(From CBN, cbn.com , 4-23-25) The Jesus Film Project has impacted millions around the globe by delivering the gospel message in more than 2,200 languages through its 1979 “Jesus” movie.
Now, the organization has taken on a new project to confirm reports of people in other countries coming to the Christian faith after encountering Jesus Christ in dreams and visions.
As CBN News and The 700 Club have reported for decades, consistent stories have emerged of people seeing Jesus face-to-face, often in countries closed off to Christianity, and this new project aims to confirm the stories.
The Jesus Film Project, a ministry of Cru based in Orlando, Florida, is now compiling field reports about these Jesus encounters from their teams and missionary contacts in remote locations.
“We are really excited to hear from the field, as we often do, of different people who have had dreams and visions of Jesus. And it happens quite frequently in our ministry,” Holly Newell, with Special Projects at the Jesus Film, told K-LOVE.
“Jesus Film serves over 1,800 different missional partners. So, it’s not just our people that are out around the world using the film. It’s actually tens of thousands of missionaries and sometimes they’ll send us stories that they hear and it’s really exciting when we get to hear how the Lord is moving,” she added.
Newell told the outlet of some of the exciting stories she is hearing from people on the ground.
One of her friends lives and works in the Middle East and met a woman from a nation where there are very few Christians.
“This woman said that one night she had a dream of a man in white. She woke up in the morning and she called her best friend, and she said, ‘I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it. He came and appeared to me. Mohammed came just for me.’ This woman’s best friend just laughed at her and said, ‘There is nothing special about you. There’s no way that Mohammed would come just to you,'” Newell recounted.
“This dear woman was so disappointed, but she kept thinking there was something special about that dream. And so, she did what all of us do when we have a question. And she Googled, who is the man in white? And that Google search took her to our YouTube page where we have the Jesus film in over 2,200 different language versions,” she continued.
“This woman found her language, watched it, and when she came to the scene of Jesus’ transfiguration on the Mount, she recognized the man from her dream. She was able to continue to Google and she found a church in her nation, which is mostly full of expatriates, but the pastor there was able to lead her to Christ and she’s now being discipled on how to use Jesus Film tools to reach people in her nation. So, God is doing it, he’s doing it digitally and he’s doing it in person,” Newell added.
As CBN News has reported, Middle Easterners encountering Jesus in dreams is common. To read the full article, click here