About SCREAM

Background & History of SCREAM Childrens Ministries

In 1988, Mark Manuel, a Youth Pastor in Atlanta, Georgia began a fledgling Youth Ministry called Impact Productions. The vision and focus was to assist the Church and the Body of Christ through creating and providing innovative youth ministry environments - all with the purpose . . . . To help young people/children know Christ and make Him known! Impact Productions soon became SCREAM Ministries Inc. and today, 30 years later, “SCREAM” has significantly expanded the ministry scope to include live interactive youth/family concerts, a pool of powerful Youth communicators from around the southeast, and Christian youth retreat weekends and monthly outreaches for children. As a result, SCREAM Ministries has presented the Gospel to over 250,000 young people over the last 3 decades.

S.C.R.E.A.M. stands for "Students Celebrating and Rejoicing Enthusiastically in the Almighty Messiah." Modeled after the ministry of “Young Life”, the goal was to pioneer and reach a new generation of young people … 3rd – 5th graders. This age bracket of Youth Ministry had been traditionally reached with a typical Sunday school format yet often lacked the enthusiasm and excitement of youth ministry programs that were typically reserved for Middle school or Senior High youth. The ministry team envisioned that these same high-energy and creative principles, when applied to children’s ministry, could launch a new frontier, revolutionizing the way we reach children with the truth of the Gospel. 

What started with 25 kids in a neighborhood garage quickly grew to over 100 kids within one month. The next year, SCREAM Children's Retreat weekends were born and the scope of impact continued to significantly expand! Over 100 churches across Georgia began participating in SCREAM Retreat weekends. Today, we continue to work with local churches to plant monthly SCREAM Children's Outreach across North Georgia. Churches and youth organizations interested in this interactive model for impacting young people in their community can collaborate with SCREAM Ministries to create a first-class, high-energy, life-changing, ongoing youth program that impacts kids with the Good News of Jesus!

Believing that there are numerous established ministries to reach the teen and adult contemporary world - SCREAM Ministries specifically targets music and ministry for children and families. 

Mark Manuel, SCREAM's CEO describes that there are spiritual themes everywhere, even in the least holy of circumstances. “I think songs about doing the laundry, growing up, or raising kids belong right alongside songs of worship and grace and other things. What makes the Gospel so important is that it works in a real-life context. Everything from the mundane to the spectacular is touched by the grace of God and is infused by the truth of the Gospel. As a communicator and songwriter for kids, I have always felt that the palate that I can paint from is a broad one." Mark believes that helping create a strong, solid spiritual foundation in the life of a young person, before they get to middle or high school, is a primary need in today's youth culture. "There is a need to compete with the huge influx of negative media impacting kid's lives today. SCREAM Kids events are tailor-made for each particular community outreach and include a mixture of high energy, full band-live music with interactive audience participation, live walk-on characters and skits, wild and crazy games, balloon art, air-brush face painting, nationally ranked pro-class stunt bike performers, Christian illusionists and Jugglers, all infused with powerful biblical talks and messages with real-life applications."

Mark’s songs about life, relationships, friends and family, and the wonderful years of youth always have a powerful impact. "To me, my primary goal is to communicate truthfully and creatively with young people. If I can communicate truthfully the Christian life, the message of the Gospel, and the always accompanying struggle and successes along the way, then ministry happens as a natural result of that.”