“The Adventures of Ben Born Again & YellowDog” Christmas Special!

Based off my “Living Water” tract, The Adventures of Ben Born Again & YellowDog presents the gospel in a kid-friendly, understandable way. It’s designed to both entertain and educate, to edify and evangelize!

New Ben Born Again & YellowDog Episode (Christmas Special)

Ben Born Again and his buddy YellowDog are back for a very California Christmas!

This festive and fun-filled Christmas special is titled “Christmas on the Beach,” and it’s about the real reason for the season. Watch it exclusively on our Harvest+ app.

You’ll get to meet three new characters: Hopkins the cat (YellowDog’s mischievous nemesis), Willie (a Southern boy visiting Southern California for the holidays), and Summer (the first girl in the Ben universe).

The Story Behind Ben Born Again

In 1964, I created one of my first drawings. I made a Christmas card for my mother saying, “We wish you a merry Christmas.” This was around the time I started corresponding with Charles Schulz, and I was amazed he wrote me back!

My sole goal in life up to that point was to be a professional cartoonist. It’s all I wanted to do. 

Fast forward and I’m a brand new believer in my art class, and the teacher says the assignment for the month is to make a cartoon strip. Well, I did cartoon strips all the time! But now I was a believer, so I thought, “Is there a way to express my faith through artwork?” So I came up with this idea to do a cartoon strip called “Living Water.” 

This was actually my first venture into large-scale communication of my faith. Ultimately, over a million of these little books went all around the world. I was realizing that God could use this artwork that I’d worked on my whole life to tell a bigger story.

I developed a character in the “Living Water” tract, and this character eventually became a little guy named Ben Born Again. Ben has blonde hair and is probably a caricature of me. I decided to tell my stories through him. 

My Goal with This Animation

When people watch this animation, I hope it isn’t just kids that will like it, but people of all ages. I want to tell these little stories that have a deeper, spiritual meaning. I want to reach people with humor but then have something bigger to say.

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Through The Adventures of Ben Born Again & YellowDog, we’re taking animation and sort of turning it on its head with something not seen before: an animated cartoon that has a wholesome, good, family-oriented message—but even more, the message of the gospel.

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Find kid-friendly activities and more on benbornagain.org

“Living Water” tract