesus very much and want to know more about this love and peace.”

Every day SAT-7 ARABIC broadcasts text messages received from viewers. Most of these messages are in Arabic, but the also arrive in English and French. After receiving a message, SAT-7 reviews it and then adds it to a crawl on the bottom of the screen. This is now a popular feature of many other Arabic TV stations, and viewers often text personal messages to friends who may be watching. These TV stations usually charge for this service. SAT-7 provides the text crawl free of charge, and many of the messages carried on the screen are prayer requests in which the writers are asking the entire SAT-7 audience to pray for their needs.