Actress Candace Cameron Bure took center stage at the 32nd annual Movieguide Awards, known colloquially in the film industry as the Christian Oscars, where she led the room full of awards nominees and attendees in a moving prayer. Hosted in Hollywood, the Movieguide Awards were established specifically to focus both on successes in Christian filmmaking as well as centering lives and success around Christ.
Hosted this year on March 6th, which intentionally shared a date close to the more famous, and nowadays more woke, Academy Awards, the premise of awarding their version of Best Picture, Best Show, and so on, is finding films with wholesome messages or entertainment not overtly political. Past family film winners have included Frozen, Puss in Boots, and Super Mario Bros.
“I would like to just close us in prayer, and if you would bow your heads,” the former Full House star petioned the room before saying, “Please, Lord, we come before you, and we are so grateful that we are able to gather together in this room. Lord, my prayer for today is that all the people in this room would be bold for you, that they would continue to be bold in their scripts, in their writing and they’re producing and directing the fear of man would not be bigger than the fear and awe and reverence of You, Lord and may every person in this room know who you are.”
“I pray that you would pursue every heart in this room and every heart that is watching this right now pursue relentlessly so that they may know your mercy and love and grace, and we remember that while we’re being honored and giving honor to so many that there’s no one that deserves higher honor than you because you gave your one and only Son for all of us to die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin, so that be we can be reconciled to you and justified before you on Judgment Day. We thank You, Lord. We love you. I pray everyone gets home safely tonight, and I pray in Jesus name Amen. Thank you,” she finished.
Watch that special moment at the 32nd annual Movieguide Awards ceremony here:
Great American Family, the network which aired the awards show, has long prided itself and indeed identified as an outspoken Christ-centered production company aimed at returning programming to the uplifting of the Holy Spirit. It focuses on content directed at both faith and family.
“Faith and family entertainment has seen tremendous success in recent years, proving how persistently popular it is for the masses. Great American Family and Pure Flix lead all other brands with our values-driven content. Congratulations to our talent and the talented people behind the films who are committed to making inspired, faith and family stories,” Bill Abbott, President & CEO, Great American Media, said in advance of the March 6th awards show.
The American Tribune previously reported comments from Bure in the days leading up to the election, where she called on Christians to vote like Jesus. “Christian … if you are undecided on whether to vote or who to vote for, please watch!!” she wrote on the post, while simultaneously added a sticker reading, “please VOTE.”
Bure also had called on Christians to embody a Christ-like spirit amid the contentious political climate in the U.S. “I know that the Holy Spirit gives us the fruit of the Spirit when we’re in Christ: joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. And so, I feel as..because God gives each and every one of us self-control, that’s something we need to have when we’re in those hot topics and divisive conversations,” she said.
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