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HARTSROEP VAN DIE VADER

This book describes God's heart towards us - the heart of a loving father that calls for his sons and daughters to come home to him. The Father invites us to come know Him as a true Father, to learn about his heart for us, and what it means to be a son in his house.

In this book Christian Brochu shares about the Father's Heart from his own experience walking with the Father as an obedient son, from loving and raising his own four children in the ways of God and as his calling as a spiritual father to many sons and daughters in the nations.

CHRISTIAN BROCHU

MORNÉ THEUNISSEN

Written by

"Seuns, kom huis toe"

Translated by

(Afrikaans Translation of "The Father's Cry: Sons Come Home")

Father's Cry Docudrama Project

The Father’s Cry: Sons Come Home

Executive Producer: Christian Brochu
Producer/ Director: Morné Theunissen

Genre: Feature Documentary / Docudrama

Themes: Redemption, Fatherlessness, Gang Intervention, Faith

Logline

In the violent ganglands and overcrowded prisons of South Africa, an unlikely catalyst—a single book—sparks a chain reaction of forgiveness, transforming the nation’s most hardened gang leaders into "sons" seeking reconciliation.

Synopsis

For 18 years, missionaries Chris and Maxine Brochu have walked the volatile townships and prison corridors of South Africa, witnessing firsthand the devastating ripple effects of a fatherless generation. In a landscape dominated by gangsterism and cyclical violence, the "father’s cry" is often buried under the weight of a life sentence.

The Father’s Cry follows the extraordinary true stories of three men whose lives were fatefully interlinked long before they met: one a high-ranking prison captain and the other two, feared leaders of rival gangs. Once defined by conflict and the brutal hierarchy of the South African penal system, their lives were intersected by Chris’s seminal book, The Father’s Cry: Sons Come Home.

Through visceral testimonials and dramatic reflections, the film captures the moment the "light broke through"—a radical shift from the "holy fear" of a criminal past to the restorative peace of divine sonship. The documentary chronicles an eight-year journey of restoration, showing how these former enemies moved from the yard to the pulpit, ultimately healing broken relationships with their own biological fathers.

More than just a local story, The Father’s Cry serves as a global case study for a world struggling with crime and social collapse. From the townships of Cape Town to the favelas of Brazil, the film presents a profound solution to the crisis of identity: that the transformation of a nation begins with the restoration of the heart.