Media group aims to reach Gen Z with 'Fount Sessions'

A creative media organisation is hoping to reach Gen Z with a five-part evangelistic documentary series.

Fount Sessions has been created by UK-based Christian charity The Stream Collective. Jake Marthinet-Glover, Creative Lead, told en: “Reaching [UK young adults] with the gospel in a way that connects with their worldviews, and shows Jesus to be real, relevant and relatable when most have next-to-no understanding of the Bible, or a Christian worldview, is challenging.

“They exist in a middle space: hungry, but not knowing where the table is; open, but just as open to manifesting* and magic as they are to hearing about Jesus; interested, but not asking: ‘Is this true?’ but rather: ‘Does this work?’” Each episode details a testimony, told alongside an encounter with Jesus in John’s Gospel. So far, the first episode has been created, and was produced with the media habits of young adults in mind, and aims to be an evangelistic resource for Gen Z.

Marthinet-Glover continued: “The series is designed such that it might be used by individuals on their own or with friends, or by a church in a group context.

“The Fount Sessions doesn’t replace traditional seeker courses but meets young adults who are intrigued but not yet ready for a course where they are at, in both its content and its style.

“The series will then take young adults on a journey that begins in the digital but, we pray, ends in real world church community.”

The Stream Collective creates a range of evangelistic social media content. The first episode of the Fount Sessions is available now, and fundraising is underway to produce the rest of the series. Watch episode one here.

*“Manifesting” is the idea that a person can “will” something into being by the exercise of “mental powers” through “force” or belief and has become particularly popular – largely through the influence of social media, and particularly among the younger generations – in recent years. Search “manifest” on en’s website to read Kirsten Birkett’s comment piece on this issue, titled The dark side of manifesting your dreams.