Home Beyond The Sun – A Movie Review

In Home Beyond The Sun, Jenna, a college student, travels to China to teach English in a boys academy.

Jenna was abandoned by her mother at birth and adopted when she was 2. Her adoptive parents are now dead.

While in China, she meets a group of girls from an orphanage for castaway girls. One little girl, Chu Lee, captures her heart.

In the opening scenes, when Chu Lee was born, her mother was running away with her, so the authorities wouldn’t take her baby away. While she was running, they shot her. The baby was saved, because of the Bible her mother had carried. The bullet lodged in the Bible, and didn’t reach the baby. The Chief of Police takes the Bible with the bullet in it and keeps it on his desk.

Jenna would like to adopt Chu Lee, but she is only a college student. Her Godfather, who is a Pastor and helps parents find kids to adopt, helps find parents for Chu Lee. But due to a series of events, Jenna can not get the adoption papers signed in China.

Jenna ends up getting arrested because of her Bible, and told by the Chief of Police to leave the country in 6 hours or end up in prison. Jenna decides she can’t leave China without Chu Lee. In her attempt to rescue Chu Lee, they both get arrested outside the orphanage. The Chief of Police has them put in his car.

He then takes Jenna to the airport, so she can leave the country, where he talks to her and Chu Lee.

“I’ve arrested a lot of Christians, but the night her mother died, something changed. For 8 years I’ve been reading this Bible. It’s words have led me to a new life, a new faith. I have believed in secret for a long time, now it’s time to live like a Christian”

He signs the adoption papers so Chu Lee can leave the country and go to her adoptive parents in the United States. Upon returning home, Jenna finds her birth parents.

I won’t tell you who they are. You’ll have to watch the movie. 🙂

Home Beyond The Sun is inspired by a true story. Sometimes its hard for our kids to understand that you can get arrested just for having a Bible in China. If you want to give your kids an idea of what it’s like for Christians in China, have them watch this movie. My whole family loved this movie, myself, my husband, and the kids, boy 14, girl 13, girl 11, and boy 9.

We have watched a few movies by Pure Flix on Christian television. We get several Christian television channels on our Glorystar Satellite. Every movie that we have watched has been fantastic. Quality movies with a good Christian message for the whole family. I highly recommend Pure Flix movies, our whole family loves them.

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