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I intend to gather our teens in person to install the game on our smartphones and start this journey, studying the Word in a playful way and in their language! Unfortunately, here in the Northeast, the digital inclusion is still very deficient, and some do not have a cell phone, others do not have a stable internet signal, but God can do all things!”. “Congratulations on the excellent initiative! So relevant in these strange times of staying at home and social isolation. Dozens of testimonies from users have been collected by the Heroes team, including the following:Īna Batista, mother to Anabel (14 years old) is a teen leader in the Church of Christ Emmanuel in Paula Afonso (a non-Adventist church). Of more than 100,000 current downloads of the app, approximately 40 per cent (43,087) of these are from Brazil, followed by the United States (11,409), Philippines, Mexico and Colombia. And 90 per cent of all the people that start studying via Esperança finish all their studies.” TESTIMONIES “Using this system, William Timm in Brazil told us that the response to the Bible studies is almost 90 per cent. She interacts via WhatsApp with Spanish and Portuguese speakers and sends them links to Bible studies,” explains Nascimento. “The AI is called ‘Esperança’ (‘Hope’ in English). And thirdly, in partnership with Hope Channel Brazil (Novo Tempo), which are using artificial intelligence (AI) to interact with users and send them studies. Secondly, by joining study or prayer groups-usually directed by a pastor or youth leader. It can also be found through Hope Channel’s Bible study platform hope.study, which has lots of user-friendly resources. Firstly, through online, self-directed study via the Heroes app or website. Users can access and consume the Bible studies via multiple different pathways. “The studies ask questions such as, ‘What happens when you die?’, ‘How to deal with anxiety, and ‘If God is good, why do we suffer?’” “We put them together in a course,” explains Nascimento. Practically, the Heroes team used SEO software to determine the most searched Bible-related questions on the internet.
And that’s when the questions get really deep.” “We all know the story of Joseph and his brothers, but the big question in that narrative is, ‘How can we forgive our loved ones that do things against us?’ You start by playing the game, interacting with the stories, and that leads you to ask the big questions and get to know the greatest hero of them all-Jesus. “That’s the name of the Bible studies actually, ‘The Big Questions’,” he explains. While fundamentally a Bible trivia game, a major focus of the Heroes initiative is to encourage users to engage with scripture in a deeper way through Bible studies.Īccording to Neves, the original objective of the game was to connect young men with the biblical narrative, and then based on that narrative expose them to the Bible’s big questions. “Of course, the numbers are good and motivate us to work harder, but our main goal is to give people a tool that motivates them to study the Bible more.” A BIBLE STUDY TOOL Officially released as “Heroes 2” on March 26, eight years after its pioneer game was released in 2013, the new game has since changed its name to “Heroes”, because according to Neves, “there are more versions coming” and new updates are continually being released.Īccording to Heroes project manager Jefferson Nascimento, the 100,000 downloads milestone was achieved in only nine months without any paid advertising. “To have finished the year of launch with a community of over 100,000 players is amazing.” “We certainly hoped it would be downloaded and played many times, but you never know with games,” explains associate director of communication for the global Adventist Church, Sam Neves. In the closing hours of 2021, Hope Channel reached a new milestone when Heroes: The Bible Trivia Game exceeded 100,000 downloads globally.
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