Animated Stories from the New Testament

Animated Stories from the New Testament is a 1987-2004 video series produced by Nest Family Entertainment (formerly Family Entertainment and originally Family Entertainment Network), and Crest Animation Productions (Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd., Crest Communications Inc. and Quasar Cartoons Ltd. contributed some of the animation for this series), providing dramatic retelling of Bible stories.[1] The series was created to be a nondenominational Christian educational tool for parents, caregivers, and educators.[2]

The series features twenty-four stories from the New Testament, including many of the Parables of Jesus, the story of his birth, death and resurrection. The series concludes with two episodes about Paul the Apostle and his missionary journeys.

The series aims to be nonsectarian, and has been reviewed by an Advisory Board including Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (Founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews), Nathan Hatch (president of Wake Forest University and previously provost of the University of Notre Dame), Reg Grant (professor of pastoral ministries of the Dallas Theological Seminary) and Christian apologist, Ed Decker.

Originally released directly to video, the movies from The King is Born to The Ministry of Paul were re-released by Nest Entertainment on video, the movies from Jesus, the Son of God to Signs of the Times were released by Nest Entertainment on video, and the movies are now available on DVD. Nest Learning distributes the programs and several of the episodes are now on a limited broadcast run on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and BYUtv.

Over the years supplementary learning materials have been added to the series designed to help develop core curriculum knowledge and skills, and aiming to build what the series' creator regard as positive character traits. They are used in over 100,000 churches, as well as by home educators and families. In addition public schools and libraries in comparative religion curricula use them.

The series was directed by Richard Rich, the former Disney director who worked on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, and Mickey's Christmas Carol, and other animated educational series for churches, schools, libraries, home educators and families with Nest Family Entertainment, the Animated Hero Classics and Animated Stories from the Bible and the K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments with TLC Entertainment (who also produced McGee and Me!), as well with the series screenplay written by Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender's Game, with music by Lex de Azevedo, a composer known for producing the music for the LDS musical Saturday's Warrior, and (as mentioned before) with Hanho Heung-Up, the Korean studio known for providing animation.

The series composers were Lex de Azevedo and Kurt Bestor.