Mustard Seed Grant: The Urantia Book Video Channel

By Nugroho Widi, Indonesia

Editor’s Note: Nugroho Widi of Indonesia was a recipient of the second round of Mustard Seed Grant awards in 2023. He shares his completed project below. Nugroho Widi translated The Urantia Book into Indonesian. It was published online in 2020.

In late 2023, I received a Mustard Seed Grant to create the Urantia Revelation Channel of videos on YouTube. My mission was to explain The Urantia Book to young readers using popular language. I chose a documentary format with a tutorial mode, where I explain topics and respond to the many questions of viewers.

Although first created in English, the videos are mostly in Indonesian. There are 10 videos so far, and one has already reached 15,000 viewers! Most are still below 1,000 viewers, although if it is an interesting title, it can reach 2,000–3,000 after several months. While the videos haven’t gone viral, I already have 700 (mostly) Indonesian subscribers, most of whom are Muslim and Christian.

It takes a lot of effort to make a video tutorial of this book because we have to understand it in detail and approach it globally. The Urantia Book is systematic, deep, broad, and covers many subjects that have never been presented visually. I drew upon my past experience with creating videos, translating The Urantia Book into Indonesian, and making online presentations to groups of Indonesian readers for many years. The rise of artificial intelligence has been a breakthrough, enabling the creation of original stock images and videos for abstract, historical, morontial, and spiritual things that have never been created before. With the help of technology, it is possible for the Urantia Revelation to be presented vividly and boldly.

Thanks to Urantia Foundation and the Mustard Seed Grant Program, I am now spending time as a scriptwriter, editor, and artist. I hope readers will support my work. And as I remind my viewers, don't forget to click Like and Subscribe!