Hi Anthony. Sorry for the confusion. Currently, this series is in a "pre-release" stage where it is only available on Vimeo On Demand as a purchase (Here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ag3spiritandfire ). Here on AGTV, we're making 1 episode available per month for our subscribers. We have to do it this way now because of financial issues. This is explained on our website here: https://www.americangospelfilm.com/spirit--fire-ag3.html

Eventually, all of these episodes will be available here on AGTV, but not now.

I'm sorry for the confusion Cory. Much of your question is explained/answered here: https://www.americangospelfilm.com/spirit--fire-ag3.html

As you may know, we are not a non-profit organization with a group of donors supporting our work, giving us the ability to make things free. (But even Christian nonprofit ministries typically charge for films or series at first, before making them freely available- if they do at all).

We invest money into the documentaries we produce (which cost between $150k-$300k to produce a single film; and this is a docuseries, which is bigger than that), and need to a chance to at least make that money back, or we cannot continue working to produce more content.

The first season of AG3 (13 episodes) isn't finished yet, and we need the support to be able to pay people to finish working on it. So during this pre-release of AG3 (4 episodes), for the price of a lunch ($15.96) you can own 4 episodes, or 4 hours and 42 mins. of content (most people we've talked have said that they think that is extremely cheap) and help us recoup our costs and pay people who are working to edit, compose music, etc. If we were to make all of these freely available on AGTV right at the release, anyone could watch them with a free trial, and that would undercut our ability to recoup our costs and survive as a company. Typically when new films are released, they are not put on a streaming service for that very reason.

Our mistake, which likely has lead to this confusion is that we use AGTV to update our supporters on the progress of AG3, which gave the impression that it would be available here right away. The full series will eventually be available here, but not initially. I'm sorry that you subscribed thinking that you'd be able to see the content. We'd be happy to send you a way to have the series for free on Vimeo On Demand if you can't afford it (email [email protected]).

While it wasn't clear to me at the time, this is helpful information. I had just felt like I was doing my part by subscribing. And have supported this work and others like it (like donating to the Kickstarter for Cessationist) as best I've been able to. I'm thankful for faithful and orthodox resources that are well produced, like this content is.
I can afford it, but AG content was what I originally got on this streaming service for.
Yeah the trailers for the spirit and fire stuff probably shouldn't have been so platformed on here, but the "Theatrical release" and "open streaming later" analogy makes sense.
I'd rather you guys do what you need to do to keep making resources, than not make it. Keep at it!

Thanks for understanding Cory. FYI: The money we make from AGTV subscriber supporter barely covers our ability to:

1. Pay Vimeo OTT for having an app, and support team (this is the app engine we use)
2. Pay other Christian filmmakers and ministries whose content that we license and feature here.
3. Pay ourselves for the work (and we are basically a 2-man team).

In 2024 we also had a big loss of subscriber support, coupled with increased costs for AG3 post-production. This made all of this almost unsustainable. Thankfully the Lord has answered prayers and we've had some additional support recently come in to help us continue working. Because of that, we'll be making the first film free to everyone on Youtube soon.

If purchased on Vimeo (AG3), is there a way to watch on Roku or a Smart TV? I'm not seeing a Vimeo app. Or does it need to be viewed from a browser and cast to a TV?

Or can they be purchased from within the AGTV app?